Computer pioneers whose contributions in the theoretical, technical and/or commercial fields of computing are outstanding and highly significant in the further development of computer-related disciplines.

List of notable computer pioneers

• Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, OM, KBE Inventor of the World Wide Web
• Vannevar Bush, American engineer and science administrator; best-known for his work on analog computing.
• Richard Courant, German American mathematician; founder of the NYU Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.
• Kurt Gödel, Austrian logician, mathematician and philosopher; best-known for his two incompleteness theorems.
• Grace Hopper, American computer scientist and United States Navy officer; developed the first A-O compiler, precursor to COBOL.
• Steve Jobs, American businessman, designer and inventor; best-known as the co-founder Apple Inc.
• Gottfried Leibniz, German mathematician and philosopher; invented the Leibniz wheel, used in the arithmometer, the first mass-produced mechanical calculator.
• Marvin Minsky, American cognitive scientist in artificial intelligence; co-founder of MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
• John von Neumann, Hungarian American mathematician and polymath; pioneer of the application of operator theory to quantum mechanics.
• Robert Noyce, American physicist and mathematian, nicknamed "the Mayor of Silicon Valley"; co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel.
• Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist; creator of the C programming language and co-creator of the Unix operating system.
• Alan Turing, English mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist; played a significant role in the creation of the modern computer.

External links

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Computer_pioneers
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pioneers_in_computer_science
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_computer_scientists