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Herman Hollerith

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Seymour Cray

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Walter Houser Brattain

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Jay Forrester

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Douglas Engelbart

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Ivan Sutherland

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An Wang

An Wang was a Chinese-American engineer whose innovations significantly shaped the development of computer hardware. He...

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Dawon Kahng

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9.0 Excellent

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George E. Smith

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James Clark

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Jaap Haartsen

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Carver Mead

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