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Alan Turing:

He made the list because he was the founder of computer science. Right now he's dead He was born in 1912 in Paddington, London He has not written anything in the past five years. He died in 1954 His photo can be found here: http://www.turing.org.uk/turing/pi1/busframed4.jpg

Person's Name: Stewart Brand

1. Noteworthy Achievements: Build the world's slowest computer- a 10,000 year clock.

2. What are they doing now?: Trying to document every form of life within the next 25 years.

3. Birthdate & Place: December 14, 1938. Rockford, Illinois

4. Articles or Books: "The Clock of the Long Now" and "How Buildings Learn: What Happens After Their Built"

5. Look like: http://www.well.com/user/sbb/SBcolorpic.jpg

Steve Wozniak

Question 1: Why do you think they made this list? (What did they do? What makes them noteworthy?)
Answer: Steve Wozniak formed Apple Computer with Steve Jobs and together they released the Apple II in 1977. I believe he made this list due to the large impact that Apple Computer and the Apple II had on the computer industry.

Question 2: What are they doing now?
Answer: Currently, Steve Wozniak is head of Wheels of Zeus, a company that Wozniak created in 2001 that provides wireless solutions.

Question 3: When and where were they were born?
Answer: Steve Wozniak was born in 1950 in Sunnyvale, CA.

Question 4: Have they written any articles or books in the past five years? If so, what?
Answer: Wozniak regularly posts to his own personal website, woz.org.

Question 5: What do they look like? (Find a photo and provide the URL to it.)
Answer: He looks kinda like this: click here

Mitch Kapor 1) He made this list because he was the co-founder of the former Lotus Development Corporation and creator of the lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet. 2) He is interested in open source development of software such as linux, and trying to get the government to fund this type of development. 3) He was born in 1950 in Brooklyn, New York. 4) He has contributed articles, columns, and op-ed pieces on information infrastructure policy, intellectual property issues, and antitrust in the digital era to publications such as Scientific American, The New York Times, Forbes, Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, and Communications of the ACM. 5)Picture: http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?vinst=PROD&fmt=4&filenumber=1&clientid=3589&vname=PQD&RQT=309&did=000000375742231&scaling=FULL&ts=1094742480&vtype=PQD&rqt=309

Kevin Mitnick

1. Why do you think they made this list? (What did they do? What makes them noteworthy?) He is one of the biggest hackers ever. He broke into some of the most guarded computer systems in the USA. He was arrested then released in 2002.

   1. What are they doing now? He is now the CEO of a security computer.

2. When and where were they were born? He was born in born August 6, 1963 and was born in Los Angeles.i

3. Have they written any articles or books in the past five years? If so, what? Yes he has written two books The Fugitive Game: Online with Kevin Mitnick, and akedown: The Pursuit and Capture of Kevin Mitnick, America's Most Wanted Computer Outlaw-By the Man Who Did It.

4. What do they look like? (Find a photo and provide the URL to it.) http://en.wikipedia.org/upload/6/6d/Kevinmitnick.jpg

Paul Allen made the list because he co founded Microsoft with Bill Gates in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1975. He was at the head of the move to buy a prototype of the DOS program, which was very important to the growth of Microsoft. He's extremely wealthy (21 billion dollars, and the 5th wealthiest man in the world). He currently owns The Portland Trailblazers, the Seattle Seahawks, The Rose Garden, and various other enterprises and buildings throughout Washington. Here's a small picture of him http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/38200000/jpg/38200985paulallen150.jpg

Paul Allen made the list because he co-founded Microsoft in 1975, and helped engineer MSdos and Word. He is currently is investing in what he calls a wired world, being the Chariman for Vulcan Northwest, and owns Marcus cable. Allen was born in 1954 in Seattle, Washington. He has not written any books or articles in the past 5 years. here is a picture of him... http://www.wattfarm.com/blog/archives/photos/AccZill.jpg

1)Alan Kay was a founder of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and one of the developers of the modern workstation, the forerunner of the MACs, and the overlapping windows concept. 2)He is currently a Sr Fellow at HP and Pres of Viewpoints Research Institute. 3)He was born in Springfield, Mass (probably in the 1940's). 4)He recently (Jan 2004) presented at the Procedings of the 9th International Conference on Intelligent User Interface 5)A photo can be seen at http://www.viewpointsresearch.org/alan.html

1. Why do you think they made this list? (What did they do? What makes them noteworthy?)
Founded Cray Research in 1972 with the idea of building the worlds’ highest performance general-purpose supercomputers. His CRAY-1 supercomputer was capable of processing from 20 to 60 million floating point operations per second. Additionally, he was also an inventor, holding patents on cooling technology, and a magnetic amplifier.

