GREAT PERSONALITIES of IT

FATHER OF COMPUTER SCIENCE:- George Boole

# Programming #
BASIC:-Bill Gates {CEO of MICROSOFT}.
BCPL:-Martin Richards {at BELL LABS) [1967].
B:-Ken Thompson {at BELL LABS} [1970].
C:-Dennis Ritchie {at BELL LABS} [1972].
C++:-Bjarne Stroustrup {at BELL LABS} [1983].
COBOL: - Grace Hooper. [1958]
FLOWMATI: - {First H.L.Language}:-Grace Hooper.
FORTRAN:-John Backus [1954].
JAVA:-James Gosling, Patrick Naughton (at SUN MICROSYSTEMS).

$ Operating System $
86-DOS:-Tim Patterson.
WINDOWS:-Bill Gates, Paul Allen {Now Owners of MICROSOFT}.
UNIX:-Dennis Ritchie, Ken Thompson {at BELL LABS}.
LINUX: - Linus Torvalds.

Ω Electric Ω
ELECTRICITY: -Benjamin Franklin
First ELECTRICAL MOTOR: - Michael Faraday.
First P-N Junction DIODE:-Russell Shoemaker Ohl. {He also invented Silicon Photodiode}
First TRANSISTOR:-Dr. John Bardeen, Dr. Walter Brattain, Dr. William Shockley {at BELL LABS} [1956].
First IC: - 1) Jack S. Kilby (in GERMANIUM) {at TEXAS INSTRUMENTS}. [February 1959]
2) Robert N. Noyce (in SILICON) {Owner of FAIRCHILD} [July 1959].
First MICROPROCESSOR {µP} (4004):- Marcian E. Hoff [November 15, 1971].

® IT Giants ®
AMD {Advanced Micro Devices}:-Jerry Sanders, John Carey and six others [May 1, 1969].
APPLE: - Steven P. Jobs, Stephen Gray Wozniak [April 1, 1976].
AT&T Labs: - Graham Bell.
CDC: - Seymour Cray [1964].

CISCO: - Leonard Bosack, Sandy Lerner [1984].
COMPAQ: - Joseph Rodney Canion, Jim Harris, Bill Murto [1982].
DEC: - Kenneth Olsen {first MINICOMPUTER} [1957].
HP: - William Bill Hewlett, David Packard [1939].
INTEL (INTegrated ELectronics):-Robert N. Noyce, Gordan Moore, Andy Groove. [July 18, 1968]
MICROSOFT: - Bill Gates, Paul Allen [1975].
MIPS: - John Hennessy.
MOTOROLA: - Paul V. Galvin [1947].
NETSCAPE: - Jim Clark, Marc Anderson.
SEAGATE Technologies: - Alan F. Shugart (at IBM) {he also leaded the team for the invention of Floppy} [1979].
SUN MICROSYSTEMS: -Vinod Khosla, Bill Joy [1982].
WESTERN ELECTRONICS (Earlier Gray & Barton):- Elisha Gray, Enos N. Barton [1869].


Extras:-
ENIAC: - John Mauchly, J. Presper Eckert.
PUNCHED CARD: - Herman Hollerith {he also invented Tabulating Machine Company}
MOUSE: - Douglas C. Engelbert.
FLOPPY (31/2): -Sony [1981].

Remember:-
1. AT&T and Western Electronics merged together to form Bell Telephone Laboratories.
2. Tabulating Machine Company after some merges became International Business Machines {I.B.M}