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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 16 December 2024. English mathematician, philosopher, and engineer (1791–1871) "Babbage" redirects here. For other uses, see Babbage (disambiguation). Charles Babbage KH FRS Babbage in 1860 Born (1791-12-26) 26 December 1791 London, England Died 18 October 1871 (1871-10-18) (aged 79) Marylebone, London ...
Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-01310-9. Marx, Christy (2003). Grace Hopper: the first woman to program the first computer in the United States. Women hall of famers in mathematics and science. New York: Rosen Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-8239-3877-3. Norman, Rebecca ...
Brian Kernighan, co-author of the first book on the C programming language with Dennis Ritchie, coauthor of the AWK and AMPL programming languages. Chuck Moore, inventor of Forth, the first concatenative programming language, and a prominent name in stack machine microprocessor design. Chris Lattner, creator of Swift, Mojo and LLVM.
Doron Swade has said that Ada only published the first computer program instead of actually writing it, but agrees that she was the only person to see the potential of the analytical engine as a machine capable of expressing entities other than quantities. [92] In his book, Idea Makers, Stephen Wolfram defends Lovelace's contributions. While ...
The Difference Engine: Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer. Viking. ISBN 0-670-91020-1. Toole, Betty Alexandra, ed. (1998). Ada, the Enchantress of Numbers:A Selection from the Letters of Lord Byron's Daughter and Her Description of the First Computer. Critical Connection. ISBN 0-912647-09-4. Toole, Betty Alexandra, ed ...
none (unique language) 1943–46 ENIAC coding system : John von Neumann, John Mauchly, J. Presper Eckert and Herman Goldstine after Alan Turing. The first programmers of ENIAC were Kay McNulty, Betty Jennings, Betty Snyder, Marlyn Meltzer, Fran Bilas, and Ruth Lichterman. none (unique language) 1946 ENIAC Short Code
With John Pinkerton, developed the LEO computer, the first business computer, for J. Lyons and Co: 1974 Catmull, Edwin: Computer generated imagery (CGI) and 3D graphics pioneer who developed texture mapping, the Catmull-Clark subdivision surface algorithm (with Jim Clark), and the Catmull-Rom spline (with Raphael Rom.
Konrad Zuse was born in Berlin on 22 June 1910. [21] In 1912, his family moved to East Prussian Braunsberg (now Braniewo in Poland), where his father was a postal clerk.Zuse attended the Collegium Hosianum in Braunsberg, and in 1923, the family moved to Hoyerswerda, where he passed his Abitur in 1928, qualifying him to enter university.