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Good 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.
To me, Bill Gates will always be what Steve Jobs is to so many.
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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.
But please don't redirect giantsofit.org to your current feature, it makes it tedious to correctly bookmark, and share, the site. Minor but unnecessary annoyance.
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) :)
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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 interesti…
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) :)
Just curious but why not Lovelace or gates?