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2. Dennis Ritchie
Birth Date
Death Date
o
September 9, 1941
Died found dead October 12, 2011(aged 70)
Dennis MacAlistair
Ritchie was an
American computer scientist
who "helped shape the digital
era.“
o
He created the C
programming language

3. Bjarne Stroustrup
Born December 30, 1950
o Bjarne
a
Stroustrup
is
computer scientist, most
notable for the creation and
the development of the widely
used
C++
language.
programming

4. James Arthur Gosling
Born May 19, 1955
o James
a
A.
Gosling,
computer
is
scientist,
best known as the father
of the Java programming
language.

5. Rasmus Lerdorf
Rasmus Lerdorf (born 22 November 1968)
PHP was originally created by Rasmus
Lerdorf in 1995
While PHP originally stood for "Personal
Home Page", it is now said to stand for
"PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor

6. Anders Hejlsberg
Born December 1960

Anders Hejlsberg (born December
1960) is a prominent software
engineer who co-designed several popular
and commercially successful programming
languages and development tools.

Currently works for Microsoft as the lead
architect of C#

7. Tim Berners Lee
8 June 1955 (age 56)

Sir Timothy John "Tim" BernersLee,
also known as "TimBL", is a
British computer scientist,

The inventor of the World Wide Web.

Berners-Lee
the
is
World
the
director
Wide
of
Web
Consortium (W3C), which oversees the
Web's continued development

8. Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin
Born August 21, 1973
Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin is a Russianborn American computer scientist
and internet entrepreneur who,
with Larry Page, co-founded Google,
one of the largest internet
companies.As of 2011, his personal
wealth is estimated to be $16.7 billion.

9. Larry Page
Born March 26, 1973
Lawrence "Larry" Page is an
American computer
scientist and internet
entrepreneur who, with Sergey Brin, is
best known as the co-founder of Google

10. Jerry Yang (entrepreneur)
November 6, 1968 (age 43)
Jerry
Yang
is
an
Internet Entrepreneur and the cofounder, former CEO, and "Chief Yahoo"
of Yahoo! Inc.

11. David Filo
April 20, 1966 (age 45)
David Filo (born April 20, 1966) is
an American businessman and the cofounder of Yahoo! with Jerry Yang.

12. Mark Zuckerberg
May 14, 1984 (age 27)
Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14,
1984)
is
an
American
computer
programmer and Internet entrepreneur.
He is best known for co-creating
the social networking site Facebook, of
which
he
is
chief
executive and president. It was cofounded as a private company in 2004
by Zuckerberg