Computers: Processing the Data (Innovators)

The computer stands out as possibly the most important invention among the thousands of scientific leaps and technical advances of the twentieth century. Meet the people who made this marvel: Charles Babbage (attempted to build the first modern computer in 1836); Alan Turing (conceived the idea of artificial intelligence); John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert (ENIAC, the first fully electronic digital computer); Robert Noyce and Jack Kilby (the integrated circuit); Ted Hoff (the microprocessor); Steve Wozniak (inventor of the Apple computer); and Tim Berners-Lee (creator of the World Wide Web).David J. Bianco is the author of 'Computers: Processing the Data (Innovators)', published 2005 under ISBN 9781881508878 and ISBN 1881508870.