I.T. Personalities

Larry Sanger

Lawrence Mark  "Larry" Sanger (born July 16, 1968) is an American philosopher, co-founder of Wikipedia, and the founder of Citizendium.He grew up in Anchorage, Alaska. From an early age he has been interested in philosophy. Sanger received a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from Reed College in 1991 and a Doctor of Philosophy in philosophy from Ohio State University in 2000. Most of his philosophical work has focused one pistemology, the theory of knowledge.

Biz Stone

Christopher Isaac "Biz" Stone (born March 10, 1974) is a co-founder and Creative Director of Twitter, Inc and also helped to create and launch Xanga,Blogger and The Obvious Corporation founded in June 2011 with his long time collaborators Evan Williams and Jason Goldman to focus on building systems that help people work together to improve the world. Stone currently serves as Chief Creative Officer at Obvious.

Richard Branson

Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson (born 18 July 1950) is an English business magnate, best known for his Virgin Group of more than 400 companies.
His first successful business venture was a magazine called Student at age 16.
In 1970, he set up an audio record mail-order business. In 1972, he opened a chain of record stores, Virgin Records, later known as Virgin Megastores.
Branson is the 4th richest citizen of the United Kingdom and 254th richest person in the world, according to the Forbes 2011 list of billionaires, with an estimated net worth of US$4.2 billion.

Jack Dorsey

Jack Dorsey (born November 19, 1976) is an American software architect and businessperson widely known as the creator of Twitter and as the founder and CEO of Square, a mobile payments company. In 2008, he was named to the MIT Technology Review TR35 as one of the top 35 innovators in the world under the age of 35.

Evan Williams

Evan Williams (born March 31, 1972) is an American entrepreneur who has founded several Internet companies. Two of the internet's top ten websites have been created by Evan Williams' companies: Blogger, weblog-authoring software of Pyra Labs, and Twitter, where he was previously CEO.

Steve Ballmer

Steven Anthony "Steve" Ballmer (born March 24, 1956) is an American business magnate. He is the chief executive officer of Microsoft, having held that post since January 2000. As of 2011, his personal wealth is estimated at US$13.9 billion, ranking number 19 on the Forbes 400.
Steve Ballmer joined Microsoft on June 11, 1980,and became Microsoft's 30th employee, the first business manager hired by Gates.

Ronald Wayne

Ronald Gerald Wayne (born May 17, 1934) founded Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.) with Steve Wozniak and the late CEO Steve Jobs but

soon gave up his share of the new company for a total of $2,300. After Apple, Wayne resisted Jobs's attempts to recruit him back to Apple, remaining at Atari until 1978 when he joined Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and later a Salinas, Californiaelectronics company.He holds a dozen patents but never had enough capital to make money off any of 

them.

Jimmy Wales

Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales (born August 7, 1966) is an American Internet entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and promoter of the online non-profit encyclopedia Wikipedia and the Wikia company.
His role in creating Wikipedia, which has become the world’s largest encyclopedia, prompted Time magazine to name him in its 2006 list of the world’s most influential people.

Sergey Brin

Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin (born August 21, 1973) is a Russian-born American computer scientist and internet entrepreneur who, with Larry Page, co-founded Google, one of the largest internet companies. As of 2011, his personal wealth is estimated to be $16.7billion.
The Economist magazine referred to Brin as an "Enlightenment .

H. S. Bedi

Lt Col Hardeep Singh Bedi is an ex-army man, an Entrepreneur and the Chairman & Managing Director of Tulip Telecom Limited., a Telecom company based in India. After serving the Indian army for 22 years, Lt Col HS Bedi took voluntary retirement and joined Tulip Telecom, then Tulip Software Pvt Ltd, in 1994.

Today, Lt Col H S Bedi is a well-recognized business leader in the IT and telecom industry and has vast experience in this field.

Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984) is an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur. He is best known for co-creating the social networking site Facebook.

In 2010, Zuckerberg was named Time magazine's Person of the Year. As of 2011, his personal wealth was estimated to be $17.5 billion.

Sam Pitroda

Satyanarayan Gangaram Pitroda popularly known as Sam Pitroda (born 4 May 1942) is an inventor, entrepreneur and policymaker. Currently Advisor to the Prime Minister of India on Public Information Infrastructure & Innovations, he is also widely considered to have been responsible for India’s communications revolution.

He is also the founder & CEO of C-SAM, Inc..He has lived mainly in Chicago, Illinois since 1964 with his wife and two children.

Steve Wozniak

Stephen Gary "Woz" Wozniak (born August 11, 1950) is an American computer engineer and programmer who founded Apple Computer, Co. (now Apple Inc.) with Steve Jobs and Ronald Wayne. Wozniak single-handedly created the Apple I and Apple II computers in the mid-1970s, which contributed significantly to the microcomputer revolution of that era.
He is sometimes known as the "Other Steve" of Apple Computer.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Bjarne Stroustrup (born December 30, 1950 in Denmark) is a Danish computer scientist, most notable for the creation and the development of the widely used C++ programming language. He is currently Professor and holder of the College of Engineering Chair in Computer Science at Texas A&M University. Bjarne preferred text editor Sam.

