Aaron Swartz Developer involved with several projects including RSS, Markdown, and Reddit. November 8, 1986 - January 11, 2013. Wikipedia
Adam Osborne Founder of Osborne Computer Corporation (OCC). March 6, 1939 - March 18, 2003. Wikipedia
Alan Cooper The father of Visual Basic. Born June 3, 1952. Wikipedia
Alan Turing June 23, 1912 - June 7, 1954 Wikipedia
Alexander Graham Bell Inventor of the first practical telephone. March 3, 1847 - August 2, 1922. Wikipedia The Guardian
Andrew Grove (Andy Grove) Former CEO of Intel. September 2, 1936 - March 21, 2016 Wikipedia
Antonio Meucci Inventor of the telephone. April 13 1808 - October 18 1889 Wikipedia
Arthur Scherbius Inventor of the Enigma machine. October 30, 1878 - May 13, 1929. Wikipedia
Bernard D.H. Tellegen Inventor of the pentode & the gyrator. June 24, 1900 - August 30, 1990. Wikipedia
Bill Gates Co-founder of Microsoft along with Paul Allen. Wikipedia
Blaise de Vigenère Vigenère cipher. April 5, 1523 - February 19, 1596 Wikipedia
Blaise Pascal French mathematician. Jun 19, 1623 - August 19, 1662. Wikipedia
Brian Fox Author of the Bash shell. Wikipedia
Bruce Schneier American cryptographer, computer security professional, privacy specialist and writer. Born January 15, 1963. Website Wikipedia
Carol Shaw Wikipedia
Charles Babbage An English polymath. A mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer, Babbage originated the concept of a digital programmable computer. December 26, 1791 – October 18, 1871. Wikipedia Computer History Museum
Chris Allegretta Creator of the text editor nano. Wikipedia
Chuck Robbins CEO of Cisco. Wikipedia
Dennis Ritchie Developed the C programming language with help from Ken Thompson in 1973. Wikipedia
Gabriel Cramer Swiss mathematician known for Cramer's rule. July 31, 1704 - January 4, 1752. Wikipedia
Georg Ohm German physicist. The Ohm is named after him. Wikipedia
Gil Amelio Named CEO of Apple Computer February 2, 1996 Wikipedia This Day in Tech History
Gilbert Vernam Co-invented the one-time pad cipher. Wikipedia
Giovan Battista Bellaso Italian cryptologist. Born in 1505. Wikipedia
Gordon Moore Known for Moore's law. Founded NM Electronics with Robert Noyce in 1968 which later became Intel Corporation. Born January 3, 1929 Wikipedia
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Isaac Asimov American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. He was known for his works of science fiction and popular science. Asimov was a prolific writer. January 2, 1920 - April 6, 1992. Wikipedia
Jay Wright Forrester Developed what would become Random Access Memory Born July 14, 1918. Wikipedia
Jeffrey Snover Inventor of PowerShell.
John Backus Directed the team that invented Fortran. Invented Backus-Naur form (BNF). December 3, 1924 - March 17, 2007 Wikipedia
John Chambers Executive Chairman of Cisco Systems. Wikipedia
John Gruber Writer for Daring Fireball and developer of Markdown. Wikipedia Website
John Pierpont Morgan (J. P. Morgan) April 17, 1837 - March 31, 1913 Wikipedia
John Sculley Third CEO of Apple from 1983-1993. Born April 6, 1939. Wikipedia Cult of Mac
John Walson Recognized as the founder of the cable television industry. Invented cable TV in the spring of 1948. Wikipedia
Ken Thompson Developed the UNIX operating system in 1969. Also developed the B programming language.
Kevin Mitnick First hacker busted for hacking. Wikipedia
Larry Wall Developer of Perl. Wikipedia
Linus Torvalds Developer of Linux. Wikipedia
Lisa Su CEO of AMD. Wikipedia
Mark Surman Executive director of the Mozilla Foundation. Website Wikipedia
Mathew Brady Opened his own photogrophy studio in New York in 1844. May 18, 1822 - January 15, 1896 Wikipedia
Michael Dell Founder and CEO of Dell. Born February 23, 1965. Website Wikipedia
Michael Widenius Co-founder of MySQL Wikipedia
Nikola Tesla July 10, 1856 - January 7, 1943. Wikipedia
Paul Allen Co-founder of Microsoft along with Bill Gates. Wikipedia
Phil Spencer Head of Microsoft's Xbox division. Took the roll March 31, 2014. Wikipedia Time
Phil Zimmermann Created of PGP. Website
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Radia Perlman STP is based on an algorithm she invented. Born January 1, 1951. Wikipedia
Raja Koduri Senior Vice President and Chief Architect, Radeon Technologies Group. AMD Executive Biography
Ralph Merkle Wikipedia
Rich Skrenta Wrote the Elk Cloner virus. Wikipedia
Richard Stallman Wikipedia
Robert Kahn One of the fathers of the internet. Wikipedia
Robert Metacalf Founded 3COM. Wikipedia
Robert Noyce Co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel Corporation in 1968. December 12, 1927 - June 3, 1990 Wikipedia
Ronald Wayne Co-founded Apple Computer with Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs. Born May 17, 1934. Wikipedia
Sergey Brin Co-founded Google with Larry Page. Born August 21, 1973. Website Wikipedia
Seymour Cray The father of supercomputing. September 28, 1925 - October 5, 1996 Wikipedia
Steve Jobs Co-founder of Apple with Steve Wozniak. February 24, 1955 - October 5, 2011 Wikipedia
Steve Wozniak Co-founder of Apple with Steve Jobs. Wikipedia
Taylor Otwell Developer of Laraval.
Thomas Jefferson Invented an encryption system believed to have been used between 1790-1793.
Tim Berners-Lee Inventor of the World Wide Web. Born June 8, 1955. Wikipedia
Vinton Cerf One of the fathers of the internet. Wikipedia