Sunday
Dec202009

Sir Tim Berners-Lee | WWW

image credit: Knight Foundation/FlickrSir Tim Berners-Lee was born on June 8, 1955 in London, England. Lee is most known for inventing the World Wide Web. He is the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (WC3).

 

 

 

Monday
Jul132009

Stephen Wolfram | Wolfram Alpha

image credit: Ernie Branson/Wikimedia CommonsStephen Wolfram was born on August 29, 1959 in London, England. Wolfram received a Ph. D. in particle physics from the California Institute of Technology. He is founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, creator of Mathematica, A New Kind of Science, and Wolfram Alpha a computational data engine that was launched May 16, 2009.

 

 

 

Thursday
Jan282010

Steve Chen | YouTube

image credit: Rico Shen/Wikimedia CommonsSteve Chen was born in August 1978 in Taipei, Taiwan. Chen co-founded YouTube with Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim in 2005. Chen and Hurley sold YouTube to Google in 2006. He is currently the Chief Technology Officer at YouTube.

 

 

Tuesday
Jun162009

Steve Huffman | Reddit

image credit: Mathieu Ramage/FlickrSteve Huffman is a graduate of University of Virginia and along with Alex Ohanian, also a University of Virginia grad, he founded Reddit. Reddit is a social news website that allows users to post links to web content.

 

 

 

 

Wednesday
Nov042009

Steve Jobs | Apple

image credit: Aido2002/Wikimedia CommonsSteve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955 in San Francisco, California. Jobs co-founded Apple Computer with Steve Wozniak. He was also the CEO of Pixar Animation Studios and sits on the Board of Directors of the Walt Disney Company. Jobs is widely considered the "soul" of Apple due to his ability to stear Apple in the right direction, from revolutionary product designs, software design, and revolutionizing entire industries. In November 2009 Fortune magazine named him "CEO of the decade", a title perhaps, that no one would refute.