Fathers of Technology - By Debra Donston, Illustrated by Brian Moore - Compilation by Drew - January 2008

Fathers of Computing

Father of Computer Science - Alan Turing



Father of the MicroProcessor - 1969, Ted Hoff


Father of the Modern PC - 1979, Steve Wozniak



Father of ASCII - 1960, Bob Bemer



Father of the Relational Database - Edgar F. Codd



Father of the Mouse - 1970, Douglas Engelbart



Fathers of Silicon Valley - Bill Hewlett & Dave Packard



Father of DOS - Gary Kildall



Fathers of the Modem - 1975, Dennis Hayes, Dale Heatherington



Father of E-Mail - 1971, Raymond Tomlinson



Father of the Laser Printer - 1971, Gary Starkweather



Father of the internet - Vint Cerf



Father of Internet Search - 1990, Alan Emtage



Father of the LAN - 1980, Bob Metcalfe



Father of Networking - Ray Noorda



Father of the Web - Tim Berners-Lee



Father of the Spreadsheet - 1970, Dan Bricklin



Father of Open Source - 1983, Richard Stallman



Father of Java - 1994, James Gosling



Father of Collaboration - Ray Ozzie



Father of the Graphical Web Browser - 1993, Marc Andreessen



Father of Wiki - 1995, Ward Cunningham