Achievement
date | Person | Achievement |
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| | Adleman, Leonard | RSA algorithm and making public-key cryptography useful in practice.
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| | Aiken, Howard | Conceived and co-designed the Harvard Mark I. |
| ~ | Al-Khwarizmi | The term algorithm is derived from the algorism, the technique of performing arithmetic with Hindu–Arabic numerals popularised by al-Khwarizmi in his book On the Calculation with Hindu Numerals.[1][2][3] |
| , | Allen, Frances E. | Developed bit vector notation and program control-flow graphs; first female IBM Fellow (); first female recipient of the ACM's Turing Award ().
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| , , | Amdahl, Gene | Pioneer of mainframe computing; designed IBM ; chief architect of IBM System/[4][5] Formulated Amdahl's law; also worked on IBM and IBM Stretch.[6] |
| | Atanasoff, John | Built the first electronic digital computer, the Atanasoff–Berry Computer, though it was neither progr
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