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   Tim Berners-Lee

   On 25 December 1990 he implemented the first successful communication between an HTTP client and server via the Internet with the help of Robert Cailliau and a young student staff at CERN. ... While at Queen's, Berners-Lee built a computer with a soldering iron, TTL gates, an M6800 processor and an old television.
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   Claude Shannon

   But he is also credited with founding both digital computer and digital circuit design theory in 1937, when, as a 21-year-old master's student at MIT, he wrote a thesis demonstrating that electrical application of Boolean algebra could construct and resolve any logical, numerical relationship. ... He is also considered the co-inventor of the first wearable computer along with Edward O. Thorp.
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   J. Presper Eckert

   Dr. John Mauchly, then chairman of the physics department of nearby Ursinus College, was a student in the summer electronics course, and the following fall secured a teaching position at the Moore School. ... In the following months, Eckert and Mauchly started up the Electronic Control Company which built the Binary Automatic Computer (BINAC).
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   Tic-tac-toe

   One example of a Tic-Tac-Toe playing computer is the Tinkertoy computer, developed by MIT students, and made out of Tinker Toys.
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   Manfred Clynes

   At Juilliard, he was a piano student of Olga Samaroff and Sascha Gorodnitzki. ... In that year he invented the CAT computer (Computer of Average Transients) a $10,000 portable computer permitting the extraction of responses from ongoing electric activity—the needle in the haystack.
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   DePaul University College of Computing and Digital Media

   Computer Science ... The year also marked the start of a partnership between CTI and the Permanent Missions of the United Nations, through which CTI students would develop the websites of a number of developing countries.
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   Charles W. "Chuck" Durham

   Durham was a student under John Vincent Atanasoff, who along with his graduate assistant Clifford Berry, invented the world's first electronic digital computer .
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   Wikipedia

   In August 2007, a website developed by computer science graduate student Virgil Griffith named WikiScanner made its public debut.
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   Raymond Kurzweil

   The capabilities of this invention were so impressive that, in 1965, he was invited to appear on the CBS television program I've Got a Secret, where he performed a piano piece that was composed by a computer he also had built. ... The program, called the Select College Consulting Program, was designed by him and compared thousands of different criteria about each college with questionnaire answers submitted by each student applicant.
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    Jamshīd al-Kāshī

    His best work was done in the court of Ulugh Beg, and it is said that he was the king’s favourite student. ... Al-Kashi also invented a mechanical planetary computer which he called the Plate of Zones, which could graphically solve a number of planetary problems, including the prediction of the true positions in longitude of the Sun and Moon, and the planets in terms of elliptical orbits; the latitudes of the Sun, Moon, and planets; and the ecliptic of the Sun.

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• Tim Berners-Lee,
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• Tic-tac-toe,
• Manfred Clynes,
• DePaul University College of Computing and Digital Media,
• Charles W. "Chuck" Durham,
• Wikipedia,
• Raymond Kurzweil,
• Jamshīd al-Kāshī