Famous
People Behind Computers And Technology
1.
Tim Berners-Lee
Sir Tim Berners-Lee is a British computer scientist who has
single-handedly changed the course of human history. In 1989, he
proposed a new information management system. A mere eight months later,
he received the first successful communication from a Hypertext
Transfer Protocol via the internet. Since then, Berners-Lee’s initial
proposal, the World Wide Web, has become a vital part of nearly every
household, business, school, and government in the world. In 2012, he
was honored as the official inventor of the internet at the Olympics
Opening Ceremony in London. During the ceremony, he live tweeted “This
is for everyone,” words which were instantly spelled out in LCD lights
attached to chairs in the crowd. Berners-Lee is currently the director
of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), through which he oversees the
internet’s continued development.
2. Sergey Brin
Sergey Brin is the co-founder of Google, one of the most profitable
internet companies of all time. He is an American computer scientist who
emigrated from the Soviet Union at age six. As a PhD student at
Stanford University, Brin and his friend, Larry Page, crammed a bunch of
cheap computers into their dorm room and developed Brin’s data mining
system. The mining system became so popular at Stanford, that the two
eventually decided to drop out, rent a garage, and start Google. Since
then, Brin’s personal wealth has been estimated at more than $32
million. The Economist has declared Brin an “Enlightened Man,” which is
an appropriate title considering Google’s mission statement has always
included the idea that “knowledge is always good, and certainly better
than ignorance.”
3. Larry Page
Larry Page is an American business magnate and computer scientist best
known for co-founding Google. He is the inventor of PageRank, the
foundation of Google’s search ranking algorithm and an important part of
the company’s initial success. Google has won countless awards since
its founding in 1998, and Page himself has been named a Global Leader
for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum, and one of the most exciting
innovators in the world by MIT Technology Review. As of 2014, Page’s
estimated personal wealth exceeded $32 million, securing his spot as the
17th richest man in the world.
4. Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckberg is the American computer programmer and internet
entrepreneur responsible for developing Facebook in his Harvard dorm
room. Facebook, Inc., for which Zuckerberg currently serves as CEO, has
continued to grow exponentially since Zuckerberg first moved the company
to Palo Alto, California. The social media website currently boasts
over 1 billion users worldwide. Every year since 2010, Time magazine has
included Zuckerberg on their lists of the 100 wealthiest people, most
influential people, and as part of their annual Person of the Year
feature. Though his official salary as CEO of Facebook is exactly $1,
Zuckerberg’s personal wealth is estimated at $33.1 billion.
5. Bill Gates
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As the co-founder and former chief executive of Microsoft, the
world’s largest personal-computer software company, the name Bill Gates
has become synonymous with computer science. Gates and his Microsoft
co-founder Paul Allen started Microsoft in the Poker Room of the Currier
House at Harvard University. As the company grew, Gates became known as
the entrepreneur behind the personal computer revolution. Since
retiring from Microsoft, Gates has become better known as a business
magnate, philanthropist, and investor, though he will always be best
known as a computer programmer and inventor. He is consistently ranked
on the Forbes list of wealthiest people and is currently the second
richest person in the world.
6. Elon Musk
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South African-born Elon Musk is best known as the business magnate,
investor, and inventor responsible for founding companies like SpaceX,
Tesla Motors, and SolarCity, and for his futuristic (and currently only
hypothetical) high-speed transportation system known as the Hyperloop.
But Musk makes this list because he is the designer of PayPal, the
revolutionary online program through which users can pay bills, collect
fees, manage purchases, and more. Though Musk has since passed along the
main responsibilities of PayPal, he currently acts as the CEO and CTO,
CEO, and Chairman of SpaceX, Tesla Motors, and SolarCity respectively.
7. Linus Torvalds
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Finnish-born Linus Torvalds is the creator of Linux, a popular open
source operating system. Linux has been adapted into thousands of
variations, and many web servers run using the system. Torvalds, who
currently acts as Linux’s project coordinator, is also the creator of
Git, a revision control system, and Subsurface, a diving log software.
In 2012, Torvalds was honored by the Technology Academy Finland with the
Millennium Technology Prize in recognition of his creation of the Linux
kernel.
8. David Axmark
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Swedish-born David Axmark is one of the founders of MySQL AB and a
developer of MySQL, both of which are free database servers. Axmark has
been involved with free software since 1980, and has proven himself
committed to developing the business model for free open-source
software. In 2010, he became the director of OrangeHRM, the world’s most
popular open-source human resource management software. In 2012, Axmark
announced the development of his newest project, the MariaDB
Foundation, a community-developed, MySQL relational database management
system.
9. John D. Carmack
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John D. Carmack is a successful programmer of game software. He is
the co-founder of id Software, and the current lead programmer of
related id Computer Games, the company behind such popular games as
Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake, and their sequels. Carmack
is best known for his innovations in 3D graphics, including “adaptive
tile refresh,” “raycasting,” “binary space partitioning,” “surface
caching,” “Carmack’s Reverse,” and “Mega Texture technology,” among
others. These innovations have been licensed for use and implemented
into the design of other influential, first-person shooter games,
including Call of Duty, Half-Life, and Medal of Honor.
10. Ben Goodger
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Ben Goodger is a New Zealand-born British software engineer. After
starting his career with the Netscape Communications Corporation,
Goodger began working with the Mozilla Foundation, where he was a lead
developer of the popular Firefox web browser. Currently, Goodger is a
lead in the user experience department at Google, where his main focus
is the continued development and success of Google Chrome.
11. John Resig
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John Resig is an entrepreneurial software engineer and developer of
jQuery, the multi-browser JavaScript library which functions by
simplifying the client-side of HTML. In addition to working as a
JavaScript programmer, Resig is a published author, blogger, programmer
for the Mozilla Corporation, and current application developer for the
Khan Academy. He has contributed to a number of JavaScript libraries,
including processing.js, EnvJS, TestSwarm, Sizzle, and FUEL. He is a
frequent presenter at SXSW, Webstock, MIX, and Tech4Africa.
12. James Gosling
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James Gosling is a software developer best known for his
participation in the development of the popular Java programming
language. Gosling is generally credited with creating the original Java
design, and implementing the original compiler and virtual machine.
Though he started his career with Sun Microsystems, Gosling left the
company when it was acquired by the Oracle Corporation, citing the
“ethical challenges” of remaining. In 2011, he was hired by Google, but
left five months later to join the start-up Liquid Robotics. In 2002,
Gosling was awarded The Economist Innovation Award, and in 2007, he was
named an Officer in the Order of Canada, the second highest civilian
honor.
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