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Computer Pioneers

Through innovative ideas and inventions, computer pioneers transformed the ways people worked, played, and communicated in the 1900s.

J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, 1919-1995 and 1907-1980

Kenneth Olsen, 1926-2011

Adam Osborne, 1939-2003

Grace Hopper, 1906-1992

Gordon Moore, 1929-