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Douglas Engelbart

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Alan Kay

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Marcian Hoff

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Tommy Flowers

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Leonard Adleman

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Stanley Mazor

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Masatoshi Shima

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Japanese 20TH Century Computing Microprocessor

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Mark Dean

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Hardware American 20TH Century Computing

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Sir Clive Sinclair

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