1. Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide WebBriton Tim Berners-Lee did not invent the Internet itself. When he offered his innovations, the network already existed for several decades. But Tim gave her the kind to which we are so accustomed to. He invented the URI, URL, HTTP, HTML. In fact, Internet-based hyperlinks to documents and links between sites - it's all the handiwork of Berners-Lee. Its first operating time, Tim introduced in 1989, when he worked for a Swiss company CERN. And from 1991 to 1993 they were released the first specification URI, HTTP and HTML.
This extraordinary genius today is the author of the concept of the semantic web. In Britain, it was granted the title of knight. Berners-Lee cannot be called an entrepreneur (although he was not poor people), but its discovery was so important for society that we simply could not include the creator of the World Wide Web in the list.
2. Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce, the inventors of computer chiplby and Noyce are the creators of computer chip. For his invention, made by Jack Kilby in 1958 (then he worked for the company Texas Instruments) engineer won the Nobel Prize in 2000. The fate of Robert Noyce interesting, because he eventually founded two prominent companies - Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel. In essence, the creation of these two men changed our world, giving humanity an era of personal computers. Without their invention about any universal computerization and speech could not be.
3. Bob Frankston and Dan Bricklin, inventor of spreadsheets
Graduates of MIT Bob Frankston and Dan Bricklin are the creators of the once well-known program VisiCalc, in fact, is the first application for working with spreadsheets. Yes, the brainchild of Frankston can not compete with such giants as Microsoft. But, first, their program for some time been the standard in the industry, and brought a lot of money to the creators. And secondly, it marked the beginning of a whole class of programs that we know today as spreadsheets.
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