Well here I would like to list some of the very important personalities that made a big impact sothat todays Computing will be the way it is right now; if some people are left whom you think should be included in the list, you can e-mail me to extend this list.
Right now working In: ........................
Was born: August 23, 1954, in Akure, Nigeria.
Written Books:
Little Story:
Philip Emeagwali, mathematician and computer scientist. Born in 1954, in Nigeria, Africa. President Bill Clinton called him "one of the great minds of the Information Age" and CNN called him "A Father of the Internet." Invented an international network that was similar to, but predated that, of the Internet. Discovered mathematical equations that enable the petroleum industry to recover more oil. Won the 1989 Gordon Bell Prize, computation's Nobel prize, for inventing a formula that lets computers perform the fastest computations, work that led to the reinvention of supercomputers.
Emeagwali has the oldest personal website on the planet.
Awards and Honors:
Distinguished Scientist Award
Gordon Bell Prize
The Eagle Award
Computer Scientist of the Year
Scientist of the Year
Website: http://www.emeagwali.com/
Right now working In: Open Source Development Labs (OSDL)
Was born: 28 December 1969, Helsinki, Finland.
Written Books(as co-author):
Just For Fun -- The Story Of An Accidental Revolutionary
Little Story:
Linux is an operating system that was initially created as a hobby by a young student, Linus Torvalds, at the University of Helsinki in Finland. Linus had an interest in Minix, a small UNIX system, and decided to develop a system that exceeded the Minix standards. He began his work in 1991 when he released version 0.02 and worked steadily until 1994 when version 1.0 of the Linux Kernel was released. The current full-featured version is 2.4 (released January 2001) and development continues.
Awards and Honors:
The World Technology Awards 2001
Annual "Excellence in Programming" Awards
Website: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/torvalds/
Right now working In: Texas A&M University and also retains a link to AT&T
Was born: Aarhus Denmark 1950
Written Books:
The C++ Programming Language
The Design and Evolution of C++
The Annotated C++ Reference Manual
Little Story:
Bjarne Stroustrup is the creator of C++, one of the most widely used languages that allows object-oriented programming. He also authored The C++ Programming Language and The Design and Evolution of C++. Stroustrup is currently the head of AT&T Labs's large-scale programming research department in New Jersey. His research interests include distributed systems, operating systems, simulation, design, and programming..
Awards and Honers:
ACM/Fellows Award
Website: http://www.research.att.com/~bs/homepage.html
