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Famous Computer Scientists

• Steve Wozniak(1950-) & Stephen Jobs(1955-)

Establed Apple Corporation

• James Gosling (1955-)

Inventor of Java

• Linus Torvalds ( 1969 - )

Creator of the Linux operating system

• Babbage, Charles (1791-1871)
  

  Designer of several Difference Engines, he prepared many plans for Analystical Engines.

• George Boole (1815-1864)
  

  Boolean algebra has wide applications in telephone switching and the design of modern computers. Boole's work was a fundamental step in today's computer revolution.

• Herman Hollerith (1860-1929)
  

  Herman Hollerith invented and developed a punch-card tabulation machine system that revolutionized statistical computation.

• (Admiral) Grace Murray Hopper (1906-1992 )
  

  She was one of the first software engineers and her best-known contribution to computing was the invention of the compiler

• Ada Byron, Lady Lovelace (1815 - 1852)
  

  She is often considered to be the first computer programmer.

• Benoit Mandelbrot (1924- )
  

  He is considered to be the father of Fractal Geometry.

• John von Neumann (1903-1957)
  

  Brilliant mathematician, synthesizer, and promoter of the stored program concept.

• Alan Mathison Turing (1912-1954)
  

  Founder of computer science, mathematician, philosopher, codebreaker.