These people made significant contributions to the computing field. In some cases, a person contributed in the era before the Internet and the Web became a valuable information archive.
Howard Aiken, Gene Amdahl, Marc Andreeson, John Atsanoff, Gordon Bell, Robert W. Bemer, Tim Berners-Lee, Clifford Berry, Dan Bricklin, Robert Campbell, Vinton Cerf, John Cocke, Seymour Cray, Edsger Dijkstra, John Eckert, Douglas Engelbart, Bob Frankston, Bill Gates, Charles Goldfarb, James Gosling, Herb Grosch, Grace Hopper, Steve Jobs, Fletcher Jones, Philippe Kahn, Mitch Kapor, Alan Kay, Jack Kilby, Leonard Kleinrock, Kenneth Knowlton, Donald Knuth, Ray Kurzweil, James Martin, Max Matthews, John Mauchly, John McCarthy, Daniel McCracken, Robert Metcalfe, Marvin Minsky, Robert Moog, Gordon Moore, Ted Nelson, Peter Norton, Robert Noyce, Roy Nutt, Max Palevsky, Jon Postel, Ron Rivest, Laurie Spiegel, Richard Stallman, Christopher Strachey, Alan Turing, John von Neumann, Ed Yourdon, Norbert Weiner, Steve Wozniak
Graphics (Kenneth Knowlton), computer music pioneers (Robert
Campbell, , Robert Moog, Laurie Spiegel)
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