List of Father of Various Fields - Computer Science & Electronics

Nov 2020|🟢Current|3 min read|56 entries

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n this post, we are going to learn about some of the important scientists / inventors / mathematicians of the past and the present who made significant contributions in their area of study and were...

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Computer & ElectronicsFather of Computer
Charles Babbage
Father of Computer Science / Modern Computer
Alan Turing
Father of Computing Age
Wilhelm Schickard (First automatic calculator, 1623)
Father ofCloud Computing
Dr. Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider / J.C.R. Licklider
Father of Information Technology
Claude Elwood Shannon
Father of Information Technology & Telecom Revolution of India
Rajiv Gandhi
Father of Binary Code
Gottfried Leibniz & Eugene Paul Curtis
Father of Binary Digit Computer
Konrad Zuse
Father of Data Processing
Herman Hollerith
Father of Computer Architecture
John Von Neumann
Father of Computer Virology
John Von Neumann
Father of Analog Computer
Lord Kelvin (Tide predictor, 1837)
Father of Electronic Digital Computer
John Vincent Atanasoff (Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC), 1942)
Father of PC (Personal Computer)
Henry Edward RobertsĀ  (Altair 8800, 1974)
Father of IBM PC
Philip Don Estridge
Father of Portable Computer
Adam Osborne (Osborne 1, 1981)
Father of Laptop
Bill Moggridge
Father of Floppy Disc
Alan Shugart
Father of CD
James Russell
Father of Mouse
Douglas Engelbert
Father of Barcode Reader
Norman Joseph Woodland
Father of Disk Drive
Reynold B. Johnson
Father-FounderĀ of Free Software/Free Software Movement
Richard Stallman (Free Software Foundation, 1985; GNU General Public License (GPL))
Father/Mother of Computer programming
Ada Lovelace
Father of DOS
Tim Paterson
Father of Internet
Vint Cerf
Father of World Wide Web
Tim Berners-Lee
Father of Search Engine
Jonathon Fletcher.*Father of Email Service– Ray Tomlinson.**Father of 'C' Language– Dennis Ritchie
Father of ā€˜C++’ Language
Bjarne Stroustrup
Father ofĀ FORTRAN
John Backus
Father of ā€˜Java’
James Gosling
Father of ā€˜JavaScript'
Brendan Eich
Father of Electronics
John Ambrose Fleming
Father of Supercomputing
Seymour Cray
Father of Indian Supercomputing
Vijay Pandurang Bhatkar
Father of Robotics (early)
Ismail Al-Jazari(also known as Leonardo da Vinci of the East)
Father of Robotics
Nikola Tesla
Father of Modern Robotics Industry
Joseph F. Engelberger
Father of Robotics in India
Raj Reddy
Father of Artificial Intelligence(AI)
John Mccarthy
Father of Pentium Chip
Vinod Dham
Father of Video Games
Ralph Baer
Father of Mobile Phone/Cellphone
Martin Cooper
Father of Camera Phone
Philippe Kahn (1997)
Father of SMS (Short Message Service)
Matti Makkonen
Father of Wi-Fi
Vic Hayes
Father of Fibre OpticsĀ Communications*
Narinder Singh Kapany(Indian Origin, passed away on Dec 04, 2020)
Father of MIMO (Multiple Input, Multiple Output)
Arogyaswami Paulraj
Father of Android
Andy Rubin
Father of Cybersecurity
Bob Thomas
Father of Cyber Criminology
Karuppannan Jaishankar.šŸ“SideNotes:*Jonathon Fletcher invented the First Web Crawling Search Engine –Jumpstationat the University of Stirling in Scotland on 21 DecemberĀ 1993.**Ray Tomlinson is globally acknowledged as theinventor of email for ARPAnet. But Indian-born ScientistV. A. Shiva Ayyadurairaised a controversial claim for the title, claiming he wrote an email software program for the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) in 1978, called "EMAIL" at the age of 14
Autobiography of Charles Babbage
A passage from the life of a philosopher (1864)
Inventor of Difference Engine and Analytical Engine
Charles Babbage
World's First Computer Programmer
Ada Lovelace (wrote first algorithm)
World Computer Literacy Day
December 2
Nobel prize in Computer Science*
Turing Award.**updated according to current statistics

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