Different IT Inventors

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Different IT Inventors

By Yash A. KarankeB.C.A – 4th Semester

Charles Babbage

Father of : Computer

Year : 1832

Charles Babbage was an English Mathematician, best remembered for originating the concept of a programmable computer.

Charles Babbage

Denise Ritchie

Father of : C Programming.

Year : 1969 – 1973

Location : Bell Labs.

Dennis Ritchie

Bill Gates

Founder of : Microsoft Inc.

Year :1975

Location : Silicon Valley

Co-Founder : Paul Allen

Bill Gates

Steve Jobs

Founder of : Apple Inc.

Year : 1977

Co-Founder : Steve Wozniak

Location : Silicon Valley

Steve Jobs

Linus Torvalds

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Father of : OS Kernel

Developer of : Linux (First free GUI based OS)

Year : 5th October 1991

Headquarters : San Francisco, USA

Linus Torvalds

Sabeer Bhatia

Founder of : Hotmail.com

Hotmail.com is the worlds first webmail service.

Year : 1996

Microsoft later purchased it in 1997 and renamed Hotmail is MSN Hotmail.

Sabeer Bhatia

J.C.R Licklider

J.C.R Licklider who is responsible for the development of A.R.P.A.N.E.T in 1969, Cloud computing was his idea.

The idea of an “intergalactic computer network”. (Cloud Computing)

His vision was for everyone on the globe to be interconnected and accessing programs and data at any site, from anywhere.

Salesforce.com in 1999 was the first cloud computing website which offered Applications over the internet.

J.C.R Licklider

Sir Tim Berners-Lee

Father of : World Wide Web

Year : 1990

Invented : HTML (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol)

He is the director of WC3, World Wide Web Consotrium.

In 2004, TimBL was “knighted” by Queen Elizabeth for his pioneering work.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee

Larry Page and Sergy Brin

Founder of : Google Inc.

Year : September 4 1998

Location : Mountain View

Larry Page

Gabe Newell

Founder of : Valve

Year : August 26 1996

Headquarters : Bellevue , WA, USA

Gabe Newell

Thomas Anderson

Co-Founder of : MySpace (first social networking website)

Year : August 2003

Headquarters : Beverly Hills

Co-Founder : Chris DeWolfe

Thomas Anderson

Mark Zuckerberg

Founder of : Facebook Inc.

Year : February 4 2004

Location : Harvard University

Mark Zuckerberg

Alan Turing

Father of : Cryptography

Year :1939

Location :Bletchley Radio Manufacturing ( British Secret Services)

Alan Turing

Andy Rubin

Developer of : Android OS

Year : 2006

Location : Google HQ.

Co-Founder : Rich Miner and Nick Sears

Andy Rubin

Larry Tesler

Inventor of : Copy / Paste

Year : 1973-1980

Location : Xerox PARC

Larry Tesler

John McCarthy

Inventor of : AI (Artificial Intelligence)

Year : 1956 ~ 1959

Location : MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

John McCarthy

James Gosling

Father of : Java Programming Language

Year : 1995

Location : Sun Microsystems

James Gosling

Wikipedia

Google

Biography.com

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YouTube

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