2. What are they doing now?
Nothing, due to his death in 1996

3. When and where were they were born?
He was born in 1925 in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin

4. Have they written any articles or books in the past five years? If so, what?
No

5. What do they look like? (Find a photo and provide the URL to it.)
http://www.cray.com/images/SeymourCray.jpg

I did some research on Kevin Mitnick and the amount of pages, articles and other opinions is overwhelming! I also would like to point out that the bias towards both sides is so ridiculous, it is comical! Personally, I think I will choose another personality, and hope that the information out there is not as biased.

Anyways, here is a peek at who Kevin Mitnick (for those of you who don't know) is;

Kevin made this list for being (in the mid-90s) one of the most wanted computer "criminal" and social engineer. He had broken into various companies networks (Sun, DEC, etc.), supposedly stole intellectual property, stole proprietary software source code and then posted it to the puclic, intercepted data and voice comunications (a cell phone jockey :-D ). He was caught by Tsutomu Shimomura in Raleigh, NC my means of cell phone tracking and triangulation.

Today, he is free (did I mention he served 40 months in prison, and that he is still on probation?) and runs a consultion firm to help other firms to train their staff and secure their electronic resources from maluse.

Here is picture of him with cuffs as well as a short biography of Tsutomu Shimomura ; http://www.takedown.com/bio/index.html (a very biased site by the way - which you would expect it to be; it is Tsutomu Shimomura's! )

1. Why do you think they made this list? (What did they do? What makes them noteworthy?) This engineer helped design an innovation which was nicknamed "The Trojan Cockroach" which was a project in the 1980s at Carnegie Mellon University. This "cockroach" was in effect one of the first walking machines developed and actually worked. This is not his only accomplishment as he has recieved the Smithsonian Award for visualizing computer code into what we now consider as graphics. He also recieved the Price Waterhouse Information Technology Leadership Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1996. In 1968 these graphics were crude yet cutting edge and without Ivan Sutherland there would be no Sun Microsystems and the products we now take advantage and don't even think twice about would not be around. Not just inventing or designing is his cup of tea but also writing. Fourty-Nine publishings and 12 patents is under his belt.

2. What are they doing now? Mr. Sutherland is currently the Vice President of Sun Microsystems, Inc. and continually researching newer and advanced techniques, code, and ideas.

3. When and where were they were born? In 1938 in Hastings, Nebraska

4. Have they written any articles or books in the past five years? If so, what? Yes, "Logical Effort: Designing Fast CMOS Circuits" in 1999

5. What do they look like? (Find a photo and provide the URL to it.) http://www.sun.com/960710/feature3/ivanbw.45.jpg

1. I believe he was on the list because he is a renown software designer including KPT and Bryce.

2. He is currently working on improving such software as microsoft word and as he put it "improving the status quo"

3. He was born in Germany in 1957

4. My research did not provide and written articles or books in the last 5 years

5. You can check him out at http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bios/krause.html

Person: Mitch Kapor

1. He was the founder of lotus Development Corporation. He created Lotus 123 in 1983 and Lotus Agenda in 1987

2. He is currently working on a project named Chandler which will organize documents, mail, digital media and other pieces of related information into one program.

3. He was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1951

4. I did not find any books written by him.

5.http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?vinst=PROD&fmt=4&filenumber=1&clientid=3589&vname=PQD&RQT=309&did=000000445676681&scaling=HALF&ts=1094742672&vtype=PQD&rqt=309

Meg Whitman: 1.) She is currently the President & CEO of eBay, and is responsible for the company's enormous success. She previously worked with several well known companies, such as Hasbro and FTD.
2.) She is still head of eBay, and is working on bringing eBay into new international markets. Although she is the head of the company, she still answers e-mail from eBay users, and responds to what they like/don't like about the site.
3.) She was born in 1957 in Cold Spring Harbor, NY. 4.) She hasn't written any articles or books.
5.) Meg Whitman

