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Famous People of Technology Worksheet
1. ______Co-founder of Microsoft. Left the company in 2000 for health reasons. He once owned the Seattle Seahawks.
2. ______He had the idea for the first true computer in the 1820’s. He is known as the father of computing in England.
3. ______Co-founder of Apple computers, but left in 1986.
4. ______She was a Commodore in the Navy and wrote a programming language called Cobol.
5. ______He is currently the richest man in the United States and was the co-founder of Microsoft (Chief Executive Officer).
6. ______Met Bill Gates at Harvard and is currently the CEO of Microsoft.
7. ______Co-founder of Apple Computers and later began the company known as Pixar.
8. ______The co-founder of Oracle, which is the second largest software company.
9. ______At the age of 29 he invented the telephone. He also helped out the Wright Brothers.
10. ______Co-founder and CEO of YouTube. He grew up in Pennsylvania and graduated high school in 1995. He sold YouTube to Google for $1.65 Billion.
11. ______Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of YouTube. At the age of 8 his family emigrated to the United States from China.
12. ______Co-founder of Google. He is currently the President of Technology at Google. He grew up in Moscow.
13. ______Co-founder of Yahoo. He grew up in Louisiana.
14. ______Co founder and former CEO of AOL. He played an instrumental role in the merger between AOL and Time Warner.
15. ______Co-founder of Google. He is currently the President of Products at Google. He grew up in Michigan.
16. ______He is the founder of eBay. He was born in France and moved the United States at the age of 6.
17. ______He is the founder of Amazon.com. He graduated from Princeton University.
18. ______He dropped out of the University of Texas at the age of 19 to run PC's Limited, which later became Dell Computer Corporation, then ultimately Dell Inc.
19. ______He is an American investor, businessman and philanthropist. He is regarded as one of the world's greatest investors and is the largest shareholder and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway.
20. ______Born in 1985, he is an American software developer who is known for his work on the Mozilla web browser; in particular, he started the Mozilla Firefox project. He worked as an intern at Netscape Communications Corporation at the age of 15, while attending high school
21. ______He is a British computer scientist, who is credited with inventing the World Wide Web. During his time at college he was caught hacking with a friend and was subsequently banned from using the university computers.