TIM COOK
Timothy D. “Tim”
Cook (born November 1, 1960) is the new CEO of Apple. Cook joined Apple in March 1998 as SVP of Worldwide Operations and also served as EVP of Worldwide Sales and Operations and was COO until he was named the CEO of Apple on August 24, 2011,
succeeding Steve Jobs, who died on October 5, 2011, from pancreatic cancer.
ALAN COOPER
Alan Cooper (born June 3, 1952) is an American software designer and programmer. He is widely recognized as the “Father of Visual
Basic,"
SEYMOUR CRAY
Seymour Roger
Cray (September 28, 1925 – October 5, 1996) was an American electrical engineer and supercomputer architect who designed a series of computers that were the
fastest in the world for decades, and founded Cray Research which would build many of these machines. Called "the
father of supercomputing,"
KEN THOMPSON
Kenneth Lane
Thompson (born February 4, 1943), commonly referred to as ken in hacker circles. Thompson is notable for his work
with the B programming language, the C programming language, and as one of the creators and early
developers of the Unix and Plan
9 operating systems.
CHARLES
BABBAGE
Charles Babbage, FRS (26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871) was an English mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer
who originated the concept of a programmable computer. Considered a "father of the computer"
LARRY PAGE
Lawrence
"Larry" Page (born March 26, 1973) is the co-founder of Google. On April 4, 2011, he took on the role of chief executive officer of Google, replacing Eric Schmidt. He is the inventor of Page Rank, which became the foundation of Google's search
ranking algorithm.
JOHN MCCARTHY
John McCarthy (September 4, 1927 – October 24, 2011) invented the term
"artificial intelligence" (AI), developed the Lisp programming language family, significantly influenced the
design of the ALGOL programming language, popularized timesharing, and was very influential in the early
development of AI.
TIM BERNERS LEE
Sir Timothy John
"Tim" Berners-Lee, (born 8 June 1955), also known as "TimBL", is an English computer scientistknown as the inventor of the World Wide Web. Berners-Lee is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which oversees the Web's continued development.
MARISSA ANN MAYER
Marissa Ann
Mayer (born May 30, 1975) is the current president and CEO of Yahoo!. Previously, she was a long-time executive and key
spokesperson for Google. She is the youngest CEO of a Fortune 500 company.
SABEER BHATIA
Sabeer Bhatia (born December 30, 1968) is an Indian American entrepreneur who co-founded the Hotmail email service. Hotmail is the first email service
