"classified"? Why not just use the wikipedia pictures for these people?
Giants of IT. The giants on whose shoulders we stand. One each day
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Ah, now I understand. This would be a really cool thing. With this data we could also create graphs of relationships and we also could find the Erdös of IT.
But I think for me this is to much effort to create something like this (One would need to study all the resumes of the giants to find out their relationships and so on.)
But if anyone wants to create something like this I more then willing to give them my list of giants.
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#23How many more times am I going to have to read that Ada Lovelace was the first programmer? It is getting to be annoying.
I remembered reading an article regarding this over-hype - https://web.archive.org/web/20060813072159/http://archive.sa...
Also this video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7K5p_tBcrd0&feature=youtu.be... jumping to minute 36 where Ada is discussed by the speaker.
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#24To me, Bill Gates will always be what Steve Jobs is to so many.
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#25"classified"? Why not just use the wikipedia pictures for these people?
The license of some of the Wikipedia pictures are preventing me to use them, sorry.
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#26Here's another list, probably very similar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pioneers_in_computer_s...
Oddly missing Haskell Curry and Robert Feys (type inference), Peter Landin (more or less all modern functional programming[0]), Robin Milner (type inference, ML, CCS), ...
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
What would be the connection?
Perhaps: Has contributed to the same software project
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#28Good page! But Bill Gates did not develop BASIC or DOS.
Gates (along with Allen) did however implement BASIC on quite a few machines. BASIC is a very simple interpreted language, but it was technically impressive to get it running on certain machines of the day as well as it opening the doors to countless other people to begin their journey programming.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
You need an activity to connect them, though. Erdos numbers are based on collaborative math publications. The problem here is that some are researches (you could do cs publications), some are software developers (torvalds, gates), and some are just really influential.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
I think he means the date is of special interest to that person. ie, birthday, deathday, day they released the first version of programming language x, day they founded company y, day product z sold it's first million copies, etc. Or even keeping it topical such as with a new release of OS X you could have one of the core designers / developers of the first version of MacOS.
It would make the list much more interesting, but would be significantly harder to curate and would require you add some additional blurb to explain why that individual was chosen for that day of the year. So I can't blame you for going down the lower maintenance route of just compiling a random order list of influential figures.