I have an essay in my literature class due tomorrow. It's supposed to be about a modern hero and what defines his(or her) heroic characteristics. I was thinking of doing someone in the computer world but I don't know who. Any Ideas?
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I have an essay in my literature class due tomorrow. It's supposed to be about a modern hero and what defines his(or her) heroic characteristics. I was thinking of doing someone in the computer world but I don't know who. Any Ideas?
Linus Torvalds
Carolyn Meinel
JP
or anyone against above mentioned if you are in that category. I happen to like the work done by all of the above, but some people don't. It all boils down to "Who do you admire?"
Good luck
Happy Hacking
how about jobs and wozniak, mcnealy (i would also mention gates but gates is evil), the lab people who developed ENIAC, and charles babbage?
That guy that threw a pie in the face of Bill Gates
http://www.zpub.com/un/bill/billpie.jpg
edit: and a slightly more serious answer - John Carmack, where would we be without Doom and Quake?
Ken Thompson
Brian Kernighan
Dennis Ritchie
Andrew Tanenbaum (wrote Minix)
Larry Wall
Just a few more names to mention.
Happy Hacking
Thanks guys. I think I'm gonna use Linus.
Phil Zimmerman maybe?
Linus Torvalds would be an excellent choice considering the amount of info available on the guy.
I'd take Linus.. But then again, who am I?
and ther is this guy, I don't remember his name... helped on (wrote) MSDOS 1.0 and got :umph: by Bill Gates.....
Anyone know who that was???
Can't remember..