{உலக மாற்றியவர் யார் முதல் 10 Techies!}

by **logu** Tue Jul 19, 2011 8:59 pm

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Steve Jobs, Apple – Maverick
entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple, Steve Jobs is the current grandmaster of
technology. Business savvy and a risk taker, Jobs is the visionary who
redefined technology with world changing products like the Personal Computer,
iPod, iPhone and iPad.

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Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook –
Whizkid Zuckerberg almost single handedly transformed the Internet from a place
people went to get information to a place they went to meet each other.
Facebook gave the virtual world a patina of humanity, the real world a new
medium of interpersonal relationships, and made Zuckerberg not only this
generation's phenomenon, but also the second youngest billionaire in the world.
Interesting fact: The youngest billionaire is Dustin Moskovitz – co-founder of
Facebook and 8 days younger than Zuckerberg, his Harvard roommate

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Bill Gates, Microsoft – The
Microsoft founder has passed the legion of supergeeks into the pantheon of
technological demi-gods. The richest man in the world from 1995 to 2007 is
currently the second richest. He holds 8 percent of Microsoft stock and now
functions as the non-executive chairman of the company. Over the years, Gates
and wife Melinda have made philanthropy their primary concern and recently
pledged to give away at least half their fortune to charity with time.

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Linus Torvalds, Linux – This
Finnish engineer is virtually unknown outside the inner circles of technology,
yet he is among the most influential figures in software development. A
believer in open source software, Torvalds initiated thedevelopment of the
Linux Kernel. He now acts as the coordinator of the project. The Linux
operating system runs the 10 fastest supercomputers in the world and a diverse
range of hardware including the smallest of devices. A modified version of the
Linux kernel powers the ubiqitous Android OS

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Larry Page and Sergey Brin,
Google – Co-founders of internet behemoth Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin
ran Google from a rented garage in 1998. Twelve years later, Google has left
it's Silicon Valley startup past way behind to become the world's largest media
corporation.

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Evan Williams, Twitter &
Blogger – Virtually unknown in the real world, this college drop-out created
two key communication technologies that shaped the Internet – Blogger and
Twitter. He no longer works at Twitter but he's left an indelible handprint on
the cyberworld.

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Shigeru Miyamoto, Nintendo – Even
if you've never played a video game, chances are you've heard of Super Mario
Bros. Shigeru Miyamoto is the Japanese game designer behind popular Nintendo
titles like Legend of Zelda, Donkey Kong, Star Fox, and the grand old man of
gaming, Mario.

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Jeffrey Bezos, Amazon – In 1994,
this Princeton graduate started Amazon.com from his garage in Seattle and
changed the face of online retail forever. He began with selling books online
but soon diversified into, well, almost everything. Amazon made him a
billionaire as well as Time magazine's person of the year in 1999.

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Tim Berners-Lee, the World Wide
Web – 20 years ago British physicist and computer scientist Berners-Lee
invented the World Wide Web, the first web browser and the first web server.
This man is the reason we can access webpages and surf the Internet using
browsers today. (Photo: AP)

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Akio Morita, Sony – Former naval
officer Akio Morita left his family business of sake, miso and soy sauce to
co-found Sony Corporation in 1946. Most of Sony's path-breaking products like
magnetic tapes, tape recorders, pocket-sized radios, the Walkman and the
Discman were developed under his leadership. (Photo: AP)

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11th Man: Woz – The other Steve
who founded Apple with Steve Jobs was Steve Wozniak. Affectionately called Woz,
he has been credited with developing the Apple I and Apple II computers in the
1970s. He no longer works full time with Apple, but is still a shareholder and
employee of the company.

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