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Steve Jobs
Steven Paul Jobs was an American businessman, inventor, and investor. A pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, Jobs co-founded Apple Inc. with his early business partner Steve Wozniak as Apple Computer Company in 1976. After the company's board of directors fired him in 1985, he founded NeXT the same year and purchased Pixar in 1986, becoming its chairman and majority shareholder until 2007. Jobs returned to Apple in 1997 as CEO, where he was closely involved with the creation and promotion of many of the company's most influential products until his resignation in 2011.

Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)

Al Gore
Vice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001 (born 1948)

Larry Page
American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur (born 1973)

Sergey Brin
American billionaire businessman (born 1973)

Douglas Engelbart
American engineer and inventor (1925–2013)

William Gibson
American-Canadian speculative fiction writer (born 1948)
Vint Cerf
American computer scientist (born 1943)
Jawed Karim
American co-founder of YouTube (born 1979)
Steve Chen
Chinese-American businessman
Ivan Sutherland
American computer scientist and Internet pioneer

Bob Kahn
American Internet pioneer, computer scientist (born 1938)

Chad Hurley
American businessman, co-founder of YouTube

Paul Baran
American engineer (1926–2011)
Marc Andreessen
American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer
Bill Joy
American computer scientist

Robin Li
billionaire businessman and entrepreneur

Radia Perlman
American software designer and network engineer (born 1951)
Pierre Omidyar
American entrepreneur and philanthropist; founder of eBay

Leonard Kleinrock
American computer scientist (born 1934)

Robert Cailliau
Belgian engineer and computer scientist (1947)

Jon Postel
American computer scientist (1943–1998)
J. C. R. Licklider
American psychologist and computer scientist (1915–1990)
Robert Taylor
American computer scientist (1932–2017)
Lawrence Roberts
American computer scientist (1937–2018)
Louis Pouzin
French computer scientist
Mitchell Baker
Chairwoman; former CEO (born 1957)
Elizabeth J. Feinler
American information scientist (born 1931)
Martin “John” M. Atalla
electrical engineer and "Father of the PIN" (1924–2009)
Nancy Hafkin
South African computer scientist
Steve Crocker
American Internet pioneer
Eric Bina
American computer programmer
Nicola Pellow
British computer scientist

Deborah Estrin
American computer scientist
Paul Mockapetris
American computer scientist and Internet pioneer
Donald Davies
British computer scientist (1924-2000)
Sylvia Ratnasamy
Belgian scientist
John Gilmore
Internet activist, software programmer and contributor to the GNU project
Jude Milhon
American hacker and author (1939–2003)
Van Jacobson
computer scientist and primary contributor to the TCP/IP protocol
David Boggs
American electrical engineer (1950–2022)

David D. Clark
American computer scientist
Peter J. Denning
American computer scientist and writer
Jun Murai
Japanese computer scientist
Carl Malamud
American technologist, author and public domain advocate (1959-)

Judith L. Estrin
American businesswoman
Dana Ulery
American computer scientist
Joyce K. Reynolds
American computer scientist (1952 – 2015)
Sally Floyd
American computer scientist (1950-2019)
Lixia Zhang
Professor of Computer Science
Leonard Bosack
American businessman, co-founder of Cisco Systems
David L. Mills
American academic computer engineer (1938–2024)

David J. Farber
American computer scientist (1934–2026)
Jim Bell
American anarcho-capitalist
Gloria Suzanne Koenigsberger Horowitz
Mexican astronomer, docent and researcher
Ping Fu
Chinese computer scientist and entrepreneur
Tom Jennings
American artist and computer specialist
Danny Cohen
Israeli internet pioneer (1937-2019)

Werner Zorn
German computer scientist

Glenda Schroeder
American software engineer