HB Blog 18: Famous Personalities.

         We can't imagine life without these people and their successful journey of work. I personally idolize them.
Charles Babbage,(December 26, 1791 – October 18, 1871) - Father of the computer

He was an English polymath.He was a mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer, who is best remembered now for originating the concept of a programmable computer.He is considered as "father of the computer".

Alexander Graham Bell (March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922)  - Telephone Inventor

He was an eminent Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone.

Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee (born 8 June 1955) - World Wide Web Inventor

He also known as "TimBL", is an English computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web.

Lawrence Gordon Tesler (born April 24, 1945) - Copy and Paste Inventor

He also known as "Larry Tesler", is a computer scientist who works in the field of human–computer interaction.Copy and paste was first implemented in 1973-1976 by Tesler and Tim Mott, while they were working for Xerox Palo Alto Research Center.

Lawrence "Larry" Page (born March 26, 1973) - Google co-founder

He is an American business magnate and computer scientist who is the co-founder of Google, alongside Sergey Brin.
Page is the inventor of PageRank, the foundation of Google's search ranking algorithm.

Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin (born August 21, 1973)  - Google co-founder

He is an American computer scientist and internet entrepreneur who, together with Larry Page, co-founded Google.

William Henry "Bill" Gates,(born October 28, 1955) - Microsoft co-founder

He is an American business magnate, philanthropist, investor, computer programmer, and inventor.Gates is the former chief executive and chairman of Microsoft, the world’s largest personal-computer software company, which he co-founded with Paul Allen.

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984)  - Facebook co-founder

He is an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur. He is best known as one of five co-founders of the social networking website Facebook. 

Andrew E. "Andy" Rubin - Android Inc co-founder

He is the co-founder and former CEO of both Danger Inc. and Android Inc. He was formerly Senior Vice President of Mobile and Digital Content at Google until March 2013, where he oversaw development of Android, an open-source operating system for smart phones.Rubin has seventeen patents for his inventions.

Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) - Apple Inc co-founder

He was an American entrepreneur, marketer, and inventor, who was the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc.