Kemen pioneered the use of computers for ordinary people. He invented the BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) programming language in 1964 after experimenting with the LGP-30. He also developed azerbaijan cell phone database the DTSS (Dartmouth Time-Sharing System), one of the world's first time-sharing systems.
Major Achievements: He received the Computer Pioneer Award in 1985.
10. Grace Hopper
Grace Hopper was a United States Navy rear admiral and computing scientist. She was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer.
Hopper invented the first compiler for a computer programming language. He helped popularize the machine-independent programming language methodology, which led to the development of COBOL. He is also credited with popularizing the term "debugging," which refers to the process of correcting machine errors.
Key achievements: She was the first woman in the world to be awarded the title of Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society, an Honorary Doctor of Science from Marquette University, and was awarded the National Medal of Technology (1991).
9. John Backus
John Backus was a computer scientist, best known for developing FORTRAN. He earned a master's degree in mathematics from Columbia University in 1950.
Backus led the team that invented FORTRAN, the first widely used high-level programming language. He developed BNF (Backus-Naur form), a notation for specifying formal enumerative syntax. He also helped popularize the term functional programming language.
Major Achievements: Bacchus received the WW McDowell Award, the National Medal of Science, the ACM Turing Award, and was named an IBM Fellow.
8. Bill Gates
A man who needs no introduction. How could I leave out the world's richest programmer, whose software is used all over the world?
During Microsoft's first five years, he personally supervised every line of code the company produced, often correcting code he considered flawed or incorrect. Early in his career, he and Paul Allen wrote a complete BASIC compiler for a computer they did not have access to and had only 4 kilobytes of memory. They wrote it on an Intel 8080 emulator running on a PDP-10.
Key achievements: He has been awarded the National Medal for Technology and Innovation, the title of Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society, and the Bower Award for Leadership in Business.
7. Brian Kernighan
Brian Kernighan is a computer scientist who worked at Bell Labs. In his early career, he was a software editor at Prentice-Hall International.
He co-developed the Unix operating system with Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson. He was the author of many Unix programs, including cron and ditroff for version 7. Kernighan is the co-author of AMPL and the AWK programming language. He also developed the heuristic traveling salesman problem and graph partitioning (both NP-complete problems). Brian also coined the widely known phrase "What you see is what you get" (WYSIAYG).
Major Achievements: He won the INFORMS Computer Society Award in 1993 and has received numerous teaching awards throughout his career.