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Born July 14, 1918 • Nebraska
Died November 16, 2016 (aged 98) • Concord • Massachusetts
Subjects Of Study computer memory
Harold Rosen
American engineer
Robert H. Dennard
American engineer
Steve Wozniak in 2014
Steve Wozniak
American electronics engineer
Robert Kahn
American computer scientist
Seymour Cray
American engineer
Mauchly, John
John Mauchly
American physicist and engineer
Jack Kilby
American engineer
Ray Kurzweil
American computer scientist and futurist
Konrad Zuse
German engineer
Sir Frederic Williams
British engineer
Vannevar Bush with Differential Analyzer
Vannevar Bush
American engineer
Armstrong, Edwin H.
Edwin H. Armstrong
American inventor
Charles Steinmetz.
Charles Proteus Steinmetz
American engineer
Zworykin, Vladimir
Vladimir Zworykin
American engineer and inventor
Danny Hillis
American businessman
Vinton Gray Cerf
Vinton Cerf
American computer scientist
Computer interface pioneer Douglas EngelbartEngelbart holding a video conference on the right side of the computer screen while working on a document with a remote collaborator during a 1968 computer conference in San Francisco, California.
Douglas Engelbart
American inventor
Martin Cooper
American engineer
Edward Feigenbaum, 2008.
Edward Albert Feigenbaum
American computer scientist
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