2. Bill Gates
Founder of Microsoft
Founder of Microsoft
Co-founded Microsoft in 1975 with
boyhood friend Paul Allen
Wrote Microsoft's first program,
BASIC for the MITS Altair, in 1975
Led Microsoft to become one of the
world's largest corporations, helping
the software industry rival
established industries in economic
influence and power
Donated billions of dollars to
charities through the work of the Bill
and Melinda Gates Foundation.
3. They might not have invented
the router, as is often believed,
but the two Stanford University
employees built one heck of a
company to exploit it.
The two recognized the
multiprotocol router's
commercial potential and
founded Cisco in late 1984;
when they left in 1990 (Lerner
was forced out,
and Bosack left of his own
volition immediately
thereafter), the company had
grown from an unknown, four-
employee start-up to a 250-
person, publicly traded industry
trend-setter with a market cap
Sandy Lerner of $224 million.
Today Cisco remains the router
leader, as well as a dominant
player in the access, switch,
security, storage, VoIP and
wireless markets.
4. Michael Dell
Founder of DELL
Founder of DELL COMPUTER
Developed the concept of selling
personal computers via mail-
order, revolutionized the way
computers are sold while also
helping to drive the price of PCs
down. His idea has flourished
into one of the top suppliers of
quality computer equipment in
the world.
Children: Zachary Dell, Juliette
Dell, Alexa Dell, Kira Dell
5. Larry Ellison
Founder Of Oracle
Larry Ellison is far from a run-of-the-mill
businessman. Oracle is the world's
leading supplier of software for
information management and the
world's second largest independent
software company, boasting revenues of
more than $9.7 billion. The huge success
of the company makes Ellison one of the
richest people in America. His drive,
character and success motivated author
Mike Wilson to write Ellison's biography
entitled The Difference Between God and
Larry Ellison. If you would like to uncover
the details of Ellison's life, nasty to nice,
the book is brutally straightforward
regarding the man commonly referred to
as the Other Software Billionaire.
6. Linus Torvalds
Creator Of LINUX
Creator of LINUX
After programming games on his first
computer, a Commodore VIC 20, Torvalds
turned his interests to creating an
alternative to the standard operating
systems available commercially. Using an
open-source model (allowing a loose-knit
group of other interested programmers
to contribute source code and changes to
the software) and attaching his favorite
animal, the penguin, as the products
icon, he created LINUX.
7. Steve Jobs
Founder Of Apple
Co-founder and CEO of
Apple Computer
Company
CEO of Pixar, the
Academy-Award-
winning animation
studios which he co-
founded in 1986.
9. Mark Zukerberg
Founder Of Facebook
Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is an American
computer programmer and Internet
entrepreneur. He is best known as one of
five co-founders of the social networking
site Facebook. Zuckerberg is the chairman
and chief executive of Facebook.
•Born: May 14, 1984 (age 28), White Plains
•Spouse: Priscilla Chan (m. 2012)
•Net worth: US$ 12.1 billion (2012)
•Parents: Edward Zuckerberg, Karen
Zuckerberg
•Siblings: Randi Zuckerberg, Arielle
Zuckerberg, Donna Zuckerberg
•Education: Phillips Exeter Academy
(2000–2002), Ardsley High School (1998–
2000), Harvard University, Mercy College
10. Sabeer Bhatia
Founder of Hotmail
Sabeer Bhatia is an Indian American
entrepreneur who co-founded the
Hotmail email service and Jaxtr.
Wikipedia
•Born: December 30, 1968 (age 43),
Chandigarh
•Spouse: Tania Bhatia
•Education: California Institute of
Technology, Stanford University, Birla
Institute of Technology and Scienc
11. Sir Timothy John
Founder of WWW( WORLD WIDE WEB)
Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, OM,
KBE, FRS, FREng, FRSA, also known as
"TimBL", is an English computer scientist,
MIT professor and the inventor of the
World Wide Web.
•Born: June 8, 1955 (age 57), London
•Education: The Queen's College, Oxford,
University of Oxford
•Books: Weaving the Web: The Original
Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World
Wide Web by its Inventor
•Awards: President's Medal, MacArthur
Fellowship, Charles Stark Draper Prize,
Mountbatten Medal, Marconi Prize
•Parents: Conway Berners-Lee, Mary Lee
Woodse
12. Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin
Founder Of Google
Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin is a Soviet-born
American computer scientist and Internet
entrepreneur who, with Larry Page, co-
founded Google, one of the most profitable
Internet companies. As of 2012, his
personal wealth is estimated to be $18.7
billion.
