10 World Figure in Technology

Being famous, wealth and a strong influence in changing the lives of many people would be the dream of every person born into the world. In addition to hard work, good fortune and also needed destiny that dream come true. I once heard a motivational speech that "prayer without effort is a lie. While business without praying is arrogant". So, to be successful as its predecessors, we sweat spilled over shall be accompanied by the worship of the Creator.

And one of the areas that have a major impact in changing the world civilization, especially if it is not the world of Information and Technology? Here is a short article about 10 people among hundreds of world leaders known for his service in the IT field, check this out!!

1. James Gosling

James Gosling OC, Ph.D. is a software developer. Famous as the father of the Java programming language, Gosling was born near Calgary, Alberta, Canada on May 19, 1955. Java itself is a programming language and tools created by James Gosling and his friends in 1994. Java was originally named Oak and was developed as part of the Green Project in Company Sun. Writing Java began in December 1990. Patrick Naughton, Mike Sheridan, and James Gosling trying to figure out the "next wave" in computing science.

Major Oak, taken from an oak tree that grew in front of the workspace window by James Gosling. Major Oak is not used for Java release version as the other software has been registered with the trademark, the replacement name to "Java". The name is taken from the ground pure coffee directly from bean (black coffee) Gosling's favorite. It is said that this coffee comes from the island of Java. So the name of the Java programming language is nothing but derived from the Javanese (English for Java is Java).


2. Linus Benedict Torvalds

Linus Torvalds was born in Helsinki, Finland, on December 28, 1969. In the age of 10 years stepped on, Linus began dabbling in computer programming. By using a computer belonging to his grandfather, Commodore VIC-20, computing became his hobby.

In 1988 Linus accepted a student at the University of Helsinki, Finland. In 1990, Linus launch its first C programming class. In 1991, Linus bought his first PC, and he was not satisfied with the operating system on the computer at that time. His computer when it was running MS-DOS (Disk Operation System, Microsoft's operating system), but Linus is more likely to use the UNIX operating system, such as those Computers on his university. Finally, he decided to create a version that can be used under on PC from UNIX. Working hard for months produced the forerunner of the operating system known as Linux, which eight years later developed into what is said by many observers as a threat to the well-known giant Microsoft with its Windows operating system.


3. William Nelson Joy

Bill received his BSEE (Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering) from the University of Michigan in 1975. Then he continued his education to the University of California Berkeley, where he received a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. There is also, for many years he was chairman of the Unix version designer Barkley (BSD). Then the man who was familiarly called this Bill and his group had the support of DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) to continue the project. The project then became the backbone of the concept of "open source".



4. Adam Osborne

Adam Osborne was born in Thailand in 1939, and spent his childhood in Tamil Nadu, southern India, with both parents are British. Osborne moved to England at the age of 11 years, and in 1961 he graduated from the University of Birmingham as a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering. After moving to America, he completed his education at the University of Delaware as a Ph.D. in chemical engineering, and quickly found a job in Shell Oil. Adam Osborne himself was one of the holders of important and influential role in the early history of the PC.



5. Dennis Ritchie Mc Allistair

Dennis Ritchie Mc Allistair with his partner, Ken Thompson, managed to make the language of the most famous in the world of computers rival the English in the real world. The language is the language C.

Dennis M Ritchie was born in the middle of World War 2 on September 9, 1941 in Bronxville New York. Graduated from Harvard in Physics in 1963 and continued his education at Harvard until earning his Ph.D. in Mathematics. Note also that the geniuses in the field of "science" is usually like math.




6. Lawrence Larry Ellison


Lawrence Joseph "Larry" Ellison was born on August 17, 1944. Was a prominent American business, founder and CEO of Oracle Corporation which is one of the largest database of software companies in the world. You could say Larry Ellison who makes Oracle into a Relational Database System concepts needed by various industries in the world as it is today. Start creating database concept in 1970, 40 years later he advances the concept has become an important joint of industries the world and a variety of businesses that exist today. In 2011 he was fifth in Forbes' world's richest, with a personal fortune reached $ 39.5 billion, -.

