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Alan Mathison Turing, was a British pioneering computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, mathematical biologist.
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Steven Paul Jobs was an American entrepreneur, marketer, and inventor, who was the cofounder, chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc. Through Apple, he is widely recognized as a charismatic and design-driven pioneer of the personal computer revolution
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William Henry "Bill" Gates is an American business magnate, philanthropist, investor, computer programmer, and inventor.Gates originally established his reputation as the co-founder of Microsoft, the world’s largest PC software company, with Paul Allen.
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The IBM 610 Auto-Point Computer was one of the first personal computers, in the sense of a computer to be used by one person whose previous experience with computing might only have been with desk calculators.
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Garry Kimovich Kasparov is a Russian (formerly Soviet) chess Grandmaster, former World Chess Champion, writer, and political activist, considered by many to be the greatest chess player of all time.
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The Intel 4004 ("four-thousand-four") is a 4-bit central processing unit (CPU) released by Intel Corporation in 1971. It was the first microprocessor as well as the first general purpose programmable microprocessor on the market.
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Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports and sells computer software, consumer electronics and personal computers and services.
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Augusta Ada Byron , was an English mathematician and writer chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer,
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The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link several billion devices worldwide.
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In 1995, Larry Page and Sergey Brin met at Stanford University as graduate students in computer science. By January of 1996, the pair began collaborating on writing a program for a search engine dubbed BackRub, named after its ability to do back link analysis.
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Deep Blue was a chess-playing computer developed by IBM. It is known for being the first piece of artificial intelligence to win both a chess game and a chess match against a reigning world champion under regular time controls.
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Pentium 4 is a line of single-core desktop, laptop and entry level server central processing units (CPUs) introduced by Intel on November 20, 2000 and shipped through August 8, 2008. They had a seventh-generation x86 microarchitecture, called NetBurst, which was the company's first all-new design since the introduction of the P6 microarchitecture of the Pentium Pro CPUs in 1995.
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The Million Dollar Homepage is a website conceived in 2005 by Alex Tew, a student from Wiltshire, England, to raise money for his university education. The home page consists of a million pixels arranged in a 1000 × 1000 pixel grid; the image-based links on it were sold for US$1 per pixel in 10 × 10 blocks.
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who bartered his way from a single red paperclip to a house in a series of fourteen online trades over the course of a year. MacDonald was inspired by the childhood game Bigger, Better, and the site received a considerable amount of notice for tracking the transactions. "A lot of people have been asking how I've stirred up so much publicity around the project, and my simple answer is: 'I have no idea'", he told the BBC.
