Influencers in the Computing Industry

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Rasmus Lerdorf: Founder of PHP

[21 May 2011]

Greenland has its very own computing influencer! Way back in 1995, Rasmus Lerdorf got PHP (PHP Hypertext Preprocessor) off the ground and thus ...

Jonathan Ive: Apple in his eye

[05 Feb 2011]

He is an industrial enginner, British-born and promoted to Apple's vice president of industrial design by Steve Jobs in 1997. Ive and his design ...

Richard Stallman: freeing software

[05 Feb 2011]

He crusades against the clutches of vendor-led computing and is know as the "father oof free computing". He founded the Free Software Foundation ...

Andrew Vitterbi: wireless man

[05 Feb 2011]

He invented the wi-fi signal processing algorithm in 1967 as a way to correct errors in noisy digital communications links. It is also used ...

Tim Berners-Lee: WWW inventor

[05 Feb 2011]

First working at Plessey, and then at CERN in Geneva, Berners-Lee, wrote 'Enquire' in 1980 which linked fragments of information together. In ...

Ray Ozzie: software architect extraordinaire

[05 Feb 2011]

He is chief software architect at Microsoft, and is "responsible for oversight of the company's technical strategy and product architecture" ...

Andy Hopper: Cambridge entrepreneur

[05 Feb 2011]

He gained a Cambridge PhD in 1978 and co-founded computer maker Acorn. Acorn later spun of chip-maker ARM.

Gordon Moore: he made Moore's Law

[05 Feb 2011]

His quick calculations and extrapolations defined the pace of growth in computer power, and he went on to form chipmaker giant Intel.

Vinton Cerf: Godfather of the Internet

[05 Feb 2011]

Also know as Vint Cerf, and is Chief Internet Evangelist for Google. He co-designed TCP/IP and the architecture of the Internet.