COMPUTER STUDY NOTES FOR UPCOMING BANK & OTHER COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION

Important Inventions and Discoveries

v Father of Computer– Charles Babbage

v First Modern Computer in the World- ENIAC

v Inventor of Punch Cards in Computer – Hollerith

v Computer Graphics was developed by – William Fetter

v ARPANET was developed by – DARPA

v First Compiler was developed by – Dr. Grace Murray Hopper

v Father of Computer Animations- John Whitney

v Keyboard was invented by- Christopher Latham Sholes

v Laptop Computer was invented by – Adam Osborne

v First Graphical Computer Game was invented by- A.S. Douglas

v Computer BIOS was invented by – Gary Kildall

v Inventors of Computer Chip (IC) – Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce

v Father of Computer Hard Disk- Reynold Johnson

v Inventor of First Data Base – Dr. Edgar Frank Codd

v Inventor of Computer Scanner – Ray Kurzweil

v Inventor of Computer Speakers- Abinawan Puracchidas

v Inventor of MS-DOS Operating Systems- Microsoft

v Founder of Apple Incorporation – Steve Jobs

v Founder of Artificial Intelligence – John McCarthy

v Founder of Bluetooth – Ericsson

v Father of C Language – Dennis Ritchie

v Father of C++ language – Bjarne Stroustrup

v Founder of Email – Shiva Ayyadurai

v Founder of Google – Larry Page and Sergey Brin

v Founder of Internet – Vint Cerf

v Father of Java - James Gosling

v Founder of Linux – Linus Torvalds

v Founder of Microsoft – Bill Gates and Paul Allen

v Founder of Mobile Phones – Martin Cooper

v Founder of Mouse – Douglas Engelbart

v Founders of Oracle – Ed Oates, Larry Ellison, Bob Miner

v Founder of Php – Rasmus Lerdorf

v Founder of USB – Ajay V.Bhatt

v Founder of WWW – Tim Berners-Lee

v Founder of Yahoo – Jurry Yang and David Filo

v First Commercial Computer – UNIVAC

v ENIAC and UNIVAC was developed by – John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert