I have slightly extended a list of links from (and to) Wikipedia.
A list is a not an optimal format for this, a visual graph would be better.
This story is still unfolding, with Mobile, IoT, biotech and many other areas of science and technology improving exponentially by efforts of innovators.
The Innovators | Book by Walter Isaacson | Official Publisher Page | Simon & Schuster:
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution: Walter Isaacson: 9781476708690: Amazon.com: Books
Book Review: ‘The Innovators’ by Walter Isaacson - WSJ
The Innovators : NPR
The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Some of the innovators covered in the book include:"
- Charles Babbage
(1837) designed the Analytical Engine - Ada Lovelace
(1843) ideas, early computer programming, "Notes" on Babbage's Analytical Engine - George Boole mathematician,
(1847) algebra for logical reasoning - Herman Hollerith
(1890) punch-card machine for census, founded company that become IBM - Vannevar Bush
(1931) ideas, analog electro-mechanical computer - Alan Turing
(1937) described universal computer - Claude Shannon
(1937) using switches for boolean algebra (MIT), foundation of digital computers - John Vincent Atanasoff
(1939) model of electronic computer, with electro-mechanical drum - Harvard Mark I
(1944) general-purpose electro-mechanical computer (IBM) - John von Neumann
(1945) described EDVAC, stored-program computer - ENIAC
(1945) first electronic general-purpose [ Computer ] (Penn)
designed by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert - Grace Hopper
(1952) programming Mark 1, first compiler for programs - (1947) [ Transistor ] invented in Bell labs
- William Shockley : transistor, Nobel prize, "brought silicon to Silicon Valley"
- John Bardeen : 2 Nobel prizes, transistor, superconductivity
- Walter Houser Brattain: Nobel prize, transistor
- (1971) [ Microprocessor ]
- Robert Noyce co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor (1957), Intel (1968), microprocessor
- Gordon Moore: Fairchild Semiconductor, Intel
- Andrew Grove: Intel
- Jack Kilby, co-inventor of microprocessor, Nobel Prize, inventor of the handheld calculator and the thermal printer: Texas Instruments
- Marcian Hoff co-inventor of microprocessor
- [ Internet ]
- J.C.R. Licklider ideas: one of the first to foresee modern-style
graphical user interface, interactive computing, ARPANET, Internet - (1945) Vannevar Bush ideas "As We May Think" (Memex)
- (1969) ARPANET
- (1973) TCP/IP : Bob Kahn, Vint Cerf
- [ Ideas ]
- Stewart Brand
(1968) Whole Earth Catalog - Doug Engelbart human-computer interface, mouse, GUI
(1968) The Mother of All Demos - Alan Kay ideas: "The best way to predict the future is to invent it"
(1972) Dynabook: “A Personal Computer For Children Of All Ages”
object-oriented programming, windowing graphical user interface, Smalltalk, Squeak; Model–view–controller; (Xerox PARC) - (1970s) [ Minicomputer ]
- (1970s) [ Gaming Computers ]
- (1972) Atari
- [ Personal Computer ]
- (1975) Microsoft
- (1976) Apple Computers
- [ Free and Open Source Software ]
- (1983) GNU : Richard Stallman
- (1991) Linux : Linus Torvalds
- (1980s) [ Modem ]
- [ World Wide Web ]
- (1991) Tim Berners-Lee created
- (1995) Netscape
- [ Wiki ]
- (1995) Ward Cunningham created
- (1999) Blogger by Evan Williams
- (2001) Wikipedia
- [ Search Engines ]
- (1998) Google
- [ Artificial Intelligence ]
- (1955) John McCarthy
- (1997) Deep Blue (chess computer)
- (2011) Watson (computer)
- Intelligent personal assistants
