(Computer History) Some important people in Computer and IT
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Dennis Ritchie ( 1941 Sept 09 -- 2011 Oct 12 )
His major contributions were development of Unix and C programming lang.
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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
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Bill Gates (1955 Oct 28 -- )
William Henry Gates is founder of Microsoft and also a well known Billionaire.
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Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee (1955 Jun 8 -- )
Known as Inventor of WWW and first web browser.
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Mark Zukerberg (1984 May 14 --)
Founder of Facebook
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Linus torvalds (1969 Dec 28 -- )
Developer of Linux Kernel and Git.
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Jack Ma (1964 Sept 10 -- )
Founder of Alibaba Company
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Larry Page (1973 Mar 26 -- )
Founder of Google, Alphabet Inc. and Page Rank.
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Jeff Bezos (1964 Jan 12 -- )
Founder of Amazon.com
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Ray Tomlinson (1941 Apr 23 -- 2016 Mar 5)
Creator of Email.
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Alan Turing (1912 Jun 23 -- 1954 Jun 7)
Known for Turing Machine, Turing Test and much more.
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Charles Babbage (1791 Dec 26 -- 1871 Oct 18)
Known for Analytical Engine and also called Father of Computer.
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Ada Lovelace (1815 Dec 10 -- 1852 Nov 27)
First Computer Programmer.
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James Goshling / Dr. Java (1955 May 19 --)
Developer of Java
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Kevin David Mitnick (1963 Aug 6 --)
Well Known hacker.
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Edward Snowden (1983 Jun 21 -- )
Well Known Hacker.
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