Historical Technical Figures

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Published Dec 29, 2022
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Historical technical figures paved the way for new technologies to eventually be brought into our every day lives. Their pivotal impact on technological advances affects us to this day.

Below are some notable historical technical figures:

Historical Technical Figures

Aaron Swartz
Aaron Swartz was an American programmer, writer, entrepreneur, and internet activist involved in the development of the RSS web feed format, Markdown language, Creative Commons organization, and Python web framework web.py.
Ada Lovelace
Ada Lovelace was an English writer and mathematician and is often considered to be the first computer programmer. Lovelace is known for her work on the first programmable general-purpose computer.
Alan Turing
Alan Turing was an English mathematician and computer scientist best known for his work on algorithms, computation, and creating the foundations of theoretical computer science through the development of the Turing machine.
Bjarne Stroustrup
Bjarne Stroustrup is a Danish computer scientist and principal designer of C++, an extension of the C programming language.
Dennis Ritchie
Dennis Ritchie was an American computer scientist, the creator of the computer programming language C, and co-creator of the Unix operating system.
Gary Kildall
Gary Kildall was an American computer scientist, entrepreneur, and technology educator who did pioneering work on operating systems and compilers.
Gordon Moore
Gordon Moore is the co-founder of Intel Corporation, the largest manufacturer of various computer parts like microprocessors for companies like Acer, Lenovo, HP, and Dell. He was also the primary advocate for Moores Law.
Grace Hopper
Grace Hopper was an American computer scientist who led a decorated career in the United States Navy, becoming one of the first female rear admirals in U.S. history.
John Carmack
John Carmack is an American video game developer, and the lead programmer of Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, and Quake.
Ken Thompson
Ken Thompson is an American computer scientist, known for creating many significant works in the field, such as the Unix and Plan 9 operating systems, the B (1969) and Go (2019) programming languages, the grep command line utility, and UTF-8 encoding.
Linus Torvalds
Linus Torvalds is a Finnish-American computer scientist, the creator of the operating system kernel Linux, and the distributed revision control system, Git.
Tim Berners-Lee
Sir Tim Berners-Lee is an English computer scientist popularly known for his development of the World Wide Web in 1989.
Yukihiro Matsumoto
Yukihiro Matsumoto is a Japanese software programmer and computer scientist widely known as the chief designer of the Ruby programming language.

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