From
the list of names select five and state their contribution to Computer
History.
Be sure to include to which
generation of computers they made their contribution.
(10
points)
1. Steven Jobs - Along with Stephen Wozniak built the first Apple computer. (4th Generation)
2. Grace Murray Hopper - developed the first compiler also coined the phrase "debugging". (2nd Generation)
3. Jack Kilby - working for Texas Instruments, developed the first integrated circuit. (3rd Generation)
4. John von Neumann - developed the concept of a stored program. (1st Generation)
5. John Atanasoff - Along with Clifford Berry developed one of the frist computers(ABC). (1st Generation)
6. Alan Turing - developed the idea of a "univeral machine". (1st Generation)
7. Stephen Wozniak - along with Stephen Jobs built the first Apple computer. (4th Generation)
8. Marcian Hoff - invented the microprocessor for Intel. (4th Generation)
9. Clifford Berry - along with John Atanasoff developed one of the frist computers(ABC). (1st Generation)
10. William Shockley - with John Bardeen and Walter Brittain of Bell laboratories invented the transistor. (2nd Generation)