Friday, September 21, 2007

Gordon Moore: Co-founder and Chairman Emeritus of Intel Corporation and the author of Moore's Law

Alan Turing: Often considered to be the father of modern computer science. He devised a number of techniques for breaking German ciphers, including the method of the bombe, an electromechanical machine that could find settings for the Enigma machine. Creator of the Turing Test.

Steve Jobs: The co-founder and CEO of Apple and was the CEO of Pixar until its acquisition by Disney. He is currently the largest Disney shareholder^[7] and a member of Disney's Board of Directors. He is considered a leading figure in both the computer and entertainment industries.^[8]

Bill Gates:Is an American entrepreneur, philanthropist and chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen. During his career at Microsoft he has held the positions of CEO and chief software architect, and he remains the largest individual shareholder with more than 8% of the common stock

Larry Page: Co-founded the Google internet search engine, now Google Inc., with Sergey Brin. Page is currently the President of Products at Google Inc. and has a net worth estimated at 18.5 billion dollars, making him the 5th richest person in the America together with Sergey Brin according to Forbes' annual list of billionaires on 2007

Tim Berners - Lee: A British developer who with the help of Robert Cailliau invented the World Wide Web. Sir Timothy Berners-Lee is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (which oversees its continued development), and a senior researcher and holder of the 3Com Founders Chair at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).

Jeff Bezos: Is the founder, president, chief executive officer, and chairman of the board of Amazon.com. Bezos, a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Princeton University, worked as a financial analyst for D. E. Shaw & Co. before founding Amazon in 1994. He was TIME magazine's Person of the Year in 1999.

Steve Ballmer: Has been the chief executive officer of Microsoft Corporation since January 2000. Ballmer is the first person to become a billionaire (in U.S. dollars) based on stock options received as an employee of a corporation in which he was neither a founder nor a relative of a founder. In its 2007 World's Richest People ranking, Forbes Magazine ranked Ballmer as the 31st richest person in the world, with an estimated wealth of $15 billion.

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