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Builders of the Web
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William H. (Bill) Gates -
Chairman and chief executive officer of Microsoft.
Born October 28, 1955
Reported to be the richest private individual in the World
with a net worth of over 50 billion dollars. He dropped out
of Harvard to pursue a career in software... Married Melinda
French (a Product Manager at Microsoft) on January 1, 1994
in Hawaii. First child, Jennifer Katherine, was born on April
26, 1996. Bill's mother Mary Gates died in 1994. Bill has
two sisters, Kirsti and Libby. Kirsti is one year older than
Bill and Libby is nine years younger. Libby has two kids.
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Vannevar
Bush (1890-1974) is the pivotal figure in hypertext research.
His conception of the Memex introduced, for the first time,
the idea of an easily accessible, individually configurable
storehouse of knowledge. Douglas Engelbart and Ted Nelson were
directly inspired by his work, and, in particular, his ground-breaking
article, "As We May Think."
Bush did his undergraduate
work at Tufts College, where he later taught. His master's
thesis (1913) included the invention of the Profile Tracer,
used in surveying work to measure distances over uneven ground.
In 1919, he joined MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering,
where he stayed for twenty-five years. In 1932, he was appointed
vice-president and dean. At this time, Bush worked on optical
and photocomposition devices, as well as a machine for rapid
selection from banks of microfilm.
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A
graduate of Oxford University, England, Tim now holds the 3Com
Founders chair at the Laboratory for Computer Science ( LCS)at
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He directs
the World Wide Web Consortium, an open forum of companies and
organizations with the mission to lead the Web to its full potential.
With a background of system
design in real-time communications and text processing software
development, in 1989 he invented the World Wide Web, an internet-based
hypermedia initiative for global information sharing. while
working at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory.
He wrote the first web client (browser-editor) and server
in 1990.
Before coming to CERN, Tim
worked with Image Computer Systems, of Ferndown, Dorset, England
and before that a principal engineer with Plessey Telecommunications,
in Poole, England.
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Since
John Warnock co-founded Adobe Systems in 1982 with Dr. Charles
Geschke, the two have worked closely together to develop a stream
of pioneering software products that leverage Adobe's core strengths
in graphics, publishing, and electronic document technology.
Warnock shares the chairmanship of the board with Geschke.
For three decades, Warnock
has been respected as an innovator in the field of computer
software. He holds six patents, has contributed many articles
to both technical journals and industry magazines, and is
a frequent speaker on critical issues in the computer and
publishing industries.
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