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Inventors, engineers and architects who built the machines, networks and skylines.
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Engineer 49
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Founder 38
Computer Scientist 29
Executive 24
Architect 17
Physicist 10
Author 6
Industrialist 6
Investor 6
Educator 5
Designer 4
Mathematician 4
Philanthropist 4
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Claude Shannon 1916–2001Technology & InventionMathematician and engineer who founded information theory, the basis of all digital communication.
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.
Charles Proteus Steinmetz 1865–1923Engineering & ArchitectureElectrical engineer whose work on alternating current systems powered the electrification of America.