Influencers in the Computing Industry

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.


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