People

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Gary Starkweather

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The laser printer came into being when this person modified a Xerox copy machine

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Alan Turing

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Father of Computer Science

His theoretical Machine—described in 1936—provided a blueprint for what would eventually become the digital computer.

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Ray Tomlinson

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father of email

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Marcian “Ted” Hoff

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Employee #12 at Intel, inventor of the microprocessor

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Douglas Englebart

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Was a pioneer in the areas of human-computer interaction, hypertext, networking and GUIs, his computer mouse invention was patented in 1970

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Gary Kildall

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Developed the CP/M operating system, a clone of which, QDOS, was licensed by IBM and became PC-DOS.

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Vint Curf

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father of the internet

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Tommy Byrnes Lee

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inventor of WWW

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Steve Wozniak

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Co-founder of Apple and creator of the Apple I and Apple II computers

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Ward Cunningham

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Invented the Java programming language in 1994 and implemented the first Java compiler.