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Who would you vote for?

The Communications magazine that is published by ACM had an article based on a survey that listed a top ten Technology Influencers list. Intel organized a panel of experts to vote for the 45 most influential figures in technology over the last 150 years. Yes, that's not a typo, 150 years!

Top ten:

1. Tim Berners-Lee (www)

2. Sergey Brin (Google)

3. Larry Page (Google)

4. Gugliemo Marconi (radiotelegraph)

5. Jack Kilby (integrated circuit and calculator)

6. Gordon Moore (Intel)

7. Alan Turing ( Pioneer in deciphering German Code in WWII)

8.  Robert Noyce (Intel)

8. William Shockley( co-inventor transistor)

10. Don Estridge (IBM)

 

So, what's your take on this list?  No Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Dr. John G. Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz. Anyone you'd take off the list?

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Print | posted on Friday, April 04, 2008 8:43 AM

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I'd drop the Google guys in a heart beat. The people who created AltaVista got that whole thing going in the first place. They may have made a better search engine and really figured out how to market ads on it but really its not such a big deal compared to other things. I'd place Grace Hopper ahead of them for her work getting standards in place for computer languages. Marconi is important but if you are going to name the Google guys just for market success than Bell ranks higher. And where is Edison on that list? Not in the top ten? Give me a break.

I'd put Metcalfe ahead of Berners-Lee BTW. As amazing as the web is the Ethernet technology really is the hardware base that the whole Internet runs on these days.

And yes I'd include Gates on the list. Maybe Jobs as well.
Left by Alfred Thompson on Apr 06, 2008 3:24 PM

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