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Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1646 - 1716)   Invented the Stepped Reckoner in 1670.    
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Charles Babbage (1792 - 1871)   Invented the Analytical Engine - used to store information in 1842    
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Herman Hollerith (1860 - 1929)   Invented the Tabulating Machine in 1890    
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John Atanasoff (1903- 1995) Clifford Berry (1918 - 1963)   Invented the Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC)(1939)    
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Mark 1 (1944)   ASCC ( Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator)    
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John Mauchly (1907-1980) J. Presper Eckert (1919- 1995)   ENIAC ( Electronic Numerical Integration and Calculator) (1946)    
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Alan Turning (1912 - 1954)   Invented the Turing Machine also known as the "Enigma' in the 30's and 40's    
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Jon von Neumann (1903 - 1957)   Built the EDVAC (Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer w/ Mauchly and Eckert in 1947    
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William Shockley John Bardeen Walter Brattain   Invented the Transistor in 1947    
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Grace Murray Hopper ( 1906 - 1992)   Designed COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language)    
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Jack Kilby (1923 - 2005)   Developed the first integrated Circut in 1958.    
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William Gates III (10/28/1951)   Founder of Microsoft    
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Thomas Knoll John Knoll   Created Adobe Photoshop in 1988    
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Peter Arvai   Invented Prezi with two other people. Attended the Royal Institute    
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Steve Russel   Created the first computer game    
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Blaise Pacal (1623 - 1662)   Invented the mechanical calculating device called Pascaline - 1642    
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