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Agarao, Elaine S. Ms. Jhustine Rose Dela Cruz

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FAMOUS COMPUTER ENGINEERS

AND THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS

Kevin Systrom | Instagram

(American Computer Programmer and Entrepreneur)

▶ One of the co-founders of the photo-sharing app Instagram

▶ Resigned as the Instagram CEO in 2018
▶ He was listed as one of America’s Richest Entrepreneurs
Under 40 in 2016 and currently on the Forbes Billionaires List

Linus Torvalds | Linux Operating System

(Finnish-American Software Engineer)
▶ Developer and creator of the Linux operating system
▶ Leading supporter of Open Source software
▶ In 2003, he focused exclusively on the kernel, backed by the
Open Source Development Labs (OSDL)
> OSDL is a consortium formed by high-tech companies
which has the purpose of promoting the development of
Linux.
▶ Torvalds remains the ultimate authority on what new code is

John McAfee | McAfee Anti-virus Software

(English-American Computer Programmer and Businessman)
▶ Founder of one of the Anti-virus Software McAfee
▶ In 1987, he created McAfee Associates after learning about
the Brain computer virus made for the PC and created an
antivirus software – VirusScan – that would detect and
remove it.

Jan Koum | WhatsApp

(Ukrainian-American Computer Programmer and Businessman)
▶ Co-founder of WhatsApp
▶ He connected with Igor Solomennikov, a Russia mobile
developer
▶ He named the app WhatApp due to its similarity with the
phrase “what’s up” and released it in May 2009.

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David Baszucki | Roblox

(Canadian-American Entrepreneur, Engineer, and Software Developer
▶ Co-founder and CEO of Roblox
▶ Founder of a company called Knowledge Revolution, which
focused on physics and mechanical engineering software
▶ Roblox is a gaming platform where players can play and
develop games
▶ Launched as DynaBlocks by David Baszucki along with Erik
Cassel (David’s business partner) in 2004
▶ Was later named Roblox (a combination of the words “robots”
and “blocks”) in 2005

John McCarthy | Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Lisp

(American Computer Scientist and Cognitive Scientist)
▶ Father of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
▶ Coined the term artificial intelligence in the mid-1950s and
defined as the “science and engineering of making intelligent
machines”
▶ Creator of Lisp
> the standard programming language used in robotics and
other scientific applications and in a multitude of Internet-
based services, from credit-card fraud detection to airline
scheduling

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