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John Napier (1550-1617)
Henry Briggs ( 1561-1630)
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Gaspard Schott (1608-66)
Blaise Pascal (1623-66)
Samuel Morland (1625-95)
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1646-1716)
Pierre Jacquet-Droz (1700s)
Wolfgang von Kempelen (1734-1804)
Joseph-Marie Jacquard (1752-1834)
Baron Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Fourier (1768-1830)
Pehr Georg Scheutz (1785-1873)
Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
George Boole (1815-64)
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Martin Wiberg (1826-1905)
William Stanley Jevons (1835-82)
Henry Adams (1838-1918)
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Vilhelm Bjerknes (1862-1951)
Maurice d'Ocagne (1862-1938)
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John von Neumann (1903-57)
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Stanley M. Ulam
Harry D. Huskey
Ralph J. Slutz
M. H. A. Newman
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Allen W. M. Coombs
Cuthbert C. Hurd
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Andrew Porter
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I. J. Good
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Herman Hollerith
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Konrad Zuse
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Alan Turing
John von Neumann
Claude Shannon
Konrad Zuse
John V. Atanasoff
John V. Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert
Howard Aiken
Jay W. Forrester
Thomas J. Watson, Sr.
William Norris
H. Ross Perot
William Shockley
Robert Noyce
Jack Kilby
Marcian E. (Ted) Hoff
Gene Amdahl
Seymour Cray
Gordon Bell
Grace Murray Hopper
John Backus
John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz
Gary Kindall
William Gates
Dennis Ritchie and Kenneth Thompson
Daniel Bricklin
Nolan Bushnell
Steven Jobs
Adam Osborne
William Millard
Donald Knuth
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John Vincent Atanasoff
Charles Babbage
Clifford Berry
René Grillet
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz
Percy Ludgate
Samuel Morland
John Napier
Blaise Pascal
Wilhelm Schickard
Alan M. Turing
Konrad Zuse