Tim Berners-Lee

World Wide Web

The web, which was created by Tim Berners-Lee on 12 March 1989, is facing major
challenges, its inventor warned.

Berners-Lee initially proposed a way to share documents between the research

communities at CERN. From this proposal, which was described as “vague but
interesting”, he developed the HTTP and HTML protocols.
Charles Babbage

Analytical Engine

Invention of analytical engine in 1837 with parts like ALU(Arithmetic Logic Unit), flow
of control and basic memory, made him the father of computer. His thoughts were
noble and innovative, but his economic conditions didn’t support his making.
Unfortunately, he couldn’t get sponsors. This analytical engine served as the base
for our modern computer.
Margaret Hamilton

Margaret Hamilton standing next to pile of codes she wrote, that took first humans to
moon. & Katie Bouman who developed algorithm for the 1st image of b-hole with the
stack of hard drives containing all the data.
Alan Turing – Automatic Computer Engine
(ACE)

The Automatic Computing Engine (ACE) was a British early electronic serial stored-
program computer design by Alan Turing. Turing completed the ambitious design in
late 1945, having had experience in the years prior with the secret Colossus
computer at Bletchley Park.

The ACE was not built, but a smaller version, the Pilot ACE, was constructed at the
National Physical Laboratory and became operational in 1950. A larger
implementation of the ACE design was the MOSAIC computer which became
operational in 1955. ACE also led to the Bendix G-15 and other computers.
Linus Torvalds – Linux Kernel

Linux
We work with binaries daily, yet we understand so little about them. By binaries, I
mean the executable files that you run daily, right from your command line tools to
full-fledged applications.

Linux provides a rich set of tools that makes analyzing binaries a breeze! Whatever
might be your job role, if you are working on Linux, knowing the basics about these
tools will help you understand your system better.
Alan Kay

Dyna Book

Alan Kay’s vision of the DynaBook does not exist. There are comparable future
models – Kay says that Microsoft’s tablet PC is the first similar computer.

In 1985 Toshiba launched its Toshiba T1100 as the first mass-market laptop PC. In
1989, they began using the brand name “DynaBook.” Later, Sharp Corporation
bought majority ownership in Toshiba. You can buy Dynabook laptops on the Sharp
Corporation website.
Dennis Ritchie

C Programming
Creation of the UNIX operating system and the C programming
language were pivotal developments in the progress of computer
science. Today, 50 years after its beginnings, UNIX and UNIX-like
systems continue to run machinery from supercomputers to
smartphones.
Anders Hejlsberg

Turbo Pascal Language

It was one of the first ever Integrated Development Environments. Back then, you'd
use an editor to type code. Save to a file. Run a command line compiler. Duly note
the lines of errors in the output. Open the editor and move to that line. Save. Compile
again. And you know, you could run a program at a time if this was MS DOS. Now
finally the program compiles and you can run a debugger. Another separate tool.
The ability to have a single tool for writing code, compiling, and debugging without
existing from the tool was not just a great idea. It was a huge time saver.
Konrad Zuse

Z1
The Z1 was a motor-driven mechanical computer designed by Konrad Zuse from
1936 to 1937, which he built in his parents' home from 1936 to 1938. [1][2] It was a
binary electrically driven mechanical calculator with limited programmability, reading
instructions from punched celluloid film.
The “Z1” was the first freely programmable computer in the world that used Boolean
logic and binary floating-point numbers, however, it was unreliable in operation. [3][4] It
was completed in 1938 and financed completely by private funds. This computer was
destroyed in the bombardment of Berlin in December 1943, during World War II,
together with all construction plans.
 iMAc

iMac (1998) + iPod (2001) + iPad (2010): These three devices fall into the same
category. With them, the Californian “tweaker” proposed reinventing three devices
that seemed to him to be stagnant and/or useless: the personal computer, the MP3
player and the tablet PC. In all three cases his strategy was the same. He led teams
of talented designers and software engineers and had them invent more and more
prototypes. Then he eliminated the vast majority until he was left with one that did
not upset him and, from that prototype, he had them start over, once again refining,
looking for simplicity and beauty.