Pioneers — Histoire de la Tech

Unknown author — Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons 1791 — 1871 · UK

Charles Babbage

British mathematician and inventor, designer of programmable calculating engines

Alfred Edward Chalon — Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons 1815 — 1852 · UK

Ada Lovelace

British mathematician, pioneer of computer programming

Los Alamos National Laboratory — Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons 1903 — 1957 · US/HU

John von Neumann

Hungarian-American mathematician, architect of the stored-program computer

James S. Davis, U.S. Navy — Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons 1906 — 1992 · US

Grace Hopper

American computer scientist and naval officer, inventor of the compiler

Unknown author — Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons 1912 — 1954 · UK

Alan Turing

British mathematician, theoretical founder of computer science and cryptanalyst

Tekniska Museet — CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons 1916 — 2001 · USA

Claude Shannon

American mathematician and electrical engineer who founded information theory and invented the concept of the bit

SRI International — CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons 1925 — 2013 · USA

Douglas Engelbart

American engineer who invented the computer mouse and pioneered graphical user interfaces, hypertext, and computer-supported collaborative work

Hamilton Richards, UT Austin — CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons 1930 — 2002 · NL

Edsger W. Dijkstra

Dutch computer scientist who devised the shortest path algorithm, pioneered structured programming, and invented the semaphore synchronization primitive

Unknown author — CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons 1936 · USA

Margaret Hamilton

American software engineer who led the development of Apollo 11's onboard flight software at NASA and coined the term "software engineering"

Jacob Appelbaum — CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons 1938 · USA

Donald Knuth

American computer scientist, author of The Art of Computer Programming and creator of the TeX typesetting system, founding father of algorithm analysis

Denise Panyik-Dale — CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons 1941 — 2011 · US

Dennis Ritchie

American computer scientist, creator of the C language and co-author of UNIX

A.C. Diller — CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons 1943 · USA

Ken Thompson

American computer scientist who co-created Unix with Dennis Ritchie and invented the B programming language, precursor to C

Duncan Hull, Royal Society — CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons 1943 · USA

Vint Cerf

American computer scientist who co-authored the TCP/IP protocol with Bob Kahn and is widely regarded as a founding father of the Internet

Eviatar Bach (InverseHypercube) — CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons 1947 · UK/CA

Geoffrey Hinton

British-Canadian computer scientist, pioneer of deep neural networks

Gaurav Bhattacharya — CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons 1953 · USA

Richard Stallman

American programmer who founded the GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation, authored the GPL license, and established the free software movement