ICT Hall Of Fame
Charles Babbage:
December 26, 1791Charles Babbage designed and oversaw the construction of an unfinished prototype called the Difference Engine, an early calculator. He also conceptualized the Analytical Engine, which loaded instructions using punch cards, similar to those used in Jacquard looms.
Ada Lovelace:
December 10, 1815Ada Lovelace collaborated with Charles Babbage to develop a language of logical and mathematical expressions for the first computer device.
Grace Hopper:
December 9, 1906Grace Hopper was an American mathematician, computer scientist, physicist, and officer in the United States Navy. - She is credited with creating the first programs for the Mark 1 Calculator and the first true compiler for a programming language, among other achievements.
Gordon Moore:
January 3, 1929Gordon Moore is an American entrepreneur and co-founder of Intel. - He formulated Moore's Law. - He is one of the "Traitorous Eight," the group that founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957. - In 2008, he received the prestigious IEEE Medal of Honor for his groundbreaking contributions to electronics.
Ed Roberts:
September 13, 1941Ed Roberts was an American engineer, entrepreneur, and physician who founded the company Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS) in 1970. - With MITS, he sold kits for hobbyists to build model rockets. - He is known as "the father of the personal computer."
Steve Wozniak:
August 11, 1950Steve Wozniak is an American engineer. He co-founded the computer company Apple on January 3, 1977, along with Steve Jobs and Ronald Wayne. His nickname is Woz.
Steve Jobs:
February 24, 1955Steve Jobs was the co-founder and CEO of Apple and served on the board of directors of Pixar Animation Studios. After Disney acquired Pixar, Jobs became a member of Disney's board of directors. Although he received a symbolic salary of one dollar per year, he was the highest-earning CEO in the U.S. in 2006 with stock income of $646.6 million. Jobs is considered a pioneer in the computer industry. After seeing a demonstration of the graphical user interface with windows and a mouse at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), he incorporated this interface into the Apple Lisa, which was expensive and sold poorly but was quickly succeeded by the Apple Macintosh. He also played a key role in the development of OS X.
Bill Gates:
October 28, 1955William Henry (Bill) Gates III is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist. Gates is best known as the figurehead and co-founder of the company Microsoft.
Kevin Mitnick:
August 6, 1963Kevin Mitnick is one of the most famous convicted hackers. He began bypassing systems as early as age 12.
Rich Skrenta:
June 6, 1967Rich Skrenta is a computer programmer and entrepreneur from Silicon Valley who invented the web search engine Blekko.
Linus Torvalds:
December 28, 1969Linus Torvalds is responsible for the creation of the Linux kernel and, by distributing the code under the General Public License, brought the free software movement to the attention of a wide audience for the first time.
Larry Page:
March 26, 1973Larry Page is an American computer scientist and internet entrepreneur who co-founded Google Inc., a company that began with an internet search engine. With a net worth of $48.8 billion (2018 Forbes), he ranks among the 15 wealthiest people in the world.
Sergey Brin:
August 21, 1973Sergey Brin is a Russian-born American computer scientist and internet entrepreneur who co-founded Google along with Larry Page.
Chad Hurley :
January 24, 1977Chad Hurley initially worked for eBay and PayPal. In 2005, he co-founded the website YouTube along with Steve Chen and Jawed Karim.
Jawed Karim:
October 28, 1979Jawed Karim is an internet entrepreneur of Bengali-German origin and co-founder of YouTube. He was also the first person to upload a video to the site.
Mark Zuckerberg:
May 14, 1984During Mark Zuckerberg's time at Harvard University, he co-founded the website Facebook in 2004 with Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz, Sean Parker, and Chris Hughes.