People Timeline
This is a timeline of people I am assembling to support storytelling, I will be added people over time, but have started with the women in compute, and will be working through the cybernetics, and early compute next. Then I will ponder the modern people I want to be tracking on as part of research and storytelling on API Evangelist.
1745 - 1827
Alessandro Volta ElectricityChemistPhysicsPowerBatteries
1775 - 1836
André-Marie Ampère ElectricityPhysicsMethematicsTelegraph
1791 - 1871
Charles Babbage ComputeInventorMechanicalPhilosopherMathematician
1791 - 1872
Samuel Morse CommunicationsTelegraphMorse CodeInventor
1791 - 1867
Michael Faraday ElectricityChemistPhysicistMagentismElectrolysis
1797 - 1851
Mary Shelley AuthorScience FictionFeminists
1815 - 1852
Ada Lovelace Women in TechComputeMathematicsSoftware
1815 - 1864
George Boole ComputeLogicMathematicsPhilospher
1830 - 1904
Eadweard Muybridge PhotographyVideosMoving PicturesMotion PicturesProjection
1847 - 1931
Thomas Edison ElectricityCommunicationsSoundsAudioRecording
1856 - 1943
Nikola Tesla ElectricityTelephonyCommunications
1860 - 1929
Herman Hollerith Cybernetics
1866 - 1946
H. G. Wells AuthorScience Fiction
1874 - 1937
Guglielmo Marconi RadioCommunicationsTelegraphElectricityPhysics
1883 - 1959
Edith Clarke Women in Tech
1885 - 1942
John R. Brinkley RadioBorder BlastersMisinformationWellness
1894 - 1964
Norbert Wiener CyberneticsMathmaticsPhilosophyElectronicsControl Systems
1894 - 1978
Warren Weaver MathematicianMachine Translation
1895 - 1970
Arturo Rosenblueth CyberneticsMedicalPhysiologyBehavior
1897 - 1996
Gertrude Blanch Women in Tech
1898 - 1969
Warren McCulloch CyberneticsNeurophysiologistNeural NetworksArtificial IntelligenceFeedback
1900 - 1986
Ida Rhodes Women in Tech
1901 - 1984
Grete Hermann Women in Tech
1901 - 1978
Margaret Mead CyberneticsAnthropologyLSDGender
1903 - 1972
Ross Ashby CyberneticsPsychiatryBrains
1903 - 1957
John von Neumann CyberneticsMathematicsPhysicsEconomicsComputingStatistics
1904 - 1980
Gregory Bateson CyberneticsAnthropologySocial ScienceVisual AnthropologySemiotologySystems
1904 - 1990
B.F. Skinner BehavioirPsychologistInventorSocial PhilosopherOperant Conditioning
1905 - 1977
Rósa Péter Women in Tech
1906 - 1992
Grace Hopper Women in TechSoftwareCobolProgramming
1910 - 2002
John Robinson Pierce RadioCommunicationMicrowavesComputer MusicPsychoacousticsScience Fiction
1910 - 1989
William Shockley PhysicistElectricalTransistorsSemiconductors
1911 - 2002
Heinz von Foerster CyberneticsPhysicsPhilosophyArtificial INtelligenceEpistemologyBiophysics
1911 - 2009
Qian Xuesen CyberneticsAerodynamicsAerospaceRockets
1912 - 1954
Alan Turing MathematicsComputersLogicCrypanalystPhilospherTheoretical Biologist
1913 - 1985
Sister Mary Kenneth Keller Women in Tech
1913 - 2003
Julian Bigelow CyberneticsElectricalFeedback
1914 - 2000
Hedy Lamarr Women in TechNetworksWirelessCommunications
1915 - 1990
J. C. R. Licklider InternetComputeNetworksARPANET
1915 - 1985
Orson Welles RadioDirectorActorWriterMagician
1916 - 2001
Claude Shannon CyberneticsMathematicianElectricalComputeCryptographerCommunicationsArtificial IntelligenceCircuits
1917 - 2001
Betty Holberton Women in Tech
1919 - 2001
Nathaniel Rochester ComputeArtificial Intelligence
1921 - 1972
Beatrice Helen Worsley Women in Tech
1921 - 2006
Kay McNulty Women in Tech
1922 - 2012
