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permanence ?By dbjarrell on June 19, 2009, 8:10 pmThis slide show and list - and the comments - are great and approaching the level of historic. But what are the chances that I will be able to find it and show it to my grandson in 2-3 years ? Seems that NW has made it impossible, or at least very non-obvious, to save a copy that I can personally count on.
Father of...By DrDUH on June 19, 2009, 6:39 pmWell, I designed and built the first Logo wireless turtle...
Kevin MitnikBy Anonymous on June 19, 2009, 6:39 pm... the father of hacking via social engineering
MothersBy Anonymous on June 29, 2009, 5:24 pmGrace Hopper designed the first usable programming language Cobol.
Jon PostelBy Anonymous on June 19, 2009, 5:05 pmHe edited many of the RFC documents, which became the foundation of the protocols for the internet. I wish I could have met him.
Leader of the 'Free' WorldBy Anonymous on June 19, 2009, 4:43 pmLinus Torvalds should have made the list - where would we be without Linux?
Linus Torvalds is well-knownBy Anonymous on June 19, 2009, 6:41 pmThis list is for "unsung" heroes.
LinuxBy Anonymous on June 19, 2009, 6:37 pmWere are we with Linux? I have been in the IT industry for 14 years, Linux has a very small place compared to the father's mentioned in the article. Linux as a long way to go before it can be included in a category like this one.
Larry Roberts: Father of Packet SwitchingBy Anonymous on June 19, 2009, 4:22 pmLAN's or WAN's, without Larry Roberts they wouldn't work. Thanks Larry.
Father of the Disk Drive - Al ShugartBy Anonymous on June 19, 2009, 12:18 pmAl was an icon who helped shape an industry and the technology world we live in today. Al’s career spanned more than 50 years in technology. Beginning at the age of 21, the day after graduating from the University of Redlands, Al started at IBM in 1951. In 1955, Al helped pioneer the development of the world’s first disk drive. In 1969, Al joined Memorex as VP of Product Development and then in 1973 Al founded Shugart Associates. And then in 1979, he founded what he would consider one of his greatest accomplishments, Seagate Technology. During his professional career, noteworthy milestones and recognitions include: In 1997 and 1998 he was named in Forbes as one of Corporate America’s Most Powerful People Heads of state, including Malaysia, knighted him for his contributions to the country and its economy. In 1999, he the Santa Cruz County Sentinel, recognized Al as one of Santa Cruz County’s Top Influential People of the Century 2002 included his inductee into the Electronic Design Hall of Fame And in 2005 was a Fellow Inductee, Computer History Museum
Grace HooperBy Anonymous on April 27, 2009, 6:12 pmShe should be mentioned along with the other great early pioneers in the computer industry. If my memory is correct she was on of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, She also pioneered the concept of having a computer language that was close to English instead of machine language. Her work led to the development of the COBOL language.
Grace HopperBy Anonymous on June 19, 2009, 3:39 pmIt's Grace Hopper, and she was a Rear Admiral in the Navy also. She popularized the term "bug" for a coding error and was an amazing person in many ways. However, since this was for Fathers, the reason for her exclusion is obvious.
PentiumBy Anonymous on June 20, 2008, 5:06 amHow come Vinod Dham the father of the Pentium chip is left out from this list.
Father of Public Relations Spam was a Deccie tooBy Anonymous on June 17, 2008, 1:21 pmHi, I sent the writeup about the Father of Spam to some former Deccies who used to work in PR. One of my former colleagues wrote back (and I said I would post his email in the comment section, so the names are not changed to protect the innocent): Who was the first Deccie to email a press release to a reporter? Yours truly. Some of the editors on the list flamed me because at that time (1988) one did not use the Internet for commercial purposes. So then I sent out a "request list" to reporters so they could request to receive them. Almost all the reporters I had email address for wanted the press releases via email.... they thought it was a novel idea. Of course, Corporate PR knew nothing about this. I eventually called the service "DECnews" and someone in corporate took it over. Dave Price
Roger Billings, father of Client/Server NetworkingBy Anonymous on June 16, 2008, 11:18 amHere's another one that's missing: Roger Billings, the father of Client/Server Networking. He developed this in the early '80s and received the patent. This invention is what what NetWare and most of the network operating systems were based on.
