Computer Aptitude: Important Computer Inventors

1. Inventor of Computer– Charles Babbage
2. First Modern Computer in the World- ENIAC
3. First Commercial Computer – Univac
4. First Programmable Digital Computer – SEAC (Standards Eastern Automatic Computer)
5. ENIAC was developed by – John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert
6. Inventor of Punch Cards in Computer – Hollerith
7. First Computer Programming Languages-FORTRAN, LISP and COBOL
8. Computer Graphics was developed by – William Fetter
9. ARPANET was developed by – DARPA
10. First Compiler was developed by – Dr. Grace Murray Hopper
11. Father of Computer Animations- John Whitney
12. First movie to use Digital Image Processing- West World in 1973
13. Computer Mouse was invented by- Douglas Engel Bart
14. Computer Keyboard was invented by- Christopher Latham Sholes
15. Laptop Computer was invented by – Adam Osborne
16. First Graphical Computer Game was invented by- A.S. Douglas
17. Computer BIOS was invented by – Gary Kildall
18. Inventor of Computer Bug- Dr. Grace Murray Hopper
19. Inventors of Computer Chip (IC) – Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce
20. Father of Computer Hard Disk- Reynold Johnson
21. Inventor of First Data Base – Dr. Edgar Frank Codd
22. Inventor of Ethernet Computer Networking- David Boggs, Chuck Thacker and Butler Lampson in Xerox PARC
23. Inventor of Computer Scanner – Ray Kurzweil
24. Inventor of Computer Speakers- Abinawan Puracchidas
25. Inventor of MS-DOS Operating Systems- Microsoft
26. Inventors of first computer Microprocessors – Faggin , Hoff & Mazor
27. Inventor of Spacewar computer Game – Steve Russell & MIT
28. UNIVAC was developed by – John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert
29. Inventor of Z1 computer- Konrad Zuse
30. Inventor of ABC computer – John Atanasoff & Clifford Berry