Tim Berners-Lee

Tim Berners-Lee designed the World Wide Web and loosed it on the world. More than anyone else, he has fought to keep it open, nonproprietary and free. "If this were a traditional science, Berners-Lee would win a Nobel Prize," Eric Schmidt, CEO of Novell, once told the New York Times. "What he's done is that significant."

Bill Gates

In December of 1974 Bill Gates and Paul Allen knew that the home computer market was about to explode and that someone would need to make software for the new machines. They wrote a version of BASIC computer language that worked on the new Altair computer. The makers of the Altair, arranged a deal with Gates and Allen to buy the rights to their BASIC. The software market had been born. Within a year, Bill Gates had dropped out of out of Harvard and Microsoft was formed.

Marc Andreesen

Marc Andreessen established Netscape's browser (called Netscape Navigator) as the Internet standard, and then sold other kinds of network software for Internet and corporate use. The results of his thinking will very possibly continue to be found on our desktops, and on the hubs of the computer networks that carry the lifeblood of tomorrow's global society.

Dr. Douglas Engelbart

A true computer visionary, Dr. Engelbart is widely credited with helping develop the computer mouse. The invention of the mouse contributed to several other computer scientists: Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak at Apple and Bill Gates at Microsoft.

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