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High Priority People Flashcards

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Founder of Microsoft

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Bill Gates

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Developer of UNIX OS

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Dennis Ritchie, Ken Thompson

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Inventor of ARPANET, the predecessor to the Internet

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J. C. R Licklider

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Developer of BASIC

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John Kemeny, Thomas E. Kurtz

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Developed the concept of timesharing

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John McCarthy

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Apple designer responsible for the iMAC, iPod, and iPhone

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Jony Ive

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Creator of the Linux kernel

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Linus Torvalds

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Creator of Facebook

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Mark Zuckerberg

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Inventor of ALOHAnet, the first wireless computer network

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Norm Abramson

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Founder of Apple and NeXT; Macintosh architect

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Steve Jobs

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Inventor of the World Wide Web

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Tim Berners-Lee

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Social Science 23-24 (12 decks)

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