Muhammad Jazib Aleem's Blogs: May 2012

Sunday, May 27, 2012

Tim Berners-Lee

Tim Berners-Lee

In the complex history of innovation flowing to and from the Internet, one major achievement is uncontested: in 1989-91, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web.

Tim Berners-Lee was born in 1955 in London, England. His parents were both mathematicians, who worked on the Ferranti Mark I, the first computer to be sold commercially. Berners-Lee's childhood hobby was electronics. When he entered Queen's College at Oxford University in 1972, Berners-Lee chose to major in Physics, hoping to utilize his native talents in both scientific theory and practical application.

While at Oxford, Berners-Lee built his first computer. Soon after graduating in 1976, he became an independent software consultant. In this capacity, he spent the latter half of 1980 in Geneva, Switzerland, at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory. While off-duty at CERN, Berners-Lee was pursuing a personal project: an information-storage program that encompassed random associations ("links") between generally unrelated items. This program, called "Enquire," was the conceptual groundwork for what became the Web.

Tim Berners-Lee

Tim Berners-Lee

Tim Berners-Lee

Bill Gates

Born William Henry Gates III, on October 28, 1955, in Seattle, Washington. Gates began to show an interest in computer programming at the age of 13 at the Lakeside School. He pursued his passion through college. Striking out on his own with his friend and business partner Paul Allen, Gates found himself at the right place at the right time. Through technological innovation, keen business strategy, and aggressive competitive tactics he built the world's largest software business, Microsoft. In the process he became one of the richest men in the world.

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Bill Gates

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Bill Gates on energy: Innovating to zero!

Bill Gates on tablet, software modeling

Bill Gates talks about Microsoft and the Altair 8800 (1994)

Friday, May 25, 2012

Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs was the co-founder and CEO of Apple and formerly Pixar.
Steve Jobs was born in San Francisco, California to Joanne Simpson and a Syrian father. Paul and Clara Jobs of Mountain View, California then adopted him. In 1972, Jobs graduated from Homestead High School in Cupertino, California and enrolled in Reed College in Portland, Oregon. One semester later, he had dropped out, later taking up the study of philosophy and foreign cultures.
Steve Jobs had a deep-seated interest in technology, so he took up a job at Atari Inc, then a leading manufacturer of video games. He struck a friendship with fellow designer Steve Wozniak and attended meetings of the “Homebrew Computer Club” with him.
After saving up some money, Jobs took off for India in the search of enlightenment. Once he returned, he convinced Wozniak to quit his job at Hewlett Packard to join him in his venture that concerned personal computers. They sold items like scientific calculators to raise the seed capital.
In 1976, Jobs and Wozniak founded Apple Computer in the Jobs family garage. The first personal computer was sold for $666.66. By 1980, Apple had already released three improved versions of the personal computer. It had a wildly successful IPO, which made both founders millionaires many times over.

Steve Jobs

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Steve Jobs Funniest Joke Ever!

Steve Jobs explains the Apple Store

The Steve Jobs '95 Interview, unabridged

Lawrence Larry Page

Lawrence Larry Page

Internet entrepreneur, computer scientist. Born Lawrence Page on March 26, 1973 in East Lansing, Michigan. Page's father Carl was a pioneer in computer science and artificial intelligence and his mother taught computer programming. After earning a bachelor of science degree in engineering from the University of Michigan, Page decided to concentrate on computer engineering at Stanford University, where he met Sergey Brin.

As a research project at Stanford University, Page and Brin created a search engine that listed results according to the popularity of the pages, after concluding that the most popular result would often be the most useful. They called the search engine Google after the mathematical term "Googol," which is a 1 followed by 100 zeros, to reflect their mission to organize the immense amount of information available on the Web.

Lawrence Larry Page

Lawrence Larry Page

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Tradition of Innovation: Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Co-founders

Larry Page discusses Facebook's contact sharing on Charlie Rose

Larry Page on Capitol Hill - "Broadband for the Future"

Monday, May 21, 2012

Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg
Born on May 14, 1984, in Dobbs Ferry, New York, Mark Zuckerberg co-founded the social-networking website Facebook out of his college dorm room. He left Harvard after his sophomore year to concentrate on the site, the user base of which has grown to over 250 million people, making Zuckerberg a billionaire. The birth of Facebook was recently portrayed in the film The Social Network.

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