Tom Kilburn Stored program inventor
Kilburn (and Freddie Williams) created the first stored-program computer.
From This is True for 14 January 2001
computing
Computer and Internet pioneers and visionaries
Michael Muuss Network architect
Muuss created the “ping” utility.
From This is True for 19 November 2000
Victor Grinich IC pioneer
Grinich was one of the “Traitorous Eight”.
From This is True for 5 November 2000
John Wilder Tukey Amateur linguist
Tukey coined the terms for several basic ideas in computing.
From This is True for 23 July 2000
Reynold B. Johnson Tech designer
A researcher for IBM in San Jose, Calif., Johnson led the team which developed the computer disk drive in 1956. Faster to access than tape, the “Random Access Method of Accounting Control” drive revolutionized the way data were stored. Delivered to its first customer on September 13, 1956, RAMAC used as many as fifty 24-inch … Read more
From This is True for 13 September 1998
Jim Nitchals Anti-spam activist
Nitchals was one of the earliest anti-spammers.
From This is True for 7 June 1998