Ellison graduated from Eugene Field Elementary School, Elementary School on the north side of Chicago in January 1958 and went on to Sullivan High School at least until the fall of 1959 before moving to the South Shore. Ellison grew up in a two-bedroom apartment in South Chicago in a middle-class Jewish neighborhood. Ellison's adoptive mother as a person given a warm and loving, unlike the harsh nature he inherited from his adoptive father, a Russian Jew from the Crimea who adopted the name Ellison to honor the island where he went to the United States, Ellis Island. Louis, his adoptive father, was a modest government employee who is looking for a small fortune in Chicago real estate, only to eliminate during his depression.

Ellison was a bright but inattentive student. He left the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign at the end of the second year, after not taking a final exam adopted by the adoptive mother just died. After spending a summer in Northern California, where he lived with his friend Chuck Weiss, he attended the University of Chicago for one term, where he first met and designing computer. In 1964, at age 20, he moved to northern California permanently. During the year 1970, after serving briefly at Amdahl Corporation, Ellison worked for Ampex Corporation. One of his projects was a database for the CIA, which he named "Oracle".


7. Steve Jobs

Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs was born in San Francisco, California, USA, February 24, 1955. He died in Palo Alto, California, USA, October 5, 2011 at the age of 56 years. He is a business leader and inventor of the United States. He is the co-founder, chairman, and former CEO of Apple Inc.. Jobs also previously served as chief executive officer of Pixar Animation Studios, he became a member of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company in 2006, after taking control of Pixar by Disney. His name is listed as an executive producer in the film Toy Story in 1995.

In the late 1970s, Jobs, with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Mike Markkula, and others, to design, develop and market a line of personal computers first commercially successful, the Apple II series. In the early 1980s, Jobs was among those who first saw the commercial potential of the graphical user interface driven Xerox PARC mouse and then push the manufacture of Macintosh. After losing against the decision of the board of directors in 1984, Jobs resigned from Apple and founded NeXT, a computer platform development company engaged in the higher education and business markets. Apple's purchase of NeXT in 1996 brought Jobs back to the company he founded with his partner. He served as its CEO from 1997 until he died in 2011.



8. Stephen Wozniak

Stephen Wozniak was born in San Jose, California, USA on August 11, 1950. Wozniak is the founder of Apple Computer (with Steve Jobs). He is considered a pioneer of the computer entry into a private home life. Although it contributes only in the form of a collection of ideas that inadvertently telling along with the readiness of the technology for the manufacture of bulk computer, intelligence and boundless creativity made him the right person to be recognized as the initiator of the personal computer revolution. Wozniak created the Apple II personal computer last actually designed by one person alone. And in January 2007, he launched his book iWoz (ISBN 0393061444), which contains life and career.


9. Bill Atkinson

Still associated with Apple, for you Apple fans will surely be a pity if they do not know the character of this one. He was Bill Atkinson, a genius programmer behind QuickDraw, MacPaint and HyperCard. Bill Atkinson is also a member of the Macintosh team at Apple Computer. As one of the architects of the software on the Macintosh, a Bill was also a pioneer in digital printing techniques and color expert in Management of Bill has developed ICC profiles for Imaging Inc Calypso.





10. Bill Gates


William Henry Gates III, better known by the name of Bill Gates was born on October 28, 1955, in Seattle, Washington. Bill Gates is the second child of three brothers. His father William Henry Gates was a corporate lawyer who had many relations in the city. While his mother Mary Maxwell an employee of First Interstate Bank, Pacific Northwest Bell, and members of the National United Way.

He quickly mastered BASIC, a computer programming language, and along with his self-taught hacker in Lakeside, he spent hours writing a program, play a game, and generally learn a lot about computers. "He was an eccentric," as one of his teachers gave Gates surname. Bill Gates taking lectures at Harvard University in Cambridge starting in 1975. There he met Paul Allen during school together. Together with Paul Allen, Bill Gates continues to develop his talents in the field of computer programming. However, Bill Gates ruled out (drop out) to donate his time to Microsoft.

Through his efforts, the company he founded called Microsoft Corporation Bill Gates became successful and became a millionaire soar. In 1990 Bill Gates successfully released an operating system that is very successful in the world market.