Biographies

The People Who Built Computer Science

Sourced biographies of the mathematicians, engineers and programmers who made the field: what they did, why it mattered, and how their work connects.

• Ada Lovelace, The first published computer program
• Alan Turing, The Turing machine
• Charles Babbage, The Difference Engine
• Claude Shannon, Information theory
• Dennis Ritchie, The C programming language
• Donald Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming
• Edsger Dijkstra, Dijkstra's shortest path algorithm
• Grace Hopper, The first compiler
• Guido van Rossum, Creating the Python programming language
• John von Neumann, The stored-program computer architecture
• Linus Torvalds, The Linux kernel
• Tim Berners-Lee, The World Wide Web
• Vint Cerf, Co-designing the TCP/IP protocols