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Computer Structure & Logic: Chapter 1- Introduction and History of Computers

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Who is: John V. Atanasoff and Clifford Berry?   Inventors of the "ABC" (Atanasoff-Berry Computer) from 1937-1942.  
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Who is: Tommy Flowers?   Created "Colossus," in 1943 but not credited until years later becasue this was a military machine.  
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Who is: John P. Eckert and John W. Mauchly?   Inventors of "ENIAC" (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Calculator) in 1946.  
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Who is: John von Neumann?   Created the "Stored-Program Technique," and the "von Neumann Computer Model."  
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Who is: Lee de Frost   Created the triode in 1906 which was used in early computers.  
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Who is: John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley?   Inventors of the transistor in 1948. (Received a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956.)  
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Who is: Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce?   Co-Creators of the Integrated Circut (IC) between 1958 and 1959.  
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What is: a semiconductor?    
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