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• John Backus
  
  1924 Philadelphia [USA] † 2007
  

  John Backus is the father of FORTRAN (an acronym for FORmula TRANslator), the first high-level programming language that had a major commercial impact.
  He developed it at IBM with the intention of making it easier to program its calculators with a language more similar to the language of mathematics.

• Douglas Engelbart
  
  1925 Portland [USA] † 2013
  

  He is considered the father of the mouse, among many other contributions to modern computing.

• Seymour Cray
  
  1925 Chippewa Falls [USA] † 1996
  

  Cray is known as the father of supercomputers because he designed a series of computers that were the fastest in the world for decades.

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• Ray Kassar
  
  1928 New York [USA] † 2017
  

  Ray Kassar was an American businessman, Chairman and CEO of Atari from 1978 to 1983.

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• Gordon Moore
  
  1929 San Francisco [USA] † 2023
  

  He was an American engineer and physicist, co-founder of Intel and author of Moore's Law.

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• Jay Miner
  
  1932 [USA] † 1994
  

  He was an integrated circuit designer, best known for developing multimedia chips for the Atari 2600 and Atari 8-bit families and as the "father of the Amiga".

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