Costs Admittance, the second-richest man, doesn’t think you need anywhere near to that much revenue. In spot, he would select on on for a five or six followed by six zeros. “I can recognize looking for to have revenue, personal certain mobility, significant mobility, that comes with that. But once you get much beyond that, ...
Linus Torvalds once said, referring to the development of Linux, which “raised [her] on the shoulders of giants.” Among these giants, Dennis Ritchie (also known as DMR) was probably the biggest. Ritchie, the creator of the programming language C and co-developer of the Unix operating system died on October 8 at the age of 70 ...
Steve Jobs stepped down as Apple’s CEO on Wednesday and Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook was named as his replacement. Jobs will remain with the company as chairman of the board. Following are some highlights and key events in Jobs’ career at Apple thus far. 1971 — Meets Steve Wozniak, with whom Jobs will later ...
Niklaus Wirth Image: Wikimedia Commons Wirth designed several programming languages, but is best known for creating Pascal. He won a Turing Award in 1984 for “developing a sequence of innovative computer languages.”
Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf Prolific internet pioneers, these two teamed up to build the Transmission Control Protocol and the Internet Protocol, better known as TCP/IP. These are the fundamental communication technologies at the heart of the Internet
Dan Bricklin He’s “The Father of the Spreadsheet.” Working in 1979 with Bob Frankston, he created VisiCalc, a predecessor to Microsoft Excel. It was the killer app of the time — people were buying computers just to run VisiCalc.
Tim Paterson Image: Wikipedia via The History Of Computing Project He wrote QDOS, an operating system that he sold to Bill Gates in 1980. Gates rebranded it as MS-DOS, selling it to the point that it became the most widely-used operating system of the day.
Richard Greenblatt Greenblatt is often considered a father of the hacker community — his interests in chess and programming led him to develop Mac Hack, the first computer software to play chess. Artificial intelligence skeptic Hubert Dreyfus loudly proclaimed that computers would never play quality chess. He was handily beaten by Greenblatt’s program
Ed Roberts He founded Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems in 1970 as a means to sell electronics kits to model rocketry hobbyists, but he’ll be most remembered for inventing the Altair 8800, a do-it-yourself personal computer kit that sold like crazy. His creation is so widely recognized as being a major spark to the microcomputer ...
John McCarthy Image: Fogus.me McCarthy invented Lisp, the second-oldest high level programming language that’s still in use to this day. He’s also responsible for bringing mathematical logic into the world of artificial intelligence — letting computers “think” by way of math.