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John Napier
John Napier is best known as the inventor of logarithms. -
Blaise Pascal
He invented the mechanical calculator. -
Charles Babbage
Babbage is credited with inventing the first mechanical computer -
Augusta Ada Byron
the world's first computer programmer -
Tommy Flowers
Flowers designed Colossus, the world's first programmable electronic computer -
Alan Turing
He was highly influential in the development of computer science, giving a formalisation of the concepts of "algorithm" and "computation" with the Turing machine, -
Howard H. Aiken
was a pioneer in computing, being the original conceptual designer behind IBM's Harvard Mark I computer. -
Bill Gates
Gates is the former chief executive and current chairman of Microsoft, the world’s largest personal-computer software company, which he co-founded with Paul Allen. -
Jack Kilby
is the inventor of the handheld calculator and the thermal printer. -
Steve Jobs
was an American entrepreneur, marketer, and inventor, who was the co-founder chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc. -
Larry Page
is an American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur who is the co-founder of Google, alongside Sergey Brin. -
Andy Rubin
is the co-founder and former CEO of both Danger Inc. and Android Inc.