1. Aryabhatt was
ancient India`s greatest mathematician and expert in Astronomy. He introduced
the concept of ZERO (0) without which the computer technology would be
not-existent
2. Charles Babbage, a
British mathematician is regarded as the Father of Computing.
3. Sir Christopher Latham
Sholes is regarded as the inventor of Keyboard layout.
4. Lady Ada Lovelace is
regarded as the first
computer programmer.
5. Sir John Mauchly and Sir J.P. Eckert invented ENIAC - the
first general purpose electronic digital computer.
6. In
1938, Chestor
Carlson invented dry printing process called
a Xerox, the
foundation technology for laser printer.
7. Dr. Robert H. Dennard, a
fellow at the IBM, created the DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory) in 1966.
8. Dr. Engelbert was
the inventor of Mouse.
9. Hewlett-Packard, the famous printer company, was started by Mr. William Hewlett and Mr. David Packard in Mr. William Hewlett`s garage with a capital investment of $538.
10. Logo was introduced by Professor Seymour Papert.
11. James T. Russell invented digital Compact Disk (CD) in 1968 However, the compact disk came into popularity when it was mass manufactured by Philips in 1980.
12. Basic was developed by Sir John Kemeny and Sir Thomas Kurtz.
13. Intel was formed by Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore.
14. Tim Berners-Lee is the founder of the World Wide Web.
15. Larry Page and Sergey Brin are the founders of Google.
16. Jerry Yang and David Filo are the founders of yahoo.com.
17. Dr. Martin Cooper, a former general manager at Motorola, is the inventor of the first portable handset (Mobile phone).
18. Daniel S. Bricklin is the co-creator, with Bob Frankston, of the Visicalc spreadsheet program. Visicalc is a compressed form of the phrase “Visible Calculator”.
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