(Computer History) Some important people in Computer and IT
Dennis Ritchie ( 1941 Sept 09 -- 2011 Oct 12 ) His major contributions were development of Unix and C programming lang. Steve Jobs (1955 Feb 24 -- 2011 Oct 5) Founder of Apple company. Ken Thompson (1943 Feb 4 -- ) Developer of B programming lang. , Unix and also known for utf-8 Bill Gates (1955 Oct 28 -- ) William Henry Gates is founder of Microsoft and also a well known Billionaire. Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee (1955 Jun 8 -- ) Known as Inventor of WWW and first web browser. Mark Zukerberg (1984 May 14 --) Founder of Facebook Linus torvalds (1969 Dec 28 -- ) Developer of Linux Kernel and Git. Jack Ma (1964 Sept 10 -- ) Founder of Alibaba Company Larry Page (1973 Mar 26 -- ) Founder of Google, Alphabet Inc. and Page Rank. Jeff Bezos (1964 Jan 12 -- ) Founder of Amazon.com Ray Tomlinson (1941 Apr 23 -- 2016 Mar 5) Creator of Email. Alan Turing (1912 Jun 23 -- 1954 Jun 7) Known for Turing Machine, Turing Test and much more. Charles