| Information Science and
Technology Pioneers |
Gottfried von Leibniz
 Librarian, and inventor
of differential
and
integral calculus
|
Ada Bryon,
Lady Lovelace
Mathematician, First
Programmer
|
George Boole
Inventor of Symbolic
Logic and
Boolean Algebra
|
Vannevar Bush
"As We May Think",
Information Storage
and
Retrieval, Associative
Links,PC concept,
non-linear text
hypertext
concept
|
Claude E. Shannon
Inventor of
Communication/Information
Theory
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Norbert Wiener
Cybernetics, and
Feedback
|
Alan M. Turing
Created field of
Artificial Intelligence
|
Grace M. Hopper
Software development
concepts,
sophisticated
compilers
|
Douglas Engelbart
Invented the mouse,
hypertext linking,
windowing software,
client/server
|
Joseph C.R. Licklider
Developer of networking,
time-sharing
and
interactive computing
systems, advocate of
digital libraries
|
Paul Baran
Packet-
Switching
distributed communication
networks, star
topology
|
Robert E. Kahn
Internet
development,
Transmission Control
Protocol/Internet
Protocol
|
Vinton G. Cerf
Internet development,
Transmission Control
Protocol/Internet
Protocol |
Leonard Kleinrock
Internet development,
packet-switching theory |
Tim Berners-Lee
Developer of the
World Wide Web |
Theodor H. Nelson
Developer of
computer-based
hypertext |
Andries van Dam
Developer of hypermedia
systems and educational
software |
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