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George Boole
George Boole worked in the fields of differential equations and algebraic logic.He is the inventor of the prototype of what is now called Boolean logic, which became the basis of the modern digital computer.
Died on 8 December 1865 -
John Von Neumann
John von Neumann was a mathematician. He made major contributions to a number of fields ,including mathematics, physics , economics, computer science(Model of Von Neumann) and statistics.
Died on 8 February 1957 -
Alan Turing
Alan Turing was a computer scientist. He gave a formalisation of the concepts of "algorithm" and "computation" with the Turing machine, which can be considered a model of computing a computer.
Died on 7 June 1954 -
Gordon Moore
Gordon Earle Moore is an American businessman and co-founder and Chairman Emeritus of Intel Corporation (Intel Corporation is an American multinational semiconductor chip maker corporation headquartered in Santa Clara) and the author of Moore's Law. In July 1968, Moore co-founded NM Electronics which later became Intel Corporation with Robert Noyce and served as Executive Vice President until 1975 when he became President. -
Philip Donald Estridge
Philip (Don) Estridge was serving as the IBM vice president, manufacturing, when he died in a plane crash, along with his wife, Mary Ann, on August 2, 1985. IBM's president and chief executive officer John F. Akers said at the time: "Don Estridge was a man of vision whose skill and leadership helped guide IBM's personal computer business to success. He had a very bright future in our business. He and Mary Ann will be greatly missed by all their friends and colleagues."
Died on 2 August 1985 -
Bob Kahn
Robert Elliot Kahn is an American Internet engineer,pioneer and computer scientist, who, along with Vint Cerf, invented the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the Internet Protocol (IP), the fundamental communication protocols at the heart of the Internet. While working on a satellite packet network project, he came up with the initial ideas for what later became the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), which was intended as a replacement for an earlier network protocol, NCP, -
Dennis Ritchie
Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie was an American computer scientist who "helped shape the digital era." He created the C programming language(C is a general-purpose programming language initially developed by Dennis Ritchie between 1969 and 1973 at AT&T Bell Labs.)and the Unix operating system(Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system that exists in many variants.) He was die in Murray Hill, on 12 ottobre 2011 -
Steve Jobs
Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs was the co-founder, chariman and CEO of Apple Inc.
He was one of the most influential people in the world in the last decade for the big trends that characterize Apple Inc. -
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee
Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee is a British computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web(The World Wide Web is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet.). He implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol(HTTP is an application protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems) and client/server to the Internet sometime around mid November. -
Bill Gates
Gates is the chairman of Microsoft. He Is currently the richest man in the world with an estimated fortune of $ 79 billion.
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Guido van Rossum
Guido van Rossum is the creator of the Python programming language.
He has been working for Google from 2005 to 2012 where he spent his time to continue the development of Python, from 2013 worked for DropBox -
Tim Paterson
Tim Paterson is the inventor of MS-DOS. It was the most widely used personal computer operating system in the 1980s.
In May 1981 he was hired by Microsoft where we rest for a year, after which he founded the Falcon Technology, which was later acquired by Microsoft where he returned alternately until 1998. -
Yukihiro Matsumoto
Yukihiro Matsumoto is the creator of the Ruby programming language . As of 2011, Matsumoto is the Chief Architect of Ruby at Heroku, an online cloud platform-as-a-service in San Francisco. He is a fellow of Rakuten Institute of Technology, a research and development organization in Rakuten Inc. -
Rasmus Lerdorf
Rasmus Lerdorf is famous for creating the PHP scripting language and authoring the first two versions of that language. -
Linus Torvalds
Linus Torvalds was the principal force behind the development of the Linux kernel. Linux is the most widespread free operative system. -
Larry Page
Larry Page is the co-founded (with Sergey Brin) of Google, one of the most profitable Internet companies. -
Sergey Brin
Sergey Brin is the co-founded (with Larry Page) of Google, one of the most profitable Internet companies. -
Shawn Fanning
Shawn Fanning has developed Napster, one of the first popular peer-to-peer ("P2P") in 1998. In 2003 he founded his own company working in multimedia, Snocap. In December 2006, he developed Rupture, a tool designed for Social Networking to share individual profiles of the players and to facilitate communication between the players of World of Warcraft. -
Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg is an American computer programmer and internet entrepreneur. He is known how one of five co-founders of the social network Facebook.
