Masako Wakamiya is a retired banker who creates fun apps for people in her age range to increase their interest in smartphones. Her app, Hinadan, is an iOS based game.
Fun fact: Masako learned to use a computer at the age of 60.
Jeff Bezos is the founder and CEO of Amazon.
Fun fact: Jeff is the founder of Blue Origin, a company with plans for suborbital human spaceflight by 2018.
Ada Lovelace is known as the world's first computer programmer.
Fun fact: Ada created the first computer-processed algorithm.
Reshma Saujani is the founder of the organization Girls Who Code.
Fun fact: Reshma was the first Indian-American woman to run for Congress.
Mark Zuckerberg is the Cofounder, Chairman and CEO of Facebook.
Fun fact: At the age of 12 Mark created a messaging program that his father used in his dental office to know when patients arrived in the office.
Dennis Ritchie was a computer scientist who created the C programming language.
Fun Fact: Dennis loved to read and travel.
Steve Jobs was the cofounder of Apple Inc.
Fun Fact: Steve created the first Apple computer in his parents’ garage.
Grace Hopper was a computer scientist as well as an officer in the United States Navy.
Fun Fact: Grace helped popularize the term computer bug because she was present when an actual moth was found in a computer.
John McCarthy was the inventor of Lisp,a group of coding languages invented to do logic programming.
Fun Fact: John coined the term artificial intelligence.
Katherine Johnson is a mathematician and physicist who contributed to the United States aeronautics and space programs.
Fun Fact: Katherine was one of the three African-American children hand-picked to integrate into West Virginia's graduate schools.
Bill Gates is the cofounder of Microsoft.
Fun Fact: Bill and his wife founded the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which is dedicated to philanthropy.