Pioneers Series
The Pioneers series is a set of 15 framed portraits of scientists who has affected
the scientific field and the computer industry through the history. The frames will be
hanged on the walls of the second floor and will be on permanent display on the walls.
Check the pioneers of programming here
Wilhelm Schickard
1592 - 1635
built the first automatic calculator in 1623
Charles Babbage 1791 - 1871
designed the first programmable computer
Isaac Newton
1643 – 1727
Newtonian mechanics, Universal gravitation, Optics, and developed the Three Laws of Motion
Albert Einstein
1879 – 1955
Father of modern physics, General relativity, Brownian motion and Mass-energy equivalence
Blaise Pascal
1623 - 1662
Constructed a mechanical calculator capable of addition and subtraction, called the Pascaline
George Boole
1815 - 1864
Inventor of Boolean algebra, the basis of all modern computer arithmetic
Al-Khawarizmi
780 - 850
The word algebra is derived from al-jabr, one of the two operations
used to solve quadratic equations, as described in his book.
Euclid
300 BC
known as Euclid of Alexandria, was a Greek mathematician, often referred to as
the "Father of Geometry."
Joseph Fourier
1768-1830
French mathematician and physicist best known for initiating the
investigation of Fourier series and their application to problems of heat transfer.
Gottfried Leibniz
1646 - 1716
Discovered the binary number system,
algorithmic information theory, and invented the calculus ratiocinator.
Ada Lovelace
1815 - 1852
The world's first computer programmer, known for having written a description
of Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the analytical engine
Pythagoras
570 - 495 BC
Discovering the Pythagorean theorem
John von Neumann
1903 - 1957
Described a computer architecture in which data and program
memory are mapped into the same address space. This architecture became the de facto standard
Max Planck
1858 – 1947
founder of the quantum theory, and thus one of the most important
physicists of the twentieth century. Planck was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918.
Grady Booch1955
Known for developing the Unified Modeling Language with Ivar Jacobson and
James Rumbaugh