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List of pioneers in computer science - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article presents a list of individuals who helped in the creation, development and imagining of what computers and electronics could do. ~ Item marks with a tilde are circa dates
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Perhaps her best-known contribution to computing was the invention of the compiler, the intermediate program that translates English language instructions into the language of the target computer.
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Computer Pioneer Award: Charter Recipients ... A bronze medal is presented for significant contributions to concepts and developments in the electronic computer field which have clearly advanced the state of the art in computing. The contributions must have taken place fifteen or more years earlier. ... Computer Pioneer Recipients...
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harles Babbage (1791-1871), computer pioneer, designed the first automatic computing engines. He invented computers but failed to build them. The first complete Babbage Engine was completed in London in 2002, 153 years after it was designed.
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He died on January 17th 2001 in Manchester after twenty years of quiet retirement, in the city where he made such a great contribution to the first 25 years of computer development.
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The conviction meant Turing, a pioneer of modern computing, losing his security clearance and being unable to continue his work. In 1954 he killed himself at the age of 41. ... Chemically castrated ... computer pioneer Alan Turing.
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