Gary Kildall!By Anonymous on June 14, 2008, 5:14 pmHey, what about Gary Kildall? He did create CP/M, which was copied by a small company (at the time) named Microsoft to make DOS, and the rest, as they say, is history. Of course, Billy G is celebrated as a father of technology, but poor Mr. Kildall is the real father behind DOS....
technology?By Anonymous on June 14, 2008, 1:55 pmSince you call them "Fathers of Technology" it is disappointing that they are all in one sub-subfield of technology, namely information technology. My favorite Father of Technology would be James Watt, credited with invention of the steam engine. That was a seminal invention in the beginnings of industrialization. A second choice would be Thomas Edison, usually credited with invention of the incandescent lamp. Unfortunately lost in the mists of prehistory is the anonymous inventor of The Wheel, without which little that we do today would be possible.
Good point - reach for the ancestors...By Anonymous on June 24, 2008, 4:09 pmWe tend to think of technology in Strong Bad's terms (see link). Watt was a skilled maker of and extender of the slide rule... William Oughtred was the inventor, though. John Napier - inventor of logarithms Without the math tools, we wouldn't have technology?!
who's the father of technology?By Anonymous on June 13, 2008, 9:32 pmFirst, we must define an area of technology to find the father of technology. Let's consider the store & forward packet switching technology - that started all forms of modern computer-controlled networking. That should make Melvin L. Doelz the real father who invented the first commercial modem followed by a S/F message switch.
While far from unknown,By Anonymous on June 13, 2008, 9:31 pmWhile far from unknown, Steve Wozniak gets way too little credit from the mainstream consumer. Steve Jobs is not the sole creator of apple and all of it's fruity goodness. It was Woz, quietly working away in the background that did the real innovation.
Bob Metcalfe?By Anonymous on June 13, 2008, 4:57 pmBob Metcalfe is the father of Ethernet. He went on to form 3Com.
Another fatherBy Anonymous on June 13, 2008, 4:37 pmSteve Sasson, father of the digital camera. the digital camera
Unsung....and ripped offBy Schratboy on June 13, 2008, 10:52 amMy father invented and patented the retractable seat beat. Showing it to GM and offering a license deal, they ended up stealing the idea. So to him, I bestow a unsung father of technology shout-out! GM ripped off the guy who invented the intermittent wind shield wiper too. It took him 15 years of law suits to ultimately win a $75 million dollar judgment against them.
The Father of "Father of...." stories: Neal WeinbergBy Inbox on June 13, 2008, 10:43 amYes, I think that title goes to NW's own Neal W., who also did this story in 2004: Saluting digital dads
alan turing, anyone...By Anonymous on June 13, 2008, 10:29 amalan turing, anyone... anyone ?
Alan Turing on a Father's Day List?By Anonymous on June 13, 2008, 12:18 pmDespite the incredible importance of his works compared to the relative obscurity he remains in today, Alan Turing won't ever make it to a fun, fathers day list because of his:
enigma machineBy Ron Nutter on June 13, 2008, 12:37 pmYes, Turing was an amazing guy. At this year's RSA conference, there were two ``Enigma Machines,'' the German code machines that Turing cracked during WWII. At RSA, you could write a message on one machine and have it de-coded on the other one. It was pretty cool.
alan turing is not unsung...By Anonymous on June 13, 2008, 10:58 am I would have to say that even non-techies may have heard of Alan Turing; he has featured in several movies. Within their fields a lot of these guys are not unsung. Any Java developer would recognize James Gosling, or at least his name, just as any Fortran developer would likely know who Backus was. And to any computer-historian writing a book, Doug Engelbart is usually worthy of a chapter. That is not to say that they do not belong on this list as they are relatively unknown outside their fields, it is just to note that they may not always be unsung.
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RE: 10 unsung fathers of technologyBy Anonymous on June 13, 2008, 8:23 amClaude Shannon was the father of Information Theory, and pioneered the concepts required for digital communications itself.
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unsungBy clarkntl on November 13, 2009, 3:23 amThe best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common Network as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.
unsungBy clarkntl on November 13, 2009, 3:26 amThe best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common Network as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.
unsungBy clarkntl on November 13, 2009, 3:06 amThe best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.
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Claude ShannonBy Anonymous on June 22, 2009, 3:48 pmNot only did Claude Shannon invent information theory, he also is the first to apply Boolean logic to electrical circuits, thus digital electronics. This is a link to his master's thesis @MIT http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/11173
Jim GrayBy Anonymous on June 19, 2009, 11:27 pmper wikipedia, "received the Turing Award in 1998 "for seminal contributions to database and transaction processing research and technical leadership in system implementation"" Every time you do an ATM transaction, thank Jim.
Alan TuringBy Anonymous on August 6, 2009, 2:43 pmWhat about Turing himself then?