Comments on: 10 Famous Geeks Who Changed The World (Not Who You Think)

By: Neutron

Neutron — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 18:47:11 +0000

I guess it is true, They truly changed the world. Jobs became a hero after death but the Real hero Dennis Ritchie was not even in the Newspaper of my country.

Respect for him.

By: Prasil Koirala

Prasil Koirala — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 04:00:44 +0000

We all know about him. Was he a Geek :P at the time when computer was just a concept? He was more like a computer hardware pro. I don’t remember the evidence that shows that he has coded anything

By: Theo Reisinger

Theo Reisinger — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 01:08:47 +0000

It’s a bit sad that these names are not more known, even though we increasingly use technology that couldn’t work without their contributions

By: Eze Uba

Eze Uba — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 09:07:31 +0000

No kidding… He is ‘The Architect’… That means we are all sleeping our lives away while machines run the world… which is not so far from the apparent reality, seen from a virtual standpoint… I’m losing it… someone free me from my cocoon…

By: Shawn Ashree Baba

Shawn Ashree Baba — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 01:55:52 +0000

Beautiful minds. Geeks always revolutionizing the world.

By: Vladimir Filipov

Vladimir Filipov — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 13:31:13 +0000

Where is the father of the computer – John Vincent Atanasoff?
He created the furst computer in 1941 – the Atanasoff-Berry Computer
Check Wikipedia for John Vincent Atanasoff and ABC computer.

By: Bengt-Arne Vedin

Bengt-Arne Vedin — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 12:35:39 +0000

You missed out a titan: Doug Engelbart

By: Mick Murry

Mick Murry — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 00:08:02 +0000

Richard M. Stallman!

1. He created emacs. (My favorite editor! WOOT!)

2. He created the operating system popularly referred to as “Linux” (even though that’s actually the name of the kernel).

3. He created the GNU General Public License and started the Free Software Movement.

By: Richard

Richard — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 08:03:53 +0000

To be fair Babbage only invented a mechanical calculator, he also never completed it. The London Science Museum built a “difference engine” in 1991 and it works. But it is not programmable in our modern sense and is not a compter. This is in a similar vein to the folks who think Michealangelo “invented the helicopter” because he had a sketch of a man beneath a large propeller.
The folks in this list invented from a plain sheet of paper and MADE the thing WORK reliably. That’s whey Saikat included them. Cheers

By: Saikat Basu

Saikat Basu — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 03:57:22 +0000

Thanks for the mention. He is another World War 2 hero.

By: Saikat Basu

Saikat Basu — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 03:56:25 +0000

Ten is sure a tough limit and if I say, an impossible one. I wanted this article to be concise enough to read in one go, and interesting enough by using interesting facts from their lives. For every name on this list, I can introduce five more. Just goes to show, there are so many ‘hidden’ heroes who never quite got their share of spotlight outside their own domains.

By: Cherie D

Cherie D — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 01:35:38 +0000

How about Larry Wall (perl and patch), John McCarthy (coined the terms AI and login), Kernighan and Knuth, Wozniak (too famous?), Vernor Vinge (for writing True Names), Stuart Cheshire for writing Bolo, the first MMO. 10 is a tough limit to set yourself!

By: Richard

Richard — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 18:04:38 +0000

I like this. Stumbled on your page by accident but it is good to see the real heroes of our IT industry recognised rather than the nonsense the advertisers feed us.

I also support Grace Hopper in the list. Maybe 10 was too few. But how about Tommy Flowers, the man who actually made the first valve computer that made Alan Turing’s thoughts a reality. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Flowers

Xerox PARC should be in with a shot too.

Regards

By: samantha

samantha — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 02:51:38 +0000

Really cool article! I didn’t know about any of these people. Thanks for the info. :)

By: DigitalMartians

DigitalMartians — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 16:16:51 +0000

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