Bill Gosper #ComputingPeople Father of the hacker community en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gosp… Born: April 26, 1943 Birthplace: Pennsauken Township, New Jersey Nationality: United States

Minicomputer #ComputingConcepts A minicomputer is a category of computers whose performance lands between that of a microcomputer and a mainframe. The term minicomputer was dominant in the 1960s and 1970s; today the more commonly used term is mid-range computer.

Tencent #ComputingOrganizations Social media, gaming, music, and electronic retail services and known for WeChat en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tencent Inception: 1998 Place: Shenzhen, China

Regis McKenna #ComputingPeople Pioneer in marketing and venture capital en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regis_McK… Born: January 1, 1945 Birthplace: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Nationality: United States

Bill Atkinson #ComputingPeople Pioneer in personal computing en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Atki… Born: January 1, 1951 Nationality: United States

John Pople #ComputingPeople Pioneer in computational chemistry en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Pople Born: October 31, 1925 Birthplace: Somerset, England Nationality: England Death: March 15, 2004 Place of Death: Chicago, Illinois

Andrew Viterbi #ComputingPeople Pioneer in cellular communication en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Vi… Born: March 9, 1935 Birthplace: Bergamo, Italy Nationality: Italy

Service #ComputingConcepts A service is a distinct run-time behavior in a distributed system, offered by one component and used by others.

Tata Institute #ComputingOrganizations Research and development organization known for important contributions to theoretical computer science en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tata_Inst… Inception: 1945 Place: Mumbai, India

Jeanette Wing #ComputingPeople Pioneer in computational thinking en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeannette… Born: December 4, 1956 Birthplace: Newark, New Jersey Nationality: United States

Palmer Luckey #ComputingPeople Pioneer in virtual reality en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_Lu… Born: September 19, 1992 Birthplace: Long Beach, California Nationality: United States

Michael Tomczyk #ComputingPeople Project manager for the Commodore VIC-20 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_T… Born: November 20, 1948 Birthplace: Oshkosh, Wisconsin Nationality: United States

Bjarne Stroustrup #ComputingPeople Inventor of C++ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bjarne_St… Born: December 30, 1950 Birthplace: Aarhus, Denmark Nationality: Denmark

Jerry Yang #ComputingPeople Co-founder of Yahoo en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Yan… Born: November 6, 1968 Birthplace: Taipei, Taiwan Nationality: China

Operating system #ComputingConcepts An operating system is the software that provides important abstractions common to all programs and mediates the use of the hardware’s resources.

Osborne Computer #ComputingOrganizations Personal computer manufacturer known for portable computers en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_C… Inception: 1980 Place: Hayward, California

Percy Ludgate #ComputingPeople Parallel inventor of the analytic engine en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Lud… Born: August 2, 1883 Birthplace: Dublin, Ireland Nationality: Ireland Death: October 16, 1922 Place of Death: Dublin, Ireland

Ken Iverson #ComputingPeople Inventor of APL en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_E… Born: December 17, 1920 Birthplace: Camrose, Canada Nationality: Canada Death: October 19, 2004 Place of Death: Toronto, Canada

Burroughs Corporation #ComputingOrganizations Hardware company focused on mainframe computers en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burroughs… Inception: 1886 Place: Plymouth, Michigan

Hash function #ComputingArtifacts Algorithm for mapping data of arbitrary size into a finite set of buckets of fixed size en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_func… Inception: 1953