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Blaise Plascal, 1623-1662   Mechanical calculating device, Pascaline- 1462  
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Gottfried Wihelm von Leibniz, 1646-1716   Stepped Reckoner -1670  
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Charles Babbage 1792-1871   Analytical engine-calculating machine -1842  
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Herman Hollerith, 1860-1929   Tabulating machine 1890  
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John Atanasoff 1903-1959 Clifford Berry 1918-1953   Atanasoff-Berry computer 1939  
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Howard H. Aiken   Mark 1 1944  
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John Mauchly 1907-1980 J. Presper Eckert 1919-1959   Electronic Numerical Integration and Calculator -1946  
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Alan Turing 1912- 1954   Turing machine, The Enigma - late 1930s n 1940s  
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Jon von Neumann 1903-1957   Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer- 1947  
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William Shockley John Bardeen Walter Brittain   Transistor- 1947  
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Grace Murray Hopper 1906-1992   Common Business Oriented Language- 1960  
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Jack Kilby 1923-2005   1st Integrated Circuit- 1958 1st hand held calculator  
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William Gates III 1951   Microsoft- 1958  
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Paul Allen 1953   Microsoft- 1958  
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Thomas Knoll John Knoll   Adobe Photoshop 1988  
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Adam Fischer Peter Halacsy Peter Arvai   Prezi- 2008  
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