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- Ada Lovelace
- (December 10, 1815 - November 27, 1852) British mathematician known for being the world's first computer programmer as well as envisioning computers as more than just military number crunchers
- Alan Mathison Turing
- (June 23, 1912 - June 7, 1954) English computer scientist known as the "father of computer science"; inventor of a famous test, which is used as an empirical basis for what makes a computer a computer
- Bill Gates
- (born October 28, 1955) American co-founder of Microsoft Corporation and developer of Windows; he was the richest man in the world for many years before he gave away a lot of his wealth to charity
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Ada Lovelace was actually born Augusta Ada Byron, the only child of poet Lord Byron and mathematician Lady Byron.
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Alan Turing helped invent the 'Tunny' machine, which cracked the Germans' 'Enigma machine' encryption code during World War II.
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The boy told his mother he wanted to be as rich as Bill Gates.
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