PC Hardware, Part 2
37 entries in the PC Hardware, Part 2 compendium.
Mark Dean (computer scientist)Co-creator of the IBM PC and developer of the ISA bus.Nick DeWolfCo-founder of Teradyne, designer of the first computer-operated IC tester.J. Presper EckertCo-inventor of ENIAC and designer of the UNIVAC.Joel EmerPioneer in quantitative computer architecture and performance analysis.Douglas EngelbartPioneer of human–computer interaction and inventor of the computer mouse.Bill English (computer engineer)Co-creator of the first computer mouse prototype.Lee FelsensteinDesigner of the first mass-produced portable computer and influential early personal computing engineer.Tommy FlowersDesigned and built the world's first programmable electronic computer.Dirk GatesFounder of Xircom and Xirrus, pioneer of notebook Ethernet adapters.John Gustafson (scientist)American computer scientist known for Gustafson's law and unum number format.Bil HerdEngineer who designed the Commodore 128 and other 8-bit home computers.Marcian HoffOne of the inventors of the microprocessor.Harry HuskeyAmerican computer design pioneer who worked on ENIAC, EDVAC, and Pilot ACE.Jim Keller (engineer)Microprocessor engineer; lead architect of AMD K8 and x86-64.Raja KoduriIndian computer engineer who led GPU architecture at AMD and Intel.Sergey Lebedev (scientist)Soviet scientist who designed the first Soviet computers.Samuel LubkinMathematician and computer scientist who designed early digital computers.David May (computer scientist)Lead architect of the transputer and founder of XMOS Semiconductor.Dirk MeyerFormer AMD CEO who led Athlon development and focused on PC market.John Murphy (engineer)Inventor of ARCNET, the first commercial networking system.Ken OlsenCo-founder of Digital Equipment Corporation and minicomputer pioneer.Adam OsborneCreator of the first commercially successful portable computer.Chuck PeddleMain designer of the 6502 microprocessor and Commodore PET.William PoduskaFounder of Prime, Apollo, and Stellar Computer companies.Victor PoorCo-created the architecture behind the first successful microprocessor, the Intel 8008.Hal PrewittBusinessman, inventor, artist, and race car driver.Bashir RameevSoviet inventor and founder of Soviet electronic computing.Justin RattnerIntel CTO who led the first teraFLOPS supercomputer.Tim Ryan (engineer)Founder of Midiman/M-Audio, pioneer in digital audio.Tony SaleEngineer who rebuilt the Colossus Mark II computer.Sasikanth ManipatruniLead author of Intel's 2018 MESO paper for beyond-CMOS computing.Helmut SchreyerGerman inventor who contributed to the Z3 and early electronic computing.Dave Smith (engineer)Engineer who created the Prophet-5 and led MIDI development.Chris TomicGerman inventor of the UCP protocol for mobile binary messaging.Joseph WeisbeckerEarly microprocessor designer, creator of CHIP-8 and COSMAC systems.Hardware accelerationCustom hardware performs specific functions faster than general-purpose CPU software.AES instruction setProcessor instructions accelerating AES encryption and decryption.
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