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John Lilly is the CEO of the Mozilla Corporation. The Mozilla Corporation is responsible for the open source web browser Firefox along with other open source software. Lilly attended Stanford University where he majored in computer science.
image source: IsiaT/FlickrJosh James was the CEO of Omniture before selling it to Adobe for $1.8 billion. Omniture is a web analytics company.
from left: Ken Thompson and Dennis RitchieKen Thompson was born on February 4, 1943 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is known for his invention of the UNIX operating system at AT&T's Bell Labs with Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna. Thompson is also known for developing the B programming language, which was a precursor to the C programming language that he invented with Dennis Ritchie. Thompson and Ritchie received the 1998 National Medal of Technology for their invention of the UNIX operating system and the C programming language.
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Kevin Mitnick was born on August 16, 1963 in Los Angeles, California. He is perhaps most known for being the most wanted criminal computer hacker in American history, albeit, controversially so. Mitnick is now a computer security consultant and author.
image source: Joi/Flickr Kevin Rose was born on February 21, 1977 in California. He attended University of Las Vegas Nevada before dropping out and starting the social-bookmarking site Digg.com. He appears regularly on the video podcast Diggnation with co-host Alex Albrecht on Revision3.com, another start-up for the distribution of tech-centric video podcasts.
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