Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie : 1941 -2011
Dennis Ritchie, a pioneer in computer programming and “helped shape the digital era. “Ritchie was best known as the creator of the C programming language and key developer of the Unix operating system with his long-time colleague Ken Thompson. He was co-author of The C Programming Language, and was the ‘R’ in K & R ( a well – known programming book written by Brian Bjarne Stroustrup was founder of C++.
Bjarne Stroustrup is one of the most notable Danish computer scientists who developed the widely used C++ programming language in 1983. He currently works as a Professor and as well as he holds the College of Engineering Endowed Chair in Computer Scienceat Texas A&M University, United States. James Gosling is known as the father of the Java programming language or best known as Founder of JAVA.
Gosling has worked with Sun Microsystems from 1984 to 2010.In 2011, he had been hired by Google as a chief software architect Rasmus Lerdorf is best known as Creator of PHP scripting Language.
Lerdorf developed PHP in 1995 and he has contributed to a number of other open source projects over the years.He is also not only known as inventor of PHP but also known as for being a notable open source developer, speaker and author.He has contributed to the Apache HTTP Server and he also added the LIMIT clause to the mSQLDatabase. He worked at Yahoo! as an Infrastructure Architecture Engineer from September 2002 to November 2009. Before joining to his work at Yahoo!, Rasmus worked at LinuxCare, IBM, and Bell Globis. In 2010, he joined WePay in order to develop their API. In February , 2012, he he had joined Etsy.com. |
Ted CoddEdgar Frank Ted Codd.He is the Father of the Relational Database.
He found 12 rules named E.F. Codd Rules to define how a relational database is constituted. One of the normal form is named after him i.e. the Boyce Codd normal form. The Term OLAP : Online Analytical Processing was coined by him with that 12 laws for that. Brendan Eich is a creator of the JavaScript Scripting Language.
He works at the Mozilla Corporation as a Chief Technology Officer. JavaScript was originally developed by Brendan Eich of Netscape Programmer under the name Mocha and then renamed to LiveScript, and finally to JavaScript.Eich is best known for his work on Netscapeand Mozilla. In April 1995, He started working on JavaScript underNetscape Communications Corporation. In 1998, he also co-founded the mozilla.org project, served as a chief architect. Linus Torvalds is the founder of Linux, an open source operating system.He is also known as creator the kernel for the GNU/Linux OS.
William Henry “Bill” Gates III.
Bill Gates co- founded ‘Microsoft Corporation‘ in 1975 with Paul G. Allen. He is co-founder, chairman of Microsoft Corporation and one of the wealthiest persons in the world. Gates is not only Chairman of Microsoft but he is chairman ofCorbis and Co-Chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, CEO of Cascade Investment. Gates wrote books named “Business @ the Speed of Thought“, “The Road Ahead”, ”Inside Out”. “640kb ought to be enough for anybody.” Is one of his famous quote said about IBM PC by Bill Gates |
Bill JoyWilliam Nelson Joy.He is mostly known as “Bill Joy”. He is the co-founder of Sun Micro systems. He is the founder of BSD – Unix. He is the author of the vi text editor. >> Paul Gardner Allen.>> Allen and Gates founded Microsoft in 1975.
>>Paul Allen, best known as the co-founder of Microsoft left the company in 1983 due to illness. >> He wrote the book named, “Idea Man: A Memoir by the Co-founder of Microsoft”. >> He is the founder and chairman of Vulcan Inc. Steve Paul Jobs – the co-founder ,CEO and chairman of Apple Inc.Steve Jobs was a great icon and visionary of Apple.
He has left his mark on personal computers with Apple II and Macintosh, on music with iPod and iTunes, on phone with iPhone and on animation with Pixar. On October 5th 2011 Steve Jobs died at the age of 56. Mark Elliot ZuckerbergThe youngest billionaire.
Mark Zuckerberg is Founder of Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg is the founder and CEO of Facebook – social networking site, he started in his college dorm room in 2004 with his room mates Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. He has been named Time Magazine’s Person Of The Year for 2010. Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web (WWW).
He is the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) – a Web standards organization founded in 1994 which oversees the Web’s standards and development. |