History

With one eye to history, and one eye to the present, think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Noteworthy Persons

Even Beethoven studied Handel.

Leibniz

1646 - 1716

Charles Babbage

1791 - 1871

George Boole

1815 - 1864

Gottlob Frege

1848 - 1925

Howard Aiken

1900 - 1973

John Atanasoff

1903 - 1995

Alonzo Church

1903 - 1995

Grace Hopper

1906 - 1992

John Mauchly

1907 - 1980

Konrad Zuse

1910 - 1995

Alan Turing

1912 - 1954

Claude Shannon

1916 - 2001

John Cocke

1925 - 2002

Kenneth Colby

1920 - 2001

Gene Amdahl

1922 - 2015

Edgar Codd

1923 - 2003

Morton Astrahan

1924 - 1988

Papers

John Backus

1924 - 2007

John McCarthy

1927 - 2011

Marvin Minsky

1927 - 2016

Edsger Dijkstra

1930 - 2002

Tony Hoare

1934

Bob Kahn

1938

Alan Kay

1940

Ed Roberts

1941 - 2010

Dennis Ritchie

1941 - 2011

Vint Cerf

1943

Jon Postel

1943 - 1998

Jim Gray

1944 - 2007

Vinod Dham

1950

Larry Page

1973