Why do you think they made this list? (What did they do? What makes them noteworthy?) --Mitch Kapor is the founder of the Lotus Development Corporation. What are they doing now? --Mitch Kapor is a trustee of the Institute for Inclusive Work Environments. It a non-profit organization who's mission is to "enhance equal opportunity in the workplace and support the values of an inclusive society." When and where were they were born? --He was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1950. Have they written any articles or books in the past five years? If so, what? --N/A What do they look like? (Find a photo and provide the URL to it.) --http://www.kei.com/homepages/mkapor/

             Kevin Mitnick

Born in Raleigh, North Carolina on August 6, 1963, Mitnick grew up to be on of the worlds most famous hackers. Post release from prison he wrote a book called "The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security" which was published in October of 2002. Mitnick Currently works as CEO of a security company called "Defense Thinking". A picture of Mitnick is available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Kevinmitnick.jpg" .

On Vinton Cerf... 1 - He helped design the TCP/IP protocols. Along with his partner, Robert E. Kahn, Cerf was awarded the U.S. National Medal of Technology in 1997 for his work in developing the internet. Also, he led the engineering team MCI Mail, and made the first commercial Email service. 2 - He is now the Senior Vice President of Technology Strategy for MCI 3 - He was born on June 23, 1943 in New Haven, Connecticut. 4 - His work, "On the Commercial Interconnection of the Internet Service Providers" has recently been published (i think it was published, anyway). 5 - Find his image at http://www.ieee.org/organizations/history_center/legacies/cerf.html

1. Alan Kay is known in the field of contemporary computing for several notable accomplishments. Perhaps the most prominent being a windowed graphical user interface, which is seen in virtually every modern computer system. But in addition, he was involved with the creation of Smalltalk programming language and also as a key player in the concept of object-oriented programming. He also conceptualized the idea of a personal laptop computer called "Dynabook" as well.
2. Alan Kay is currently at work at Hewlett-Packard.
3. Alan Kay was born in Springfield, MA in 1940. 4.
4. A photo of Alan Kay can be viewed here: http://www.acm.org/acm1/conference/images/alan_kay.gif

1. I think they made this list because these people made significant contributions to the growth of technology and development. Allan Kay is co founder of microsoft and helped engeneer Ms Dos and Word. What makes him noteworthy is the fact that most students and including myself use dos and word to write programs such as java. This advances students carrers and enables them to improve or take his work even further into development. www.time.com/time/digital/cyberelite/13.html

2. Now he is working on wired world a trying to link entertainment with technology.

3. He was born in seattle washington. Januaary 1, 1953

Scott McNealy made the list because he is co-founder Sun Microsystems, and is currently the Chairman, President and CEO. Sun Microsystems was founded in 1982 and is currently a leading computer networking technology company.

Recently he has teamed up with AOL in his battle against Microsoft. This gives him millions of consumers to test Sun's new technologies. He also bought out a German Software firm called Star Division which makes software applications that competes with Microsoft's Office package.

He was born in 1954 in Los Angeles, California.

He is an author of "Lonely Planet California," which was published on March 1, 2003.

You can find a picture of him here : http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/ceo/mgt_mcnealy.html

Brenda Laurel is a designer, researcher and a writer. She has written books such as The art of Human Computer Interface Design, Computers as Theatre, and newest one Utopian Entrpreneur. She also has a collection of essays Severed Heads. A photo of her can be seen at http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.stuartink.com/MediaArchives/PurpleMoon/BrendaLaurel.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.stuartink.com/MediaArchives/PurpleMoon/PurpleMoon3.html&h=380&w=677&sz=96&tbnid=yukdL-u51-AJ:&tbnh=76&tbnw=135&start=35&prev=/images%3Fq%3DBrenda%2BLaurel%26start%3D20%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26sa%3DN

Bob Kahn

1. He made the list because he is the co-inventor of the TCP/IP protocols and the originator of DARPA's Internet Program
2. Right now he is is developing digital object architecture.
3. Unknown
4. No he has not published anything in the past 5 years
5. A picture of him is located here http://livinginternet.com/i/ii_kahn.htm

John Carmack

While not on the list, I chose programming guru John Carmack. He is responsible for games such as Wolfenstein, the Doom series, and the Quake series. His games are known world-wide and have had influenced the way every first person shooter is created today. His programming skills are among the best in the world, and his focus on detail is amazing.

