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People Decade Early Bell Bell Labs Business Digital Electronics Math Wireless Telegraph Switching

Claude Shannon

Father of information theory

John R. Pierce

Pulse code modulation co-developer

William Shockley

William Shockley

Transistor co-inventor

John Bardeen

Transistor co-inventor

Walter Brattain

Walter Brattain

Transistor co-inventor

Max Mathews

Bell Labs computer music pioneer

Ken Thompson

Unix co-creator

Brian Kernighan

Brian Kernighan

Unix and C co-developer

Dennis Ritchie

UNIX co-creator

Manfred R. Schroeder

Manfred R. Schroeder

Speech coding innovator

Bishnu S. Atal

Speech coding innovator

Erna Schneider Hoover

Erna Schneider Hoover

Computerized telephone switching innovator

Amos E. Joel Jr.

Amos E. Joel Jr.

Electronic switching and cellular innovator

Marian Croak

Voice over IP inventor

Robert Kahn

TCP/IP co-developer, 'father of the Internet'

Bjarne Stroustrup

Bjarne Stroustrup

Steve Jobs

Early phone phreak and iPhone inventor

Dawon Kahng

MOSFET co-inventor

Raymond W. Ketchledge

Raymond W. Ketchledge

Telephone switching innovator

Ruth A. Weiss

Programming language innovator

Steve Wozniak

Early phone phreak

Esther M. Conwell

Esther M. Conwell

Semiconductor innovator

Jessie MacWilliams

Jessie MacWilliams

Coding theory innovator

Laurie Spiegel

Electronic music innovator

George Stibitz

Relay-based computer circuitry pioneer

John Tukey

Data analysis pioneer and FFT developer

Mohamed M. Atalla

Mohamed M. Atalla

MOSFET co-inventor

Vint Cerf

TCP/IP co-developer, 'father of the Internet'

Yann LeCun

Machine learning pioneer

Bernard M. Oliver

Bernard M. Oliver

Pulse code modulation co-developer

Maurice Karnaugh

Maurice Karnaugh

Developed pulse code modulation at Bell Labs

Simon Sze

Floating-gate memory co-inventor

Dennis Hayes

Robert Metcalfe

Robert Metcalfe

Ethernet Co-inventor

Alec Reeves

Pulse code modulation co-developer