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Pioneer of mainframe computing; designed IBM 704; chief architect of IBM System/360. [4] [5] Formulated Amdahl's law; also worked on IBM 709 and IBM 7030 Stretch. [6] 1939 Atanasoff, John: Built the first electronic digital computer, the Atanasoff–Berry Computer, though it was neither programmable nor Turing-complete. 1822, 1837 Babbage, Charles
Amir Pnueli – temporal logic; Willem van der Poel – computer graphics, robotics, geographic information systems, imaging, multimedia, virtual environments, games; Robin Popplestone – COWSEL (renamed POP-1), POP-2, POP-11 languages, Poplog IDE; Freddy II robot; Cicely Popplewell (1920–1995) – British software engineer in 1960s; Emil ...
Yanhong Annie Liu – programming languages, algorithms, program design, program optimization, software systems, optimizing, analysis, and transformations, intelligent systems, distributed computing, computer security, IFIP WG 2.1 member; Robert Love – Linux kernel developer; Ada Lovelace – first programmer (of Charles Babbages' Analytical ...
The history of computer science began long before the modern discipline of computer science, usually appearing in forms like mathematics or physics. Developments in previous centuries alluded to the discipline that we now know as computer science. [ 1 ]
2012. Made fellow of the Computer History Museum "for his pioneering work in artificial intelligence and expert systems." [22] 2013. IEEE Computer Society Computer Pioneer Award for "pioneering work in Artificial Intelligence, including development of the basic principles and methods of knowledge-based systems and their practical applications".
The History of Computing by J.A.N. Lee "Things that Count: the rise and fall of calculators" The History of Computing Project; SIG on Computers, Information and Society of the Society for the History of Technology; The Modern History of Computing; A Chronology of Digital Computing Machines (to 1952) by Mark Brader
Allen Newell (March 19, 1927 – July 19, 1992) was an American researcher in computer science and cognitive psychology at the RAND Corporation and at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, Tepper School of Business, and Department of Psychology.
Computer Pioneers. IEEE. ISBN 0-8186-6357-X. (the two Lee books are likely the same book, one printed in the U.S, the other in England) Lee, J.A.N. (1995). International Biographical Dictionary of Computer Pioneers. Routledge. ISBN 1-884964-47-8. Mims, Forrest M., III (1986). Siliconnections: Coming of Age in the Electronic Era.