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Good trivia time Q.
Vinton Cerf: Internet pioneer
Seymour Cray: Cray founder, building fastest supercomputers in late 70s-early 80s
Thomas Edison: Inventor, advocate for AC current standard
Andrew Grove: Intel founder
Grace Hopper: Admiral, early programmer, described early concepts of computing
Gary Kildall: author of Control Program for Microcomputers, founder of Digital Research
Hedy Lamarr: Movie actress also involved in... I forget... code breaking research?
Robert M Metcalfe: Inventor of Ethernet, 3com founder
Gordon E Moore: Intel guy, noted for Moore's Law
Dennis M Richie: C/Unix developer
Nikola Tesla: Inventor, coil builder, advocate for DC current standard
Linus Torvalds: Author/maintainer of Linux kernel, crisp open-source advocate
Alan M. Turing: Brit inventor, code breaker, described early A.I., tortured to suicide by own government
John L von Neumann: computing pioneer, described computing architectures still in use
Marc Andreesen: Netscape principal author, first to advocate use of images in HTTP
H Presper Eckert: co-developer of Eniac, possibly the first completely electronic computer
John W Mauchly: co-developer of Eniac
William B Shockley: Bell Labs inventor of the transistor, later widely denounced for views on social issues
William R Hewlett: Garage engineer and H/P co-founder
David Packard: Garage engineer and H/P co-founder
Steven Wozniak: Garage engineer and Apple co-founder
Steven P Jobs: Hanger-on with garage engineer, visionary in bringing computing to the masses
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