Author Description

This volume offers up-to-date accounts of the lives and work of more than 200 contemporary and historical innovators. Readers will enjoy profiles of Seymour Cray, designer of the first supercomputer, Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web and HTML, Jack St. Clair Kilby, co-creator of the microchip, and Ray Tomlinson, e-mail pioneer. Entrepreneurs are also represented, among them Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com, and Nolan Bushnell, developer of PONG, plus many others who've shaped the present digital landscape. A timeline is also included.