People, Places, and Things in Computer History

 

 

ComputerWorld Lists

Fathers of Computing

The top network inventors of all time

The 10 IT People Who Mattered in the Past 40 Years (but You May Not Know Why)

Computerworld's list: 40 technology innovators, and they're all under 40

Unsung innovators: 10 people who shaped the computer industry

The Top 10 Products of the Past 40 Years

The 10 Biggest Technology Flops of the Past 40 Years

'80 Mbytes of storage for under $12k!' and other ad favorites through the years

Tidbits and Timelines From the Past 40 Years

 

Babbage Difference Engine #2 talk by Doron Swade

Difference engine - Building A Calculating Machine Using LEGO® Pieces

The Analytical Engine

William, Lord King

 The Virtual Museum of Manchester Computing

Calculating Machines

A

Ada Lovelace

Aiken, Howard               Answers.com

Analogue Computer

Analytical Engine

Antikythera Mechanism (earlist known computer)

Antonelli, Kay McNulty

Atanasoff-Berry Computer*

Atlas

Avram, Henriette

Arithmometer

Atanasoff, John Vincent*

Autocode

B

Babbage, Charles

Bennett, John Makepeace

BINAC*

Blanch, Gertrude

Bletchley Park

• Bletchley Park (Official Site)
• Bletchley Park Jewels - The People of Bletchley Park (including link to women in computing)
• HUT 6 - experience story
• "Decoding Nazi Secrets" PBS transcripts
• Crack the Ciphers [sample ciphers] (PBS)
•  

BOMBE*

Boole, George

Bouchon, Basile and Jean-Baptiste Falcon - developed the punch card

Bricklin, Dan

Burks, Alice

Bush, Vannevar 

C

CALDIC

Cerf, Vint*

Clarke, Edith

Colossus*

Comptometer

D

Difference Engine

Differential analyser

Dijkstra, Edsger

E

 

Eckert, J. Presper*

EDSAC*

EDVAC*

ENIAC*

Enigma Machine*

Enigma, Cryptanalysis of*

Engelbart, Douglas*

F

 

Felt, Dorr Eugene - The Comptometer

Flowers, Tommy*

Forsythe, Alexandra

Fox, Margaret A.

G

Gödel, Kurt

Goldberg, Emmanuel

Goldstine, Adele

Granville, Evelyn Boyd

H

Herman Hollerith   & (from MacTutor History)

Hewlett, William Reddington*

Betty Holberton

Hopper, Grace

Hoover, Erna Schneider

I

 

ILLIAC

Integrated circuit

Intel

Iverson, Kenneth E.

J

Jacquard, Joseph Marie

Jacquard Loom

K

Kahn, Bob*

Alan Kay*

L

 

Lake, Clair D. - IBM project director for Mark I

Leibniz, Gottfried

LEO (Wikipedia)*

LEO (Lyons Electronic Office)*

Licklider, J. C. R.*

LINC

Lorenz

M

Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine*

Mark 1*

• The IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator
• book by Aiken and Hopper - design details

 

 

Mauchly, John*

Meltzer, Marlyn

 

The Millionaire (calculating device)

Moore, Charles H.*

N

Naur, Peter

Nelson, Ted

O

Osborne, Adam

P

 

 

Packard, David*

Péter, Rósa

Peddle, Chuck

Perlman, Radia

Pilot ACE

James Powers (competitor to Herman Hollerith)

Q

R

RADAC

Raskin, Jef

Robinson, Heath - codebreaking machine*

S

Schickard, Wilhelm

Scheutz, Per Georg

SEAC

Sinclair, Clive*

Slide rule

Sutherland, Ivan*

T

 

 

Taylor, Robert - computer scientist*

Transistor

Teitelbaum, Ruth

Thomas de Colmar, Charles Xavier

Turing, Alan*

Turing Machine*

U

Uncapher, Keith

UNIVAC I

UTEC

V

 

 

Vacuum tube*

von Neumann, John*

Vaucanson, Jacques de (developed the automaton)

W

 

Thomas J. Watson

Thomas J. Watson Jr.

Web 2.0*

West Coast Computer Faire

Winters, Joan Margaret

Wiberg, Martin

Wilkes, Maurice Vincent*

Williams, Frederic Calland

Williams Tube (also Manchester Baby and Mark I)*

Wirth, Niklaus*

Woods, Mary Lee

X

 

 

Xerox Alto*

Xerox PARC*

Y

Yourdon, Edward*

 

Z

Zemanek, Heinz

Zuse, Konrad*

Z3*