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in the field of
mation Techno
bmitted by:
Katleen T. Martin
BM102A
bmitted to:
Mr. Dominic M. Ladaga
Steve Jobs
Steve
Jobs,
the
cofounder and chief executive
of Apple Computer, topped
the Computer Weekly 40th
anniversary poll due to the
devoted following he has
generated
through
his
pioneering work in personal
computing
and
product
design.
Tim
Berners-Lee
Bill Gates
James
Gosling
Linus
Torvalds
Richard Stallman is
the founder of the GNU
Project, an initiative to
develop a complete Unixlike operating system
which is free software.
Stallman
has
written
several popular tools,
created the GNU license
and campaigns against
software patents.
Richard
Stallman
Arthur Clarke
2001:
A
Space
Odyssey writer Arthur
Clarke has consistently
been ahead of his time
in
predicting
how
technology will change
the world. Most notably,
in 1945 he suggested
that
geostationary
satellites would make
ideal telecoms relays.
Ted
Codd
created 12 rules on
which
every
relational database
is
built
an
essential ingredient
for
building
business computer
systems.
Ted Codd
Steve Shirley
With
Brent
Hoberman, Martha Lane
Fox
created
Lastminute.com in 1998,
and as "the face" of
Lastminute raised the
profile of e-commerce
ever higher in the public
consciousness.
Martha
Lane Fox
Ken Olsen
Clive Sinclair is
the founder of
Sinclair
electronics,
Sinclair line of
computers.
He is also a
home
computer
visionary.
Clive Sinclair
Vinton Cerf
Vinton Cerf is
one
of
the
internet's
founding fathers.
He is also one of
the fathers of the
Internet
and
"Chief
Internet
Evangelist"
at
Google.
Bill Joy
Larry Ellison is
a
Jewish
billionaire and the
founder of the
technology
company Oracle.
Larry Ellison
Steve
Wozniak is the
Apple co-founder.
Steve
Wozniak
Dennis Ritchie
is the inventor of
the
C
programming
language.
Dennis
Ritchie
Donald Davies
is the co-inventor
of
packet
switching.
Donald
Davies
Ken
Thompson is the
co-creator
of
Unix.
Ken
Thompson
Grace
Hopper is a
COBOL pioneer.
Grace Hopper
Paul Allen
Steve Ballmer
is
the
Chief
Executive Officer
(CEO) of Microsoft
Corporation.
Steve Ballmer
Jeff Bezos
Sergey Brin is
the
Google
search
engine
co-founder and
billionaire
Internet
Entrepreneur.
Sergey Brin
Steve Case is
the AOL (America
Online)
founder.
He is also an
Internet
Entrepreneur.
Steve Case
Mark Cuban is
a
billionaire
Internet
Entrepreneur and
NBA
basketball
team owner.
Mark Cuban
Michael Dell is
the founder of Dell
Computers and he
is
a
wealthy
American
billionaire .
Michael Dell
David Filo is an
American
billionaire
cofounder of the
Yahoo!
search
engine
and
internet
portal
with Jerry Yang.
David Filo
Andy Grove is
one
of
the
founding
members of the
Intel Corporation.
Andy Grove
Takafumi Horie
is a flamboyant
young
Japanese
Internet
Entrepreneur
of
the
Livedoor
Internet Company.
Takafumi
Horie
Craig
Craig
Newmark is a
famous
American
Internet
Entrepreneur
and founder of
the
free
Newmarkclassifieds
website
Craigslist.
Pierre Omidyar
is
the
eBay
founder
and
billionaire Internet
Entrepreneur.
Pierre Omidyar
Larry Page is a
billionaire co-founder
of the successful
Google
search
engine.
Larry
Page
Bob Parsons is
the
Go
Daddy
domain
name
registrar founder
and he is also an
Internet
Entrepreneur.
Bob Parsons
Eric Schmidt is
a Technologist and
Chief
Executive
Officer (CEO) of the
Google company.
Eric
Schmidt
Meg Whitman is
the former Chief
Executive
Officer
(CEO) of the online
auction
website
eBay.
Meg
Whitman
Jerry Yang is a
billionaire Yahoo!
Incorporated cofounder.
Jerry Yang
Mark
Zuckerberg is the
famous American
billionaire founder
of
the
social
networking
site
Facebook.
Mark
Zuckerber
g
H.
Edward
Roberts
is
the
creator of the first
popular
personal
computer - MITS
Altair 8800.
H. Edward
Roberts
Chuck Peddle
is the designer of
the 6502 CPU and
the
Commodore
PET
2001
computer.
Chuck
Peddle
Lee
Felsenstein is the
designer of the
early
successful
computers - Sol20, Osborne 1.
Lee Felsenstein
Jack Tramiel is
the founder and
Chief
Executive
Officer (CEO) of
Commodore
computer
company.
Jack Tramiel
Gary
Kildall
created the first
popular computer
operating system CP/M.
Gary Kildall
Andrew Kay is
the inventor of
the
DMM,
founder
of
Kaypro,
which
created
the
Kaypro line of
portable
computers.
Andrew Kay
Azim Premji
N.R.
Narayana Murthyis
theGURU
of
Information
Technology.
He is the cofounder ofInfosys
Technologies and
is one of the most
well
known
personalities in the
Indian IT sector.
Software
tycoonMr.
Azim
Premjiis Indias Bill
Gates and one of the
Richest Indian for the
past several years.
He is the Founder
and Chairman ofWipro
Technologies one of
the largest software
companies in India.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Sabeer
the co-
Sabeer Bhatia
Gary Morolo became
the CEO of the company
which he and Reuel Khoza
founded,
called
Coordinated Marketing &
Management (Pty) Ltd. in
1986. He also became the
Non-Executive Chairman
of two listed investee
companies,
Datacentrix
Holdings Limited and IST
Group Limited, at their
listing in the technology
sector of the JSE Limited
in1998.
Bhatiawas
founder
ofHotmail.com
theworlds
first
webmail service.
He has
announced
three
more
ventures
after
Hotmail.
Gary Morolo
Vinny
Lingham
Rob
is a
Chief
Sussman
joint
Executive
Officer
(CEO)
and
joint
founder
of
Integr8 Group.
Rob
Sussman