Saturday, November 30, 2013

John Edward Warnock

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John Edward Warnock was born on October 6, 1940. He is an American computer scientist who co-founded Adobe Systems Inc. with Charles Geschke. He was president of Adobe for his first two years and Chairman and CEO for the last 16 years at the company. He retired in 2001, but still co-chairs with Geschke. Warnock was a recipient of the National Medal of Technology.  For more info click here 

Ada Lovelace, the mother of the modern computer

she was born December 10, 1815 into a very wealthy family, after it was discovered that she had a talent for numbers and science she was put into the care of tutors who helped her develop these skills. at the age of 17 she was able to meet Charles Babbage a well known mathematician who was working on the worlds first calculator. she was astonished by the machine, but that didn't stop her from suggesting changes that could be made in order to give the computer more functionality. she developed the first algorithm, and became the worlds first computer programmer.   

Friday, November 29, 2013

Namihei Odaira

Namihei Odaira is the founder of the major Japanese technology company known as Hitachi.
He was born January 15, 1874 about 100 km outside of Tokyo, Japan and died October 5, 1951
Was a Japanese Entrepreneur and philanthropist
Namihei acted as the Managing Director and later the President of Hitachi.
 For more information on Namihei Odaira, click here

Thursday, November 28, 2013

Michael Dell

Born in Huston Texas February 23 1965 Michael Dell was born. He is the man how founded Dell inc. one of the worlds leading computer brands. Dell was the youngest CEO to have his company in fortune magazine at the age of 27. Dell has received the 2013 Franklin Institute's Bower Award for Business Leadership. he is the 41 richest man in the world. $15.9 billion as of March 2012.Click here to learn more

Larry Page

Larry" Page is an American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur who is the co-founder of Google, alongside Sergey Brin. On April 4, 2011, Page succeeded Eric Schmidt as the chief executive officer of Google. He was born on March 26 1973. In 1998, Brin and Page founded Google, Inc. Larry ran Google as co-president along with Brin until 2001 when they hired Eric Schmidt as Chairman and CEO of Google. In January 2011 Google announced that Page would replace Schmidt as CEO in April the same year.

Douglas Engelbart

Douglas Engelbart was born on January 30, 1925 and died on July 2, 2013. He always dreamed to use computers to connect individuals in a network. He was an American engineer and inventor of the computer mouse. He decided in the 1950's that he would rather focus on making the world a better place instead of having a steady job. Douglas won the 1997 A.M. Turing Award, the highest honor in computer science for his inspiring vision of the future. For more info click here

Jack dorsey

Jack Dorsey was the man behind the massive social network know as twitter.
Jack was born November 19, 1976. he was raised in St. Louis, Missouri. At the age of 13 Jack became very interested in dispatch routing. Some of the open source soft ware he made is still used be taxis today
He became a app designer and was later known for being a co- founder and co- creator of twitter.
for more information about Jack, click here: http://www.biography.com/people/jack-dorsey-578280

Markus Alexej "Notch" Persson ----- The Creator of Minecraft and company Mojang

Markus Persson was born on June 1, 1969. He is a Swedish video game producer and designer. He began on his fathers computer when he was seven years old. He experimented a few different programs and made his own game at the age of 8. Now he owns Mojang, the company he created with two friends. His reason for creating Mojang was for the purpose of Minecraft. This game rapidly gaind popularity after its tech demo in 2009. Because of this game, he gained significant notability withing the video game industry.

Wednesday, November 27, 2013

The Man behing Facebook : Mark Zuckerburg

On May 14, 1984, the future billionaire child  was born. Two decades later, on February 4, 2002, the largest social networking site was launched. Zuckerburg had created one of the most used social networks in the world, Facebook It was first open to Harvard students, then to other colleges then eventually open to everyone. It is a website that connects people together through an online system of personal profiles, exchanging messaging, updating statuses etc. As of March 2013, there are around 1.15 billion people around the world on Facebook, making it the most social networking serviced used by people! Zuckerburg is now a billionaire and ranks among the top 100 richest people in the world!

For more info on Facebook or Mark Zuckerburg, click the following link here.

John Vincent Atanasoff

John Atanasoff was the inventor of the first electronic digital computer, with the help of an electric engineer named Clifford E. Berry. This computer was called the ABC which stands for the Atanasoff-Berry Computer. This computer was not a general-purpose computer, but instead it was created to solve systems of simultaneous up to 29 linear equations. This means this computer could take in two linear equations at once with 29 variables and a constant. Then the computer would eliminate the variables and figure out the solution. This computer could not store program instructions which makes it different from modern computers. John Atanasoff was born Oct. 4, 1903 and died June 15, 1995. To learn more about John Atanasoff click here.

Wednesday, November 20, 2013

George E. Gerpheide

You may not have heard the name before but George E. Gerpheide was the creator of the touch pad mouse commonly found on laptops. Since 1994 touch pads have become a big part of the laptop world being sleek and not taking up much space. George also founded the Cirque Corporation that further promoted touch technology. George has also been part of many other technology related products and studies and has won many awards for his work. To see more of George's accomplishments and to find more information, click here.

Jonathon James

Jonathon James was a computer hacker who hacked into NASA and downloaded enough info to learn how the International Space Station worked. He was convicted and sent to prison. When he was fifteen he managed to hack into networks like Bell South, Miami-Dade, the U.S. Department of Defense and also NASA. The info that he had got from NASA costed $1.7 million. NASA shut down there network for three weeks while investigating it and cost them $41,000.