Charles Babbage
"The Father of Computing"
December 26, 1791 - October 18, 1871
Charles Babbage was a computer scientist that attended Trinity College Cambride. Trinity was founded by Kind Henry VIII in the year 1546. He was the founder of the college's Anylytical Society which promoted the advancement and reform of mathematics. He created the Diffence Engine in 1832 which was used to print mathmatical tables. This invention led to the creation of the Analytical Engine in 1856. The Analytical Engine has lots of similarities of the modern computers of today.
Tim Berners-Lee
"TimBL"
June 8th, 1955 - Present
Tim Berners-Lee was a computer scientist that graduated from University of Oxford in 1976. He is known all over the world for his invention... The World Wide Web which he created in 1989. Before he created WWW he worked as a software engineer at a physics lab in Geneva, Switzerland called CERN. He developed the first model of HTML which stands for "Hypertext Markup Language." He is also a ComSci professor at Oxford. He has also won many prizes for his creations.