February 4th

Kenneth Thompson, one of the creators of the UNIX operating system, was born in New Orleans

year 1943

February 5th

Nolan Bushnell, inventor of computer games, founder of Atari, one of the most successful businessmen of Silicon Valley, who in previous years was called the philosopher of the game, was born in Clairville.

year 1943

February 6th

Safe Internet Day. The purpose of the holiday is to inform people about responsible and safe use of the Internet

year 2004

February 7

Wang An was born, an electronics engineer and entrepreneur who invented a magnetic core storage device in 1948, which was used in computers before the use of microchips

year 1920

February 8

Nikolai Yakovlevich Matyukhin, the chief designer of computers for the air defense systems of our country, was born in Leningrad. Nikolai Yakovlevich Matyukhin was the chief designer of many computers and systems of important defense importance

year 1927

February 9th

the Russian scientist Mikhail Alexandrovich Bonch-Bruevich was born, who created an electronic relay

year 1888

February 11th

Richard Wesley Hamming was born in Chicago, one of the founders of coding theory, the author of the famous textbook "Coding Theory and Information Theory", translated into Russian in 1983

year 1915
year 1927

In 1927, Vsevolod Sergeyevich Burtsev was born in Moscow, an academician, one of the largest designers of high—performance computing machines and complexes for managing objects operating on a real-time scale in our country

February 13

William Bradford Shockley was born in London, an American physicist, one of the inventors of the transistor (semiconductor triode)

year 1910

February 15

Evgeny Andreevich Zhogolev, one of the first Russian programmers and one of the creators of the trinity "Setuni", Honored Professor of Lomonosov Moscow State University, who worked at this educational institution for half a century, was born in the city of Sengiley, Ulyanovsk region

year 1930
year 1934

Niklaus Wirth, one of the most outstanding creators of programming languages in the XX century, was born in the small Swiss town of Winterthur

February 21

Igor Vasilyevich Pottosin was born — one of the closest associates of A.P. Ershov and leading Russian scientists in the field of computer science

year 1933

February 22

Thomas Kurtz, one of the creators of the Basic programming language, was born in Illinois

year 1928

February 23

Michael Dell was born — the founder of Dell Computer Corporation, one of the world leaders in the development and production of computer systems, software and peripherals

year 1965

February 24th

Stephen Paul Jobs was born in the USA — one of the creators of the Apple personal computer, who opened the Apple Computer company on April 1, 1976, together with Stephen Gary Wozniak

year 1955

February 29

Herman Hollerith was born in Buffalo, the founder of the counting and perforating technology, the immediate predecessor of modern computers

year 1860