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| John Mauchly |
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Person | ENIAC |
John William Mauchly (August 30 1907 – January 8 1980) was an American physicist who, along with J. Presper Eckert, designed ENIAC, the first general purpose electronic digital computer, as well as EDVAC, BINAC and UNIVAC I, the first commercial...
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| J. Presper Eckert |
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Person | ENIAC |
\tJohn Adam Presper "Pres" Eckert Jr. (April 9, 1919 – June 3, 1995) was an American electrical engineer and computer pioneer. With John Mauchly he invented the first general-purpose electronic digital computer (ENIAC), presented the first course in...
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| Danny Hillis |
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Person | Connection Machine |
William Daniel "Danny" Hillis (born September 25, 1956, in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American inventor, entrepreneur, and author. He co-founded Thinking Machines Corporation, a company that developed the Connection Machine, a parallel supercomputer...
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| Author | Tinkertoy Tic-Tac-Toe Computer | |||
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| Ed Roberts |
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Physician | Altair 8800 |
Henry Edward Roberts (born 1942) was the founder and former president of Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS) which built the Altair 8800, one of the very first hobbyist personal computers.
He grew up in Miami, Florida, where he...
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| Philip Don Estridge | Person | IBM PC |
Philip Donald Estridge (June 23, 1937 - August 2, 1985), known as Don Estridge,led development of the original IBM Personal Computer (PC), and thus is known as "father of the IBM PC". His decisions dramatically changed the computer industry,...
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| Burrell Smith | Person | Macintosh |
Burrell Carver Smith (born December 16, 1955 in upstate New York) is an engineer who, while working at Apple Computer, designed the digital board for the original Macintosh. He was Apple employee #282, and was hired in February, 1979, initially as...
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| Bill Atkinson | Person | Macintosh |
Bill Atkinson (born 1951) is an American computer engineer and photographer. Atkinson worked at Apple Computer from 1978 to 1990. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of California, San Diego, where Apple Macintosh developer Jef...
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| Jef Raskin |
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Person | Macintosh |
Jef Raskin (March 9, 1943–February 26, 2005) was an American human-computer interface expert best-known for starting the Macintosh project for Apple Computer in the late 1970.
Raskin was born in New York City. He received degrees in mathematics (B...
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| Steve Jobs |
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Person | Macintosh |
Steven Paul Jobs (born February 24, 1955) is the co-founder and CEO of Apple and was the CEO of Pixar until its acquisition by Disney. He is currently the largest shareholder at Disney and a member of Disney's Board of Directors. He is considered a...
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| Jay Miner |
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Person | Amiga |
Jay Glenn Miner (May 31, 1932 - June 20, 1994), was a famous integrated circuit designer, known primarily for his work in multimedia chips and as the "father of the Amiga". He received a BS in EECS from UC Berkeley in 1959.
Miner started in the...
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| Atari |
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Company | Atari ST | |
| Computer Manufacturer/Brand | Atari Stacy | |||
| Computer Game Publisher | Atari MEGA STe | |||
| Computer Game Developer | Atari 1040 STf | |||
| Computer Game Platform | Atari 260 ST | |||
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| Nintendo |
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is a multinational corporation headquartered in Kyoto, Japan founded on September 23 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce handmade hanafuda cards. In the mid-twentieth century, the company tried several small niche businesses, such as a love hotel...
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| Sony |
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Company | PlayStation |
is a multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, and one of the world's largest media conglomerate with revenue of US$88.7 billion (as of 2008) based in Minato, Tokyo. Sony is one of the leading manufacturers of electronics...
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| Computer Manufacturer/Brand | PlayStation 2 | |||
| Camera Sensor Manufacturer | PlayStation 3 | |||
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| Konrad Zuse |
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Person | Z3 |
Konrad Zuse (; June 22, 1910 Berlin - December 18, 1995 Hünfeld) was a German engineer and computer pioneer. His greatest achievement was the world's first functional program-controlled Turing-complete computer, the Z3, in 1941 (the program was...
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| Deceased Person | Z4 | |||
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| Dr. Wendell Sander | Apple III | |||
| Tamiko Thiel | CM-2 | |||
| Jory Bell | Company Founder | OQO 02 | ||
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| Bud Tribble | Person | Macintosh |
Guy L. "Bud" Tribble, MD, PhD, is Vice President of Software Technology at Apple Inc. Tribble served as the manager of the original Macintosh software development team where he helped to design the Mac OS and user interface. He was among the...
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| Gunpei Yokoi |
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Person | Game & Watch |
Gunpei Yokoi, also spelled (September 10 1941–October 4 1997), was a long-time Nintendo employee, creator of the Game Boy, and producer of the long-running ''Metroid'' series.
Gunpei Yokoi began working at Nintendo in 1965, after graduating...
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| Deceased Person | Game Boy line | |||
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| Sir Maurice Wilkes | Processor Manufacturer | EDSAC | ||
| Alan Turing |
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Alan Mathison Turing, , (23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was an English mathematician, logician and cryptographer.
Turing is often considered to be the father of modern computer science. Turing provided an influential formalisation of the concept of...
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| Jonathan Ive |
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Person | MacBook Pro |
Jonathan Paul Ive CBE (born February, 1967) is a British designer and the Senior Vice President of Industrial Design at Apple Inc. He is internationally renowned as the principal designer of the iMac, the iPod and the iPhone.
Ive was raised in...
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| Kazuhiko Nishi | Person | MSX |
worked for Microsoft during the 1980s as Vice President of the Far East operations.
In 1986, Kazuhiko Nishi left Microsoft to devote himself mostly to ASCII Corporation to develop the MSX standard together with NEC executive Kazuya Watanabe. Today...
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| Steve Chen | Company Founder | Cray X-MP |
Steve Chen (; pinyin: Chén Shìqīng) (born 1944 in Taiwan) is a computer engineer and pioneer. Chen is the founder and CEO of , a developer of supercomputing blade systems, based in Shenzhen, China.
Chen holds a M.S. from Villanova University and a...
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| Brian Silverman | Tinkertoy Tic-Tac-Toe Computer | |||
| Tom Kilburn | Person | Manchester Mark I |
Tom Kilburn (August 11, 1921 - January 17, 2001) was an English engineer. With Freddie Williams he worked on the Williams Tube and the first stored-program computer in the world, the Manchester Mark I, while working at the University of Manchester.
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| Deceased Person | Small-Scale Experimental Machine | |||
| Frederic Calland Williams | Person | Manchester Mark I |
\tSir Frederic Calland Williams (June 26, 1911. Stockport – August 11 1977. Manchester), known as 'Freddie Williams', was an English engineer.
Williams attended the University of Manchester, and received his doctorate in 1936 at the University of...
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| Deceased Person | Small-Scale Experimental Machine | |||
| Feng-hsiung Hsu |
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Person | Deep Blue |
Feng-hsiung Hsu (; Cantonese: Heoi2 Fung1 Hung4) (nicknamed Crazy Bird) is a computer scientist and the author of the book Behind Deep Blue: Building the Computer that Defeated the World Chess Champion. His work led to the creation of the Deep...
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| John Sculley |
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Person | Apple Newton |
John Sculley (born April 6 1939) is an American businessman. Sculley was vice-president (1970-1977) and president of PepsiCo (1977-1983), until he became CEO of Apple on April 8 1983, a position he held until leaving in 1993. Sculley is currently a...
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| Clifford Berry | Person | Atanasoff-Berry Computer |
Clifford Edward Berry (April 19, 1918 – October 30, 1963) helped John Vincent Atanasoff create the first digital electronic computer in 1939, the Atanasoff–Berry Computer (ABC).
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