Explore the people, works, and institutions that shaped modern technology.
paper · 1948
paper · 1937
tool · 1952
First Computer Programmer
1830s–1850s
Father of Computer Science
1930s–1950s
project · 1837
project · 1969
laboratory · Murray Hill, New Jersey, USA
lab · Buckinghamshire, England
project · 1940
language · 1972
laboratory · Geneva, Switzerland
Father of the Computer
1820s–1870s
Father of Information Theory
1930s–1990s
language · 1959
paper · 1950
Creator of C and Co-creator of Unix
1960s–2000s
project · 1822
Father of Algorithm Analysis
1960s–present
paper · 1945
project · 2005
language · 2009
company · Mountain View, California, USA
Mother of COBOL and Pioneer of Compilers
1940s–1990s
project · 1944
university · Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
standard · 1990
standard · 1991
research institute · Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Father of Modern Computing Architecture
1920s–1950s
Co-creator of Unix, Go, and UTF-8
Creator of Linux and Git
1990s–present
project · 1991
Pioneer of Software Engineering
laboratory · Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
paper · 1843
paper · 1936
lab · Beaverton, Oregon, USA
university · Stanford, California, USA
tool · 1978
book · 1968
Inventor of the World Wide Web
1980s–present
org · United States
university · Berkeley, California, USA
university · Cambridge, England
university · Helsinki, Finland
university · Oxford, England, UK
standard · 1994
project · 1989
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