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Permalink Reply by Alexander Tolkan on September 4, 2010 at 1:30pm

Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs. Both had huge contributions to the computing world.

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Permalink Reply by Jerry Dunham on September 4, 2010 at 4:02pm

Jack Kilby. Without Jack, or someone else just as smart and focused on the same problems, no personal computers.

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Permalink Reply by Abhay Rangray on September 4, 2010 at 4:43pm

I heard someone telling me about Dennis Ritchie being the most important. He created the C Language

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Permalink Reply by Jerry Dunham on September 4, 2010 at 5:56pm

Dennis would rank quite high, but I'm a hardware guy and have to go with Jack. I actually had an e-mail exchange with Dennis once upon a time (close to 20 years ago), so perhaps I ought to brag on that for extra geek points. Unfortunately, I no longer recall the subject.

See Dennis' Bell Labs page at: http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/

Lots of interesting historical links there.

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Jerry Dunham
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