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Pioneer of mainframe computing; designed IBM 704; chief architect of IBM System/360. [4] [5] Formulated Amdahl's law; also worked on IBM 709 and IBM 7030 Stretch. [6] 1939 Atanasoff, John: Built the first electronic digital computer, the Atanasoff–Berry Computer, though it was neither programmable nor Turing-complete. 1822, 1837 Babbage, Charles
LEO I 'Lyons Electronic Office' [1] was the commercial development of EDSAC computing platform, supported by British firm J. Lyons and Co. 1953 DYSEAC - an early machine capable of distributing computing; 1955 General Motors Operating System made for IBM 701 [2] MIT's Tape Director operating system made for UNIVAC 1103 [3] [4] 1956
Prof. Joseph Weizenbaum, computer critic Kevin Warwick, cyborg scientist, implant self-experimenter; Niklaus Wirth, developed Pascal; Peter J. Weinberger, co-developer of the AWK language
1988 – African National Congress uses computer-based one-time pads to build a network inside South Africa. 1989 – Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau built the prototype system which became the World Wide Web at CERN. 1989 – Quantum cryptography experimentally demonstrated in a proof-of-the-principle experiment by Charles Bennett et al.
The co-developer and designer of the IBM 701 series which was IBM’s first commercial scientific computer and its first mass-produced mainframe computer. Joanne Chory , Lebanese-American plant biologist and geneticist. 2018 Breakthrough Prize laureate and winner of the 2019 Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research.
Charlotte Wassef, Miss Egypt 1934 and Miss Universe 1935; Meriam George, Miss Egypt 2005; Nick Kaldas, retired Deputy Commissioner; Fathia Nkrumah, wife of Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's first president, born Fathia Rizk; Lara Debbane, Miss Egypt 2014
The following is a list of some of the notable Egyptians inside and outside of Egypt This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Stephen White, A Brief History of Computing; The Computer History in time and space, Graphing Project, an attempt to build a graphical image of computer history, in particular operating systems. The Computer Revolution/Timeline at Wikibooks "File:Timeline.pdf - Engineering and Technology History Wiki" (PDF). ethw.org. 2012.