He is the founder of id software and still works as lead programmer there. He also recently started a space program.

He was born August 20th, 1970 and Shawnee Mission, Kansas.

A biography was just written on the creators of Doom (Carmack and Romero) and Carmacks programmings logs have recently been converted to blog format for anyone to read. They document his programs from mid-90s to 2002.

His picture can be found here: http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,22354/

I researched Steve Wozniak

1) Woz is the founder of Apple Computers and he is also an engineer who created the Apple II, one of the first personal computers. 2) Currently, Woz is working on a project known as the Wheels of Zeus (wOz) which is a wireless/GPS oriented project. 3) Woz was born in 1950 in San Jose, CA 4) To see what Woz is currently doing, you can visit his website: http://www.woz.org/ 5) A picture of woz: http://www.thetech.org/revolutionaries/wozniak/images/RevWozniakLg.gif

Kevin Mitnick

Why do you think they made this list? Was immortalized by being the FBI's most wanted hacker. He was charged with over 25 counts of alleged federal computer and wire fraud violations.

What are they doing now? The CEO of his own security consulting company Defensive Thinking

When and where were they were born? August 6, 1963

Have they written any articles or books in the past five years? The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security

Picture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Kevinmitnick.jpg

I chose to research a bit on Paul Allen, Paul Allen was born in Seattle, Washington in 1953. He made this list since he was the co-founder of microsoft, alongside Bill Gates. He played a major role in building the company and making the company the powerful business it is today.

Brenda Laurel

Brenda Laurel has founded and cofounded several companies including Interval Research, Purple Moon (a company geared toward producing software and technology for girls), and Telepresence Research, as well as worked for such companies as Apple, Activision and Atari. Laurel co-designed and produced Place Holder, a virtual environment project in 1993. She is currently the Chair of The Media Design Program at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. Interestingly enough, Laurel holds a MFA and PhD in theatre from Ohio State University. She has written and edited several books, most recently "Utopian Entrepreneur" in 2001, and "Design Research: Methods and Perspectives" released in June of 2004. I was unable to locate her place and date of birth, although she currently lives near San Francisco with her family. A picture of Brenda Laurel can be seen at her website, http://www.tauzero.com/Brenda_Laurel/.

Howard Rheingold

1. Howard Rheingold is the founder of Electric Minds-a web publishing company,and was one of the creators and former founding Executive Editor of HotWired, an online magazine.

2. He runs a consulting network called Rheingold Associates, and they help build online social networks and communites for educational, commercial, and nonprofit organizations.

3. He lives in San Francisco with his family, but I couldn't find when and where he was born.

4. He wrote "The Virtual Community", "Tools for Thought", "Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution" and writes articles for a multimedia newspaper. He's an author of other books, but they were written more than five years ago.

5. See his colorful man at www.rheingold.com

1.      Why do you think they made this list? (What did they do? What makes them noteworthy?)

Co-designer of TCP/IP protocol Authored the framework of how the internet communicates and how the framework of the computers speak Set four goals for the design of what would become TCP Transmission Control Protocol • Network connectivity • Distribution o No central network • Error recovery • Black box design o No changes would be necessary

2.      What are they doing now?

Chairman, CEO and President of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives

3.      When and where were they were born?

December 23, 1938 in Brooklyn, NY

• 4. Have they written any articles or books in the past five years? If so, what? My research did not find any published material for Mr. Kahn during the last 5 years. 5. What do they look like? (Find a photo and provide the URL to it.) http://livinginternet.com/i/ii_kahn.htm photo

-John Carew

1) Howard Rheingold is a man who writes books about the advancements and communication enhancements to be made with technology and the internet.

2) At this time, Mr. Rheingold is writing his next book, already titled Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution, which involves the effects of things such as text messaging with cell phones.

3) And he was born on July 7th in a year I couldn’t find, in a place I couldn’t find.

4) In the past five years, Mr. Rheingold has written Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology, VIRTUAL REALITY: THE REVOLUTIONARY TECHNOLOGY OF COMPUTER-GENERATED ARTIFICIAL WORLDS-AND HOW IT, They Have a Word for It: A Lighthearted Lexicon of Untranslatable Words & Phrases (Writer's Studio), and The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier, revised edition, Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution.

5) http://www.rheingold.com/art/tokyo-shinjukutiny.jpg