Charles Babbage
Born in 1791
Charles Babbage was an English polymath. A mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer, Babbage originated the concept of a digital programmable computer.
Ada Lovelace
Born in 1815
Ada Lovelace was an English mathematician and writer, chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. She was the first to recognise that the machine had applications beyond pure calculation.
Grace Hopper
Born in 1906
Grace Hopper was an American computer scientist, mathematician, and United States Navy rear admiral. One of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, she was a pioneer of computer programming who invented the first compiler.
William Shockley
Born in 1910
William Shockley was an American inventor, physicist, and eugenicist. He was the manager of a research group at Bell Labs that included John Bardeen and Walter Brattain. The three scientists were jointly awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for "their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect".
Gordon Moore
Born in 1929
was an American businessman, engineer, and the co-founder and emeritus chairman of Intel Corporation. He proposed Moore's law which makes the observation that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit (IC) doubles about every two years.
Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs
Born in 1950 and 1955
Apple Computer, Inc. was founded on April 1, 1976, by college dropouts Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, who brought to the new company a vision of changing the way people viewed computers. Jobs and Wozniak wanted to make computers small enough for people to have them in their homes or offices.
Bill Gates
Born in 1955
Bill Gates is an American business magnate, investor, philanthropist, and writer best known for co-founding the software giant Microsoft.
Kevin Mitnick
Born in 1963
Kevin Mitnick was an American computer security consultant, author, and convicted hacker. He is best known for his high-profile 1995 arrest and five years in prison for various computer and communications-related crimes.
Rich Skrenta
Born in 1967
Rich Skrenta is an American computer programmer and Silicon Valley entrepreneur who created the web search engine blekko.
Linus Torvalds
Born in 1969
Linus Torvalds is a Finnish software engineer who is the creator and lead developer of the Linux kernel, used by Linux distributions like Debian, Arch and Android. He also created the distributed version control system Git.
Larry Page and Sergey Brin
Born in 1973 and 1973
Larry Page and Sergey Brin are the CEO and president of Google's parent company, Alphabet, respectively.
Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim
Born in 1977, 1978 and 1979
Chad Hurley is an American webmaster and businessman who serves as the advisor and former chief executive officer (CEO) of YouTube. He also co-founded MixBit. In October 2006, he and Steve Chen sold YouTube for $1.65 billion to Google.
Steve Chen is a Taiwanese-born American Internet entrepreneur who is one of the co-founders and previous chief technology officer of the American video-sharing website YouTube. After having co-founded the company AVOS Systems, Inc.
Jawed Karim is an American software engineer and Internet entrepreneur. He is a co-founder of YouTube and the first person to upload a video to the site. The site's inaugural video, "Me at the zoo", uploaded on April 23, 2005, has been viewed over 287 million times as of October 1, 2023.
Mark Zuckerberg
Born in 1984
Mark Zuckerberg is an American business magnate, computer programmer, internet entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He co-founded the social media service Facebook and its parent company Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook, Inc.), of which he is executive chairman, chief executive officer and controlling shareholder.