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This is a list of people who made transformative breakthroughs in the creation, development and imagining of what computers could do.


== Pioneers ==

~ Items marked with a tilde are circa dates.


== See also ==

Computer Pioneer Award
IEEE John von Neumann Medal
Grace Murray Hopper Award
History of computing
History of computing hardware
History of computing hardware (1960s–present)
History of software
List of computer science awards
List of computer science journals
List of computer scientists
List of Internet pioneers
List of pioneers in computer science
List of people considered father or mother of a field § Computing
The Man Who Invented the Computer (2010 book)
List of Russian IT developers
List of Women in Technology International Hall of Fame inductees
Timeline of computing
Turing Award
Women in computing


== References ==


=== Sources ===
Hamming, Richard W. (1950). "Error detecting and error correcting codes" (PDF). Bell System Technical Journal. 29 (2): 147–160. Bibcode:1950BSTJ...29..147H. doi:10.1002/j.1538-7305.1950.tb00463.x. hdl:10945/46756. MR 0035935. S2CID 61141773. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-05-25.
Ling, San; Xing, Chaoping (2004). Coding Theory: a First Course. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-82191-9.
Pless, Vera (1982). Introduction to the Theory of Error-Correcting Codes. New York: Wiley. ISBN 978-0-471-08684-0.
Morgan, Samuel P. (September 1998). "Richard Wesley Hamming (1915–1998)" (PDF). Notices of the AMS. 45 (8): 972–977. ISSN 0002-9920. Retrieved 2014-08-30.


== External links ==
Internet pioneers