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Key People

Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs

American businessman

Bill Gates

Bill Gates

American computer programmer, businessman, and philanthropist

Ellison, Larry

Larry Ellison

American business executive

Ray Kurzweil

American computer scientist and futurist

Azim Premji

Azim Premji

Indian businessman

Tim Berners-Lee

Tim Berners-Lee

British scientist

Marissa Mayer

Marissa Mayer

American software engineer and businesswoman

Narayana Murthy

Indian businessman

Reed Hastings

Reed Hastings

American entrepreneur

Steve Ballmer

Steve Ballmer

American businessman

Pattie Maes

Belgian-born software engineer and entrepreneur

Fernando Corbató

American physicist and computer scientist

Shai Agassi, 2008.

Shai Agassi

Israeli entrepreneur

Amir Pnueli

Israeli 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

Bill Joy

American software developer and entrepreneur

Fred Brooks

American computer scientist

Alan Jay Perlis

American mathematician and computer scientist

Margaret Hamilton

Margaret Hamilton

American computer scientist

Jack Dorsey

American Web developer and entrepreneur

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