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· came up with idea of storing a program in a computer’s memory, so that you don’t have to physically rewire it |
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| COBOL programming language; Common Business Oriented Language, which simplified coding for many business applications like payroll, inventory, etc.; one of first programmers of Harvard Mark I system |
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· Chairman of IBM corporation; helped turn IBM into one of most efficient with punched card tabulating machines |
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| Robert Frankston and Dan Bricklin- |
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· created Visicalc, first spreadsheet program and application software, Visicalc ran out of PC |
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| Torvalds created the Linux operating system, an “open source” system that allowed anyone to use it and modify it to fit their needs. |
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