He currently works at Texas A&M University, United States, as a Distinguished Professor where he holds the College of Engineering Endowed Chair in Computer Science.

Brewster Kahle

Brewster Kahle (born 1960) is a computer engineer, internet entrepreneur, activist, and digital librarian.
Kahle is the founder of the Internet Archive and the Open Content Alliance, a group of organizations committed to making a permanent, publicly accessible archive of digitized texts. Kahle is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and serves on the boards of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Public Knowledge, the European Archive, the Television Archive, and the Internet Archive. 

Kris Gopalakrishnan

Senapathy Gopalakrishnan, popularly known as Kris Gopalakrishnan is the President of Infosys Technologies a global consulting and IT services company based in India. He is also one of its seven founders. 

Kris Gopalakrishnan spent his school days in Govt.Model School,Thycaud,Trivandrum. Kris obtained M.Sc. (Physics) in 1977 and M. Tech. (Computer Science) in 1979, both from IIT, Madras. He started his career as a software engineer with Patni Computers, Mumbai in 1979.

Ankit Fadia

Ankit Fadia is an independent computer security consultant. He runs a program on computer security for corporates in alliance with Reliance Info.

Ankit went to Delhi Public School, R K Puram for school. He started a website called "HackingTruths". At 15, his book on Ethical Hacking made him the youngest author to be published by Macmillan India.

Fadia is currently undergoing a BS degree in Computer Science from Stanford University, as claimed in his official resume.

Alan Shugart

Alan Field Shugart (September 27, 1930 – December 12, 2006) was an American engineer, entrepreneur and business executive whose career defined the modern computer disk drive industry.

He was the founder of Shugart Associates in 1973, later acquired by Xerox. Then he and Finis Conner started Shugart Technology in 1979, which soon changed its name to Seagate Technology.

Shugart died on December 12, 2006 in Monterey, California.

Ajit Balakrishnan

Ajit Balakrishnan is the Founder, Chairman & CEO of Rediff.com . He is a graduate of IIM Calcutta where he also now serves as Chairman of the Board of Governors.

He is currently Chairman of the Govt of India, Ministry of IT Committee on Internet Governance and Proliferation and chaired a recent Committee appointed by India's Ministry of Human Resource Development on 'Research and Faculty Enhancement at the 7 IIMs'.

Vinod Khosla

Vinod Khosla born 28 January 1955) is an Indian-born American venture capitalist and an influential personality in Silicon Valley.

Khosla was one of the co-founders of Sun Microsystems, where he served as its first CEO and Chairman in the early 1980s. In 1986, he became a general partner of the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, where he remained through the early 2000s.

n 2004 Khosla formed his own firm, Khosla Ventures, which focused on venture investments in various technology sectors, most notably clean technology.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

Nagavara Ramarao Narayana Murthy , better known as N. R. Narayana Murthy, is an Indian industrialist and software engineer. He and six other engineers founded Infosys in 1981. Mr. Murthy served as CEO from 1981 to 2002. From 2002 to 2011, he served as Chairman. In 2011, he became Chairman Emeritus.

Alan Turing

Alan Mathison Turing (23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954), was an English mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist. He was highly influential in the development of computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of "algorithm" and "computation" with the Turing machine, which played a significant role in the creation of the modern computer.Turing is widely considered to be the father of computer science and artificial intelligence.

Steve Jobs

Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American inventor and businessman widely recognized as a charismatic pioneer of the personal computer era. He was co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc. Jobs was co-founder and previously served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios; he became a member of the board of directors of the Walt Disney Company in 2006, following the acquisition of Pixar by Disney.

 On October 5, 2011, around 3:00 p.m., Jobs died at his home in Palo Alto, California, aged 56, six weeks after resigning as CEO of Apple.

Bill Gates

William Henry "Bill" Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, investor, philanthropist, author, and former CEO and current chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen. He is consistently ranked among the world's wealthiest people and was the wealthiest overall from 1995 to 2009, excluding 2008, when he was ranked third.

Gates stepped down as chief executive officer of Microsoft in January 2000 but remained as chairman and created the position of chief software architect. 

He has also authored or co-authored several books.

Larry Ellison

Lawrence Joseph "Larry" Ellison (born August 17, 1944) is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Oracle Corporation, one of the world's leading enterprise software companies. As of 2011, he is the third wealthiest American citizen, with an estimated worth of $33 billion.

James Gosling

James A. Gosling, OC (born May 19, 1955 near Calgary, Alberta, Canada) is a computer scientist, best known as the father of the Java programming language.

In 1977, Gosling received a B.Sc in Computer Science from the University of Calgary. In 1983, he earned a Ph.D in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University, and his doctoral thesis was titled "The Algebraic Manipulation of Constraints".

He is known as the father of the Java programming language.