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Also Known As Robert Elliot Kahn • Bob Kahn
Born December 23, 1938 (age 86) • New York City • New York
Awards And Honors Presidential Medal of Freedom (2005) • Turing Award (2004) • Draper Prize (2001)
Vinton Gray Cerf
Vinton Cerf
American computer scientist
Computer interface pioneer Douglas EngelbartEngelbart holding a video conference on the right side of the computer screen while working on a document with a remote collaborator during a 1968 computer conference in San Francisco, California.
Douglas Engelbart
American inventor
Paul Baran
American electrical engineer
Leonard Kleinrock
American computer scientist
Lawrence Roberts
American computer scientist
Steve Wozniak in 2014
Steve Wozniak
American electronics engineer
Jay Wright Forrester
American engineer
Seymour Cray
American engineer
Mauchly, John
John Mauchly
American physicist and engineer
Bill Gates
Bill Gates
American computer programmer, businessman, and philanthropist
Jack Kilby
American engineer
Martin Cooper
American engineer
Harold Rosen
American engineer
Robert H. Dennard
American engineer
Ivan Sutherland
Ivan Sutherland
American electrical engineer and computer scientist
John Warner Backus
American mathematician
Konrad Zuse
German engineer
Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee
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Sir Frederic Williams
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Ray Tomlinson
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