Computer science/Catalogs/Breakthroughs

This is a list of people who have made major breakthroughs in computer science or the history of computing, possibly deserving articles of their own: (please try to limit your contributions to the really great ones who contributed something essential) Pat Palmer 16:06, 12 May 2007 (CDT)

• Backus, John - invention of FORTRAN
• Hopper, Grace - invention of the compiler, and COBOL
• Shannon, Claude - association of boolean algebra with digital design
• Turing, Alan - theory of computability
• Zuse, Konrad - likely invented the first viable electronic computer; likely the first designer to propose pipelining in processors