| Charles Babbage |
- Father of the Computer
- Designed the Analytical Engine and Difference Engine
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| Ada Lovelace |
- First Computer Programmer
- Wrote the first algorithm for Babbage’s machine
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| Alan Turing |
- The Father of Modern Computer Science
- Developed the concept of Turing Machine, Code-breaking in WWII
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| John Atanasoff |
- Invented the Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC)
- First Electronic Digital Computer
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| John Von Neumann |
- Contributed for Stored -program architecture (Von Neumann architecture)
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| John Bardeen, Walter Brattain & William Shockley |
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| Jack Kilby & Robert Noyce |
- Invented the Integrated Circuit (IC)
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| Herman Hollerith |
- Invented Punched card system
- Founded IBM
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| J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly |
- Invented ENIAC
- First general-purpose electronic computer
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| Ted Hoff |
- Invented the Microprocessor (Intel 4004)
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| Gordon Moore |
- Known for Moore’s Law
- Co-founder of Intel
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| Dennis Ritchie |
- Developed C Programming Language and UNIX
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| Ken Thompson |
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| Bjare Stroustrup |
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| James Gosling |
- Developed the Java Programming Language
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| Guido Van Rossum |
- Developed the Python Programming Language
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| Vinton Cerf |
- Father of Internet
- TCP/IP
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| Tim Berners -Lee |
- Inventor of the World Wide Web
- Contributed to HTML, HTTP, URLs
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| Steve Jobs |
- Co-founder Apple Inc.
- He contributed to Mac, iPhone, GUI revolution
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| Steve Wozniak |
- Co-founder of Apple
- Designed Apple I & II
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| Bill Gates |
- Co-founder of Microsoft
- Contributed to Popularized Personal Computing
- Developed MS-DOS and Windows
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| Mark Zuckerberg |
- Founder of Facebook now Meta
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| Larry Page and Sergey Brin |
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| Geoffrey Hinton |
- Godfather of AI
- He contributed in Deep Learning &Neural Networks
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| Yann LeCun |
- He contributed to Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs)
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| Andrew Ng |
- He contributed to AI education & machine learning
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| Indian inventors: – |
| Vijay P. Bhatkar |
- Father of Indian Supercomputer
- Developed the India’s first Supercomputer PARAM
- Organization C-DAC
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| Samarendra Kumar Mitra |
- Pioneer in Indian Computing
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| Narendra Karmakar |
- Karmarkar’s Algorithm (Linear Program)
- Computer algorithms & optimization
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| Raj Reddy |
- Known for AI
- First Indian to win the Turing Award 1994
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| Raghunath Mashelkar |
- Field Computer science and innovation systems
- Former Director General CSIR
- Contribution in Technology & digital innovation policies
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| Arvind Krishna |
- Computer engineering
- CEO of IBM
- Contribution in computing & AI leadership
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| Sundar Pichai |
- CEO of Google (Alphabet)
- Contribution in Chrome, Android growth, AI- driven products
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| Nandan Nilekani |
- Contribution in Adhaar digital identity System
- Former Chairman, UIDAI
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| Kanwal Rekhi |
- Known as Father of Indian Silicon Valley
- Contribution in Semiconductor & Networking startups
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| Ashok Jhunjhunwala |
- Related to Telecom & Computer Networks
- Contribution in Indigenous telecom technologies in India
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| Dabbala Rajagopal (Raj)Reddy |
- Field Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
- Award -Turing award
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| Ramanathan V. Guha |
- Contribution in RSS (Really Simple Syndication), Schema.org
- Web Technologies and Knowledge representation
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| Sabeer Bhatia |
- Inventor and Co-founder of Hotmail
- Web/ Internet Based Computing Services
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| N. R. Narayana Murthy |
- Co-founder of Infosys
- Contribution in Indian IT services revolution
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| Ajay Bhatt (Indian-American) |
- Co-inventor of USB (Universal Serial Bus)
- In Field of Hardware Interface Technology
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| Arvind Krishna |
- CEO of IBM
- Cloud Computing and AI
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| Sam Pitroda |
- Telecom & digital Communication revolution in India
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