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Technology & Invention
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Tim Berners-Lee b. 1955Technology & InventionBritish-American computer scientist who invented the World Wide Web, revolutionizing global information sharing.
Larry Page b. 1973Technology & InventionCo-founder of Google whose search algorithm became the foundation of the modern internet economy.
Sergey Brin b. 1973Technology & InventionCo-founder of Google who helped develop the PageRank algorithm and expanded into AI and autonomous vehicles.
Grace Hopper 1906–1992Technology & InventionComputer scientist and Navy rear admiral who helped develop early programming languages and computing.
Claude Shannon 1916–2001Technology & InventionMathematician and engineer who founded information theory, the basis of all digital communication.
Marvin Minsky 1927–2016Technology & InventionBuilt the first neural network learning machine, then wrote the book blamed for burying the idea.
Ray Kurzweil b. 1948Technology & InventionBuilt the first machine that read print aloud to the blind, then spent decades predicting when machines would surpass us.
Vint Cerf b. 1943Technology & InventionCo-designer of the TCP/IP protocols that form the foundation of the internet.
Dennis Ritchie 1941–2011Technology & InventionCreated the C programming language and co-developed Unix at Bell Labs.
Marc Andreessen b. 1971Technology & InventionCo-author of the first web browser and co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, a leading venture capital firm.
Douglas Engelbart 1925–2013Technology & InventionEngineer who invented the computer mouse and demonstrated interactive computing in 1968.
J. C. R. Licklider 1915–1990Technology & InventionThe 1960 paper that described interactive computing before it existed, and the ARPA money that produced the ARPANET
Donald Knuth b. 1938Technology & InventionWrote The Art of Computer Programming and created the TeX typesetting system.
John McCarthy 1927–2011Technology & InventionCoined the term artificial intelligence and created the Lisp programming language.
Margaret Hamilton b. 1936Technology & InventionDirected development of the Apollo onboard flight software and popularized the term software engineering.
Aaron Swartz 1986–2013Technology & InventionInternet activist and Reddit co-founder whose work on open access and web standards left a lasting legacy.
Ken Thompson b. 1943Technology & InventionCo-created Unix at Bell Labs and later co-designed the Go programming language.
Bob Kahn b. 1938Technology & InventionCo-inventor of the TCP/IP protocols alongside Vint Cerf, enabling modern digital communication.
John Mauchly 1907–1980Technology & InventionCo-inventor of ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer.
Alan Kay b. 1940Technology & InventionLed Smalltalk development at Xerox PARC and advanced graphical interfaces and personal computing concepts.
J. Presper Eckert 1919–1995Technology & InventionCo-inventor of ENIAC and pioneer of electronic computing alongside John Mauchly.
Bill Joy b. 1954Technology & InventionPrincipal author of Berkeley Unix and co-founder and chief scientist of Sun Microsystems.
John Backus 1924–2007Technology & InventionLed the IBM team that created FORTRAN and co-developed Backus-Naur notation.
Barbara Liskov b. 1939Technology & InventionDeveloped data abstraction in the CLU language and formulated the Liskov substitution principle.
John Atanasoff 1903–1995Technology & InventionPhysicist who built the first electronic digital computer, the Atanasoff-Berry Computer.
Radia Perlman b. 1951Technology & InventionDesigned the spanning tree protocol that made large bridged Ethernet networks practical.
Frances Allen 1932–2020Technology & InventionPioneered compiler optimization at IBM and was the first woman to receive the Turing Award.Clifford Berry 1918–1963Technology & InventionCo-inventor of the Atanasoff-Berry Computer, the first electronic digital computing device.