Born: August 21, 1973 (age 39), Moscow
Net worth: US$ 18.7 billion (2012)
Spouse: Anne Wojcicki (m. 2007)
Children: Benji Wojin
Education: Stanford University (1995),
University of Maryland, College Park
(1993), Instituto de Empresa Business
School
Parents: Michael Brin, Eugenia Brin
13. Kevin Mitnick
World Best Hacker
Mitnick grew up in Los Angeles and
attended Monroe High School. He was
enrolled at Los Angeles Pierce College and
USC.[2] He worked as a receptionist for
Stephen S. Wise Temple for a while.
•Born August 6, 1963 (age 49)
Los Angeles
•Occupation : Computer Consultant
14. Computer hacking
At age 12, Mitnick used social engineering to bypass the punchcard system used in the
Los Angeles bus system. After a friendly bus driver told him where he could buy his own
ticket punch, he could ride any bus in the greater LA area using unused transfer slips he
found in the trash. Social engineering became his primary method of obtaining
information, including user names and passwords and modem phone numbers.
Mitnick first gained unauthorized access to a computer network in 1979, at 16, when a
friend gave him the phone number for the Ark, the computer system Digital Equipment
Corporation (DEC) used for developing their RSTS/E operating system software. He
broke into DEC's computer network and copied their software, a crime he was charged
with and convicted of in 1988. He was sentenced to 12 months in prison followed by
three years of supervised release. Near the end of his supervised release, Mitnick
hacked into Pacific Bell voice mail computers. After a warrant was issued for his arrest,
Mitnick fled, becoming a fugitive for two and a half years.
According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Mitnick gained unauthorized access to
dozens of computer networks while he was a fugitive. He used cloned cellular phones to
hide his location and, among other things, copied valuable proprietary software from
some of the country's largest cellular telephone and computer companies. Mitnick also
intercepted and stole computer passwords, altered computer networks, and broke into
and read private e-mail. Mitnick was apprehended on February 15, 1995 in Raleigh,
North Carolina.[4] He was found with cloned cellular phones, more than 100 clone
cellular phone codes, and multiple pieces of false identification.
15. Confirmed criminal acts
• Using the Los Angeles bus transfer system to get free rides
• Evading the FBI
• Hacking into DEC system(s) to view VMS source code (DEC reportedly spent
$160,000 in cleanup costs)
• Gaining full administrator privileges to an IBM minicomputer at the Computer
Learning Center in Los Angeles in order to win a bet
• Hacking Motorola, NEC, Nokia, Sun Microsystems and Fujitsu Siemens systems
Alleged criminal acts
• Stole computer manuals from a Pacific Bell telephone switching center in Los Angeles
• Read the e-mail of computer security officials at MCI Communications and Digital
• Wiretapped the California DMV
• Made free cell phone calls
• Hacked Santa Cruz Operation, Pacific Bell, FBI, Pentagon, Novell, California
Department of Motor Vehicles, University of Southern California and Los Angeles Unified
School District systems.
• Wiretapped NSA agents, according to John Markoff.[8] This was originally denied by
Kevin Mitnick but later mentioned by Mitnick while listing his crimes as a juvenile in an
interview with Stephen Colbert on an August 18, 2011 episode of The Colbert Report.
16. Gordon Moore & Robert Noyce
Founders of Intel
Type Public
Founded Mountain View, California, U.S.(July 18, 1968)
Founder(s) Gordon Moore, Robert Noyce
Headquarters Santa Clara, California, U.S.[2]
Area served Worldwide
Key people Andy Bryant (Chairman)
Paul Otellini(President and CEO)
Products Bluetooth chipsets, flash memory,
microprocessors, motherboard chipsets, network interface cards
Revenue increase US$ 54.0 billion (2011)
Operating income increase US$ 17.5 billion (2011)
Net income increase US$ 12.9 billion (2011)
Total assets increase US$ 71.12 billion (2011)
Total equity increase US$ 45.91 billion (2011)
Employees :100,100 (2011)[3]
Website : Intel.com