Inventions and their Inventors

Inventor of Computer– Charles Babbage

First Modern Computer in the World- ENIAC

First Commercial Computer – Univac

First Programmable Digital Computer – SEAC (Standards Eastern Automatic Computer)

ENIAC was developed by – John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert

Inventor of Punch Cards in Computer – Hollerith

First Computer Programming Languages- FORTRAN, LISP and COBOL

Computer Graphics was developed by – William Fetter

ARPANET was developed by – DARPA

First Compiler was developed by – Dr. Grace Murray Hopper

Father of Computer Animations- John Whitney

First movie to use Digital Image Processing- West World in 1973

Computer Mouse was invented by- Douglas Engel Bart

Computer Keyboard was invented by- Christopher Latham Sholes

Laptop Computer was invented by – Adam Osborne

First Graphical Computer Game was invented by- A.S. Douglas

Computer BIOS was invented by – Gary Kildall

Inventor of Computer Bug- Dr. Grace Murray Hopper

Inventors of Computer Chip (IC) – Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce

Father of Computer Hard Disk- Reynold Johnson

Inventor of First Data Base – Dr. Edgar Frank Codd

Inventor of Ethernet Computer Networking- David Boggs, Chuck Thacker and Butler Lampson in Xerox PARC

Inventor of Computer Scanner – Ray Kurzweil

Inventor of Computer Speakers- Abinawan Puracchidas

Inventor of MS-DOS Operating Systems- Microsoft

Inventors of first computer Microprocessors – Faggin , Hoff & Mazor

Inventor of Spacewar computer Game – Steve Russell & MIT

UNIVAC was developed by – John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert

Inventor of Z1 computer- Konrad Zuse

Inventor of ABC computer – John Atanasoff & Clifford Berry