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1801: Joseph Marie Jacquard,1821: Charles Babbage1848: Ada Lovelace1853: Swedish inventor Per Georg Scheutz1890: Herman Hollerith1931:1936: Alan Turing1937: John Vincent Atanasoff1939: David Packard and Bill Hewlett1941: German inventor and engineer Konrad Zuse1941:1941: Atanasoff and his graduate student, Clifford Berry1945: .1947: William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain of Bell Laboratories1949:1953: Grace Hopper develops the first computer language, which eventually becomes known as COBOL, which stands for COmmon, Business-Oriented Language according to the National Museum of American History. Hopper is later dubbed the "First Lady of Software" in her posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom citation. Thomas Johnson Watson Jr., son of IBM CEO Thomas Johnson Watson Sr., conceives the IBM 701 EDPM to help the United Nations keep tabs on Korea during the war.1958: Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce unveil the integrated circuit, known as the computer chip. Kilby is later awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work.1958: Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce unveil the integrated circuit, known as the computer chip. Kilby is later awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work. (copy)
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