Vint Cerf

[about_average]

http://thecolbertreport.cc.com/guests/vint-cerf/x9hnxr/vint-cerf-pt--2
Short segment, but a good sense of humor.

 

[The Heretic]

People know who Bill Gates is, but very few people know who Vint Cerf, James Gosling, etc. are.

Many people lamented the death of Steve Jobs, but at the same time almost nobody took notice of the death of a much more important computer industry personage, Dennis Ritchie, at about the same time - because Steve was rich and the head of Apple, but Dennis Ritchie was the inventor of the C language without which it is doubtful that Apple, or Microsoft for that matter, would ever have gotten to where they are today.

These are the more or less anonymous people who work behind the scenes to make modern life with computers possible.

How many people know who William Shockley was?

Without his invention none of this would have been possible. You would not have a personal computer, much less a cell phone of any kind.

We could easily do without Steve Jobs or Bill Gates, but we can't do without somebody like these unknown geniuses of technology. Steve Jobs would have gone nowhere without Steve Wozniak. Nowhere.

 

[Ishmael]

Stepping outside the digital realm, how about Bob Widlar?

Ishmael

 

[about_average]

People know who Bill Gates is, but very few people know who Vint Cerf, James Gosling, etc. are.

Yah, I figured some here would know. And maybe others would find out.

If not for Joseph Jacquard Vint Cerf might not have been able to do what he did.

 

[The Heretic]

Stepping outside the digital realm, how about Bob Widlar?

Ishmael

I admit, I had never heard of him.