This is a list of people who made transformative breakthroughs in the creation, development and imagining of what computers could do.
Pioneers
~ Items marked with a tilde are circa dates.
See also
Computer Pioneer Award IEEE John von Neumann Medal Grace Murray Hopper Award History of computing History of computing hardware History of computing hardware (1960s–present) History of software List of computer science awards List of computer science journals List of computer scientists List of Internet pioneers List of pioneers in computer science List of people considered father or mother of a field § Computing The Man Who Invented the Computer (2010 book) List of Russian IT developers List of Women in Technology International Hall of Fame inductees Timeline of computing Turing Award Women in computing
References
Sources Hamming, Richard W. (1950). "Error detecting and error correcting codes" (PDF). Bell System Technical Journal. 29 (2): 147–160. Bibcode:1950BSTJ...29..147H. doi:10.1002/j.1538-7305.1950.tb00463.x. hdl:10945/46756. MR 0035935. S2CID 61141773. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-05-25. Ling, San; Xing, Chaoping (2004). Coding Theory: a First Course. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-82191-9. Pless, Vera (1982). Introduction to the Theory of Error-Correcting Codes. New York: Wiley. ISBN 978-0-471-08684-0. Morgan, Samuel P. (September 1998). "Richard Wesley Hamming (1915–1998)" (PDF). Notices of the AMS. 45 (8): 972–977. ISSN 0002-9920. Retrieved 2014-08-30.
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