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Makes me think of Charles Babage and Ada Lovelace. I do not think either got much recognition until relatively recently.

• chuckadams 2y ago
  They're hardly obscure: I was learning CS back when rocks were soft and Babbage was a well-known historical figure. And Ada Lovelace has a language named after her. Konrad Zuse on the other hand ... not so many props thrown his way -- for obvious reasons, given the timing, but that doesn't have to continue.
  • TheAmazingRace 2y ago
    Konrad at least got to live to see the evolution of computers up to the micro-computing era, as he died in the mid 90s. I bet he had to have been blown away by the rapid progress since WWII. One of his later systems was even proven to be Turing-complete! Pretty impressive for someone having absolutely no knowledge of what was happening elsewhere, like at Bletchley Park...
  • shombaboor 2y ago
    does anyone else remember babbage's the store? That's how I became aware of who he was
    • jeremyjh 2y ago
      Oh sure. Hadn't thought about them in a long time. But yes I'd say Babagge was quite well known due to that. With Ada, I was a little older before I'd heard of her, but I definitely had heard about her even before studying computer science.
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