Personal 06

Identify this electrical engineer who co-founded Sun Microsystems?

Answer added on 4-9-2011: Andy Bechtolsheim

Answer:
Andreas (Andy) von Bechtolsheim (born September 30, 1955) is an electrical engineer who co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 and was its chief hardware designer.
He later became an investor, writing the first major check to fund Google, and starting several computer networking companies.

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Personal 05

Identify this person who was a  mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and computer scientist.

Answer added on 2-9-2011: Alan Turing

Answer: Alan Mathison Turing,(June 1912 – 7 June 1954), was an English mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and computer scientist. He was highly influential in the development of computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of "algorithm" and "computation" with the Turing machine, which played a significant role in the creation of the modern computer.


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Personal 04

Identify this American Computer Scientist?

Answer added on 23-4-2011:  Alan Kay

Hint: born on may 17, 1940

Answer:
Alan Curtis Kay is an American computer scientist, known for his early pioneering work in Object Oriented Programming and windowing graphical user interface(GUI) and for coining the phrase "The best way to predict future is to invent it".


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Personal 03

Identify this person?

Answer added on 29/12/2010: Alan Shugart

Hint: His careen defined the modern computer disk drive industry.

Answer: Alan Field Shugart (September 27, 1930 – December 12, 2006) was an engineer, entrepreneur and business executive whose career defined the modern computer disk drive industry.
He was the founder of Shugart Associates in 1973, later acquired by Xerox. Then he and Finis Conner started Shugart Technology in 1979, which soon changed its name to Seagate Technology.

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Personal 02

Identify the person?

Answer added on 8/12/2010: Steve Ballmer

Hint:He belongs to Microsoft
Answer: Steven Anthony "Steve" Ballmer (born March 24, 1956) has been the chief executive officer of Microsoft Corporation since January 2000. As of 2010, he is one of the richest people in the world with a personal wealth estimated at US$13.1 billion.
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Personal 01

Identify the person

Answer added on 19/11/2010: Larry Ellison

Hint: software giant

Answer:
Lawrence Joseph "Larry" Ellison  is an American business magnate, co-founder and chief executive officer of Oracle Corporation, a major enterprise software company. As of 2010 he is the sixth richest person in the world, with a personal wealth of $27 billion.

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