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John von Neumann: Genius of Man and Machine - http://www.redfish.com/dkunkle/vonNeumann/
Biography of the man who built the first computer that used a flexible stored program, and developed a theory of artificial automata. |
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Jack S. Kilby - http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/87.html
Biography on the man who invented the microchip and the pocket calculator from the Nation Inventors Hall of Fame. |
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Herman Hollerith's Tabulating Machines - http://www.maxmon.com/1890ad.htm
Read about the man who invented machine that made it easier to tabulate Census reports. |
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Grace Murray Hopper - http://www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/hopper.html
Read about the woman who invented the compiler, a program that translates English instructions into the language of a certain computer. |
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Grace Murray Hopper - http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/tap/Files/hopper-story.html
Article on this woman who programmed some of the very first computers. |