IIT INVENTORS

For every world-famous name with a world famous

fortune, such as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Michael
Dell, there are hundreds of other individuals who
have moved the IT industry and its technology
inexorably forward.
STEVE JOBS

Steve Jobs, the co-founder and chief executive of Apple

Computer, topped the Computer Weekly 40th
anniversary poll due to the devoted following he has
generated through his pioneering work in personal
computing and product design.
TIM BERNER LEE

Tim Berners Lee is the father of the web and champion of IT

freedom. He made the imaginative leap to combine the internet with
the hypertext concept, and the worldwide web was born.
 In 1994, Berners-Lee founded the World Wide Web Consortium
(W3C) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It comprised
various companies willing to create standards and recommendations
to improve the quality of the web.
BILL GATES

As joint founder of the world’s biggest software company,

Microsoft, Bill Gates’s approach to technology and business
was instrumental in making technology available to the
masses. Gates stood down as the CEO of Microsoft in 2000
to focus on software development.
JAMES GOSLING

In 1984, Gosling joined Sun Microsystems where he is currently the

chief technology officer in the developer product group.
 In the early 1990s, Gosling initiated and led a project code-named
Green that eventually became Java. Green aimed to develop software
that would run on a variety of computing devices without having to
be customized for each one.
LINUS TORVALDS

As the creator of the Linux operating system, Linus Torvalds has
been a driving force behind the whole open source movement, which
represents an ever increasing challenge to proprietary software.
 Torvalds remains the ultimate authority on what new code is
incorporated into the Linux kernel.
RICHARD STALLMAN

Richard Stallman is the founder of the GNU Project, an initiative to

develop a complete Unix-like operating system which is free
software. Stallman has written several popular tools, created the
GNU license and campaigns against software patents.
DENNIS RITCHIE

Dennis Ritchie is the inventor of the C programming

language.
DONALD DAVIES

Donald Davies is the co-inventor of packet

switching.
KEN THOMPSON

Ken Thompson is the co-creator of Unix.

MICHAEL DELL

Michael Dell is the founder of Dell Computers and he

is a wealthy American billionaire .
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SUBMITTED BY:

RUNJHUN MISHRA

CLASS-VII-A