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Blaise Pascal   Mechanical calculating device 1642  
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Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz   invented the Stepped Rocker 1670  
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Chalres Babbage   analytical engine-calculating machine that used to punched cards to store information in 1842  
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Herman Hollerith   invented the tabuling machine 1890  
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John Atanasoff Clifford Berry   Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC) 1939  
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Howard H. Aiken   Mark 1. 1944  
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John Mauchly J. Presper Eckert   Electronic Numerical Integration and calculator. 1946  
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Alan Turing   Turing Maching. late 30's and 40's  
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Jon von Neumann   EDVAC(Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer) 1949  
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William Shockley John Bardeen Walter Brittain   Transistor 1947  
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Grace Murray Hopper   COBOL(Common business oriented language)  
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Jack Kilby   integrated Circuit (1958)  
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William Gates III   Microsoft Cooperation 1975  
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Paul Allen   Microsoft Cooperation  
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Thomas Knoll John Knoll   Creators of Photoshop 1988  
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