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Re: Giants of IT. The giants on whose shoulders we stand. One each day

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Post by antonpirker » Wed, Oct 21, 2015, 11:26 AM UTC

fdemmer wrote: post #9

antonpirker wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi! It's not a best of or top 100 list or something, it is in random order. But Tim Berners Lee is of course on my list, so he will show up in the future.

i first thought it is by birth/or death date. some relation to "now" might make this more interesting, like the astronomy picture of the day. if there are two on the same day they could simply be shifted.

on the start page (http://www.giantsofit.org/) you will be redirected to the person of today. i just posted here the first person because the person of today (jack kilby) has no image.

or do you mean more something like to have the person show on on her/his birthday or day of death?

Re: Giants of IT. The giants on whose shoulders we stand. One each day

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Post by antonpirker » Wed, Oct 21, 2015, 11:29 AM UTC

jfaucett wrote: post #10

Im kind of unsure as to how to interpret this, but there appears to be no particular ordering just an influential cs person posted for each day of the month. Theres definitely pleanty of influencers missing from the current set, McCarthy, Hoare, Dijkstra, to name few. If this were my list, I wouldnt have Lovelace or Gates on it, but most of the others seem warrented enough (in my opinion of course) :)

hi. indeed it is just a list of persons in no particular ordering.

The persons you name are of course on the list. Lovelace already visible the others will appear in the future. So every day one person is added.

If you have other persons you want to see on the list you can submit person with a link in the footer of the page.

Re: Giants of IT. The giants on whose shoulders we stand. One each day

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Post by jfaucett » Wed, Oct 21, 2015, 11:36 AM UTC

antonpirker wrote: post #12

jfaucett wrote: post #10

Im kind of unsure as to how to interpret this, but there appears to be no particular ordering just an influential cs person posted for each day of the month. Theres definitely pleanty of influencers missing from the current set, McCarthy, Hoare, Dijkstra, to name few. If this were my list, I wouldnt have Lovelace or Gates on it, but most of the others seem warrented enough (in my opinion of course) :)

hi. indeed it is just a list of persons in no particular ordering. The persons you name are of course on the list. Lovelace already visible the others will appear in the future. So every day one person is added. If you have other persons you want to see on the list you can submit person with a link in the footer of the page.

gotcha. nice job btw :)

Re: Giants of IT. The giants on whose shoulders we stand. One each day

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Post by simula67 » Wed, Oct 21, 2015, 11:37 AM UTC

Good page! But Bill Gates did not develop BASIC or DOS.

Re: Giants of IT. The giants on whose shoulders we stand. One each day

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Post by antonpirker » Wed, Oct 21, 2015, 11:39 AM UTC

simula67 wrote: post #14

Good page! But Bill Gates did not develop BASIC or DOS.

I know :) It's a trap! (And the real authors are in the list too, but will show up later this year)

Re: Giants of IT. The giants on whose shoulders we stand. One each day

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Post by jfaucett » Wed, Oct 21, 2015, 11:45 AM UTC

simula67 wrote: post #14

Good page! But Bill Gates did not develop BASIC or DOS.

True, DOS was purchased as Q-DOS from Seattle Computer Products, and was adapted to become MS-DOS which was also a copy of CP/M, (http://www.bernd-leitenberger.de/qdos.shtml).

As far as BASIC goes it was designed in 64 at Dartmought College (http://www.jake.dk/programmering/qbasic/dk/historien.html). I think Gates did develop a dialect of it though...

Re: Giants of IT. The giants on whose shoulders we stand. One each day

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Post by yitchelle » Wed, Oct 21, 2015, 11:47 AM UTC

It would be interesting if degrees of separation could be shown between all of these giants.

Re: Giants of IT. The giants on whose shoulders we stand. One each day

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Post by antonpirker » Wed, Oct 21, 2015, 11:51 AM UTC

jfaucett wrote: post #13

antonpirker wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

hi. indeed it is just a list of persons in no particular ordering. The persons you name are of course on the list. Lovelace already visible the others will appear in the future. So every day one person is added. If you have other persons you want to see on the list you can submit person with a link in the footer of the page.

gotcha. nice job btw :)

thx!

Re: Giants of IT. The giants on whose shoulders we stand. One each day

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Post by antonpirker » Wed, Oct 21, 2015, 11:53 AM UTC

yitchelle wrote: post #17

It would be interesting if degrees of separation could be shown between all of these giants.

What do you mean with "degree of separation". Could you elaborate?

Re: Giants of IT. The giants on whose shoulders we stand. One each day

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Post by yitchelle » Wed, Oct 21, 2015, 12:04 PM UTC

antonpirker wrote: post #19

yitchelle wrote: post #17

It would be interesting if degrees of separation could be shown between all of these giants.

What do you mean with "degree of separation". Could you elaborate?

For example, it would be interesting to see if or how Linus Torvalds connected to Charles Babbage via the various relationships through the IT giants. If there are 4(as an example) people between them, their degree of separation is 4.

It is similar to the Erdös number.