Computer Science: Innovators
Computer
Science: Innovators
The following table illustrates the names of major innovators
with their work and year –
|
Person |
Achievement |
Period/Year |
|
Panini |
Panini, the
and cient Indian Sanskrit linguist, grammarian, and honor able scholar has systemized and mentioned the
technical use of metarules, tranformations, and recursions, in his book ‘Ashtadhyayi.’
It is considered as the for runner to the computer programming language. |
5th
Century BC (about) |
|
Al-Khwariz mi |
Al-Khwariz mi
had the technique of performing arithmetic with Hindu-Arabic numerals
developed. |
830 AD
(about) |
|
Al-Jazari |
Al-Jazari had
in vented the programmable machines, namely programmable humanoid robots, and
an astoronomical clock, which is considered as the first programmable analog
computer. |
1206 AD
(about) |
|
Ramon Lulla |
Ramon Llull
had designed multiple symbolic representations machines. |
1300 AD
(about) |
|
Blaise Pascal |
Pascal had
invented the mechanical calculator. |
1642 AD
(about) |
|
Gottfried
Leibniz |
Leibniz had
developed the first-order predicate calculus, which were very important for
the theoretical foundations of computer science. |
11670 AD
(about) |
|
Charles Babbage |
Babbage who
was popular as mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer, designed the Analytical Engine
and developed a prototype for a powerful mechanical calculator. Likewise, he
originated the concept of digital programmable computer. Babbage is popular as
“farter of the computer”. |
1822 AD
(about) |
|
George Bool |
Boole
conceptualized the Boole an algebra, which became the basis for digital logic
and computer science. |
1847 AD
(about) |
|
Gottlob Frege |
Frege developed
the first-order predicate calculus, which later became crucial precursor requirement
in developing the computation theory. |
1879 AD
(about) |
|
Herman Holleirth |
Hollierth invented
the punched card evaluthing machine and hence, he is popularly considered as the
father of modern machine data processing. |
1889 AD
(about) |
|
Vannevar Bush |
Bush developed
the Meme x concept, which lterled to the development of Hypertext. |
1930 AD
(about) |
|
Alonzo Church |
Church had developed
the lambda calculus and found the un-decidability problem within it. |
1936 AD
(about) |
|
Stephen Col Kleene |
Founded the
computation theory. |
1936 AD
(about) |
|
Claud Shannon |
Founded practical
digital circuit design. |
1937 AD |
|
Konrad Zuse |
Built the
first digital freely programmable computer Z series. |
1938 AD |
|
Tommy Flowers |
Designed and
built the Mark Coloss computers, the
world’s first programmable digital, electronic, and computing devices. |
1948 AD |
|
Max Newman |
Newman Founded
the computing Machine laboratory at the University of Manchester. It was the
place where world’s first stored-program computer, the Manchester Small-experimental
Machine was in vented. |
1943 AD |
|
John Mauchly &
J.Presper Ecker |
Designed and built
the ENIAC, the first modern computer, and the UNIVAC C I, the first commercially
available computer. |
1943 AD |
|
Yoshiro Nakamats |
Invented the
first floppy disk at Tokyo Imperial University. |
1950 AD |
|
David Caminer
& John Pinkerton |
Developed the
LEO computer i.e. the first business computer. |
1951 AD |
|
Sergei Alekseyevich
Lebedev |
Independently
designed the first electronic computer in the Soviet Union (i.e. Ukrain). |
1951 AD |
|
Grace Hopper |
Hopper wrote
the A-O complier (a sort of automatic programing language), which heavily
influenced the COBOL language. |
1952 AD |
|
Cuthbert Hurd |
Worked for
the International Business Machines Corporation and developed first general-purpose
computer, the IBM 701 |
1952 AD |
|
Alan Perliset
al |
Developed the
ALGOL programming language, and the first recipient of the turning Award. |
1952 AD |
|
Noam Chomsky |
Chomsky developed
Chomsky hierarchy. He made contributions to computer science with is work in
linguistics. |
1956 AD |
|
Double as Engelbart
and Bill English |
Best known
for inventing the computer mouse. |
1963 AD |
|
Tadashi Sasaki |
Sasaki was an
engineer at Sharp comp any and he conceived a single-chip microprocessor CPU.
He also developed LCD calculators at Sharp. |
1963 AD |
|
Dennis Ritchie
and Ken Thompson |
Pioneered the
c programming language and the Unix computer operating system at Bell Labs. |
1967 AD |
|
Ken Thompos |
Thompson developed
the Unix operating system, the B programming language plane 9 operating
system, the first computer chess game and the UTF-8 encoding at Bell Labs. Further,
he developed ‘Go’ programming language at Google. |
1967 AD |
|
Adriaan van
Wijngaarden |
Widjngaarden
developed the W-grammar first used in the definit ion of ALGO L 68 |
1968 AD |
|
Masatoshi Shima |
Designed the
Intel 4004, the first commercial microprocessor. |
1968 AD |
|
Leslie Lamport |
Formulated algorithms
to solve different fun damental problems in distributes systems (e.g. the
bakery algorithm). |
1974 AD |
|
VintCerf and
Bob kahn |
Designed the
transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol (TCP and IP), the primary
data communication on protocols of the Internet and other computer networks. |
1978 AD |
|
Tim
Berners-Lee |
Invented worldwideweb. |
1989 AD |
|
Tim Berners-Lee
and Robot Cailliau |
Send first
HTTP communication on between client and server. |
1989 AD |