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Birth
Born in Finland on December 28, 1969. -
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Attended University of Helsinki
Masters in computer science. -
Pac-Man Clone
Created Pac-Man clone titled "Cool-Man". -
Linux
Created Linux -
Asteroid
In 1996, the asteroid 9793 Torvalds was named after him. -
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Transmeta
Worked at Transmeta -
Pioneer
In 1998, Torvalds received an EFF Pioneer Award. -
Innovator
named by the MIT Technology Review TR100 as one of the world's top 100 innovators under age 35 -
Important People
He was 17th in their Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century poll. -
Industry Achievement
InfoWorld presented him with the 2000 Award for Industry Achievement -
Love Lace
In 2000, he was awarded the Lovelace Medal from the British Computer Society. -
Time Magazine
Was named one of the most influential people in the world by Time magazine. -
Vollum
In August 2005, Torvalds received the Vollum Award from Reed College -
Hall of Fellows
In 2008, he was inducted into the Hall of Fellows of the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. -
Internet Hall of Fame
On April 23, 2012, at Internet Society's Global INET conference in Geneva, Switzerland, Torvalds was one of the inaugural inductees into the Internet Hall of Fame. -
IEEE
On April 23, 2014, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers named Torvalds as the 2014 recipient of the IEEE Computer Society's Computer Pioneer Award.