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Compuet Pioneers
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Ada Lovelace
A mathmetician and a Computer Engineer -
Reynold B. Johnson
Awarded National Medal of Technology -
grace Hopper
American computer scientist that was a Navy Rear Admiral -
Alan Turing
Created Universal Turing Machine, died of cyanide poisoning -
Jean Bartik
Went into war, part of Gartner Group and Auerbach -
Jean Sammet
Group leader of open shop, Age 87 currentley -
Adam Osborne
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_OsborneDied in India, introduced first portable computer -
Alan Kay
Worked on windowing graphical user interface design -
Steve Jobs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_JobsFounded Apple, Started in his Garage, His mom called it Apple as a joke -
James Gosling
Father of Java and rceived The order of Canada -
Bill Gates
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_GatesFounded Microsoft, created IBM, released first windows in 1990 -
Linus Torvalds
Holds Linus trademark, 2014 recipient of the IEEE Computer Society's Computer Pioneer Award, and named after an asteroid -
Marissa Mayer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marissa_MayerPresident and Ceo of Yahoo, also went to Stanford University -
Gary Thuerk
Father of SPAM, father of e-marketing -
Nulan Bushnell
Invented Pong, Lost money trying to make a robot
