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Top Ten Software Innovators?

Posted by Cliff on from the new-naming-conventions dept.

Rsriram asks: "At our company we have named some of the conference rooms with names of software innovators. The names include Ken Thompson, Donald Knuth, Ada Lovelace, Dennis Ritchie. We need to name 10 more rooms and I was wondering who Slashdot readers would think are the top ten software innovators. Not computer hardware but software. I was thinking Von Neumann, and Linus Torvalds would find a mention, What about Watts Humphrey?"

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  1. Tim Berners-Lee by an_mo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    He wrote the first web browser and server

  2. Bill Atkinson by Anonymous+Codger · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Wrote much of the original Mac UI, wrote the revolutionary Quickdraw, wrote the first version of MacPaint, and invented HyperCard. If anyone belongs on this list, he does.

    Here's a brief profile on Apple.com: http://www.apple.com/creative/stories/atkinson/

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