Frances Spence Women in Tech
1922 - 2022
Kathleen Booth Women in Tech
1923 - 2017
Phyllis Fox Women in Tech
1923 - 1969
Walter Pitts CyberneticsNeuroscienceCognitive ScienceArtificial Neural networksArtificial Intelligence
1924 - 2003
Evelyn Boyd Women in Tech
1924 - 2011
Jean Bartik Women in Tech
1924 - 2015
Joan Margaret Winters Women in Tech
1924 - 1986
Ruth Lichterman Women in Tech
1924 - 2014
Thelma Estrin Women in Tech
1925 - 2013
Douglas Engelbart ComputeHuman-Computer INteractionAugmentationMouseNetworksGraphical User Interfaces
1926
Erna Schneider Hoover Women in Tech
1926 - 2002
Stafford Beer CyberneticsManagementOperations
1927 - 2016
Marvin Minsky CognitiveArtificial INtelligence
1928 - 2015
Irma Wyman Women in Tech
1928 - 2017
Jean E. Sammet Women in Tech
1928 - 2008
Marlyn Wescoff Women in Tech
1931
Elizabeth J. Feinler Women in Tech
1932 - 2020
Frances E. Allen Women in Tech
1933
Dame Stephanie Women in Tech
1935 - 2007
Karen Spärck Jones Women in Tech
1937
Mary Allen Wilkes Women in Tech
1937
Ted Nelson InformationPhilosophySociologyHypertextHypermedia
1938 - 2024
Lynn Conway Women in Tech
1938
Donald Knuth ComputeProgrammingSoftwareComplexity
1938
Robert Kahn InternetNetworksTCP/IP
1938
Stewart Brand StoriesWhole Earth CatalogDrugsCounter Culture
1939
Barbara Liskov Women in TechCompute
1939
Dana Ulery Women in Tech
1942 - 1996
Mario Savio ActivismFree Speech
1943
Mary Shaw Women in Tech
1943
Vint Cerf InternetNetworksTCP/IP
1944 - 2022
Lorinda Cherry Women in Tech
1945
Adele Goldberg Women in TechComputeSmalltalkPARC
1947
Sandra Kurtzig Women in Tech
1949 - 2003
Anita Borg Women in TechComputeSoftware
1950 - 2019
Sally Floyd Women in Tech
1950
Susan Estrada Women in Tech
1950
Susan Hares Women in Tech
1950
Susan Nycum Women in Tech
1951
Maria Klawe Women in Tech
1951
Radia Perlman Women in Tech
1953
Roberta Williams Women in Tech
1954
Susan Kare Women in Tech
1955
Carla Meninsky Women in Tech
1955
Carol Shaw Women in Tech
1955
Donna Dubinsky Women in Tech
1955
Irene Greif Women in Tech
1955
Judith Estrin Women in Tech
1955
Tim Berners-Lee InternetComputeHTMLHTTP
1957
Éva Tardos Women in TechMathematicsAlgorithms
1957
Frances Brazier Women in Tech
1957
Sophie Wilson Women in Tech
1958
Janese Swanson Women in Tech
1959
Shafi Goldwasser Women in Tech
1960
Monica S. Lam Women in Tech
1965
Mary Lou Jepsen Women in Tech
1967
Kimberly Bryant Women in Tech
1967
Rebecca Enonchong Women in Tech
1967
Xiaoyuan Tu Women in Tech
1969
Ellen Spertus Women in Tech
1969
Linus Torvalds ComputeLinuxOperating Systems
1974
Jeri Ellsworth Women in Tech
1975
Window Snyder Women in Tech
1977
Juliana Rotich Women in Tech
1978
Melanie Rieback Women in Tech
1978
Rana el Kaliouby Women in Tech
1980
Limor Fried Women in Tech
1981
Audrey Tang Women in TechTransSoftwareCompute
1981
Joanna Rutkowska Women in Tech
1982
Ruchi Sanghvi Women in Tech
I am also exploring another perspective on this landscape with [my resource timeline to look at API providers by the digital resources they provide](https://apievangelist.com/timeline-resource/). Additionally, I have started studying the early regulation of industries such as railroads, telecommunications, electricity, and radio—[creating a timeline to help me understand how regulation unfolded for these industries](https://apievangelist.com/timeline-industry/), and why we pushed it forward.