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Eccles, William and Jordan, Frank Wilfred. Patented the Eccles–Jordan trigger circuit, [23] the so-called "bistable flip-flop ", a building block of all digital memory cells. Built from vacuum tubes, their concept was essential for the success of the Colossus codebreaking computer . 1943, 1951.
Rangaswamy Narasimhan. Rangaswamy Narasimhan (April 17, 1926 – September 3, 2007) was an Indian computer and cognitive scientist, regarded by many as the father of computer science research in India. [1] [2] He led the team which developed the TIFRAC, the first Indian indigenous computer [3] [4] and was instrumental in the establishment of ...
Democritus (c. 460 – c. 370 BC) [56] Founder of atomism in cosmology. Atomic theory (modern) Father Roger Boscovich (1711–1787) [57] First coherent description of atomic theory. John Dalton (1766–1844) [58] First scientific description of the atom as a building block for more complex structures.
Sir George Cayley [98] [99] Founding father of modern aerodynamics; first to identify the four aerodynamic forces of flight— weight, lift, drag, and thrust; modern airplane design is based on those discoveries. American landscape architecture. Frederick Law Olmsted [100] Olmsted designed Central Park in New York City.
Trinity College, Cambridge, Peterhouse, Cambridge. Signature. Charles Babbage KH FRS ( / ˈbæbɪdʒ /; 26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871) was an English polymath. [1] A mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer, Babbage originated the concept of a digital programmable computer. [2] Babbage is considered by some to be ...
Hans Moravec. Raj Reddy. John McCarthy (September 4, 1927 – October 24, 2011) was an American computer scientist and cognitive scientist. He was one of the founders of the discipline of artificial intelligence. [1] He co-authored the document that coined the term "artificial intelligence" (AI), developed the programming language family Lisp ...
Vinton Gray Cerf was born in New Haven, Connecticut, on June 23, 1943, the son of Muriel (née Gray) and Vinton Thurston Cerf. [13] [14] Cerf attended Van Nuys High School with Jon Postel and Steve Crocker. While in high school, Cerf worked at Rocketdyne on the Apollo program for six months and helped write statistical analysis software for the ...
Lawrence Roberts (scientist) Lawrence Gilman Roberts (December 21, 1937 – December 26, 2018) was an American engineer who received the Draper Prize in 2001 "for the development of the Internet ", [4] and the Principe de Asturias Award in 2002. As a program manager and later office director at the Advanced Research Projects Agency, Roberts and ...