Linus Torvalds

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  • Birth

    Born in Finland on December 28, 1969.
  • Period: to

    Attended University of Helsinki

    Masters in computer science.

  • Pac-Man Clone

    Created Pac-Man clone titled "Cool-Man".

  • Linux

    Created Linux

  • Asteroid

    In 1996, the asteroid 9793 Torvalds was named after him.
  • Period: to

    Transmeta

    Worked at Transmeta

  • Pioneer

    In 1998, Torvalds received an EFF Pioneer Award.

  • Innovator

    named by the MIT Technology Review TR100 as one of the world's top 100 innovators under age 35

  • Important People

    He was 17th in their Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century poll.

  • Industry Achievement

    InfoWorld presented him with the 2000 Award for Industry Achievement

  • Love Lace

    In 2000, he was awarded the Lovelace Medal from the British Computer Society.

  • Time Magazine

    Was named one of the most influential people in the world by Time magazine.

  • Vollum

    In August 2005, Torvalds received the Vollum Award from Reed College

  • Hall of Fellows

    In 2008, he was inducted into the Hall of Fellows of the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.

  • Internet Hall of Fame

    On April 23, 2012, at Internet Society's Global INET conference in Geneva, Switzerland, Torvalds was one of the inaugural inductees into the Internet Hall of Fame.

  • IEEE

    On April 23, 2014, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers named Torvalds as the 2014 recipient of the IEEE Computer Society's Computer Pioneer Award.