Scott Fahlman

Scott Fahlman.

Creator of first “smiley”.Emoticon

United States of America.

Scott Fahlman is credited with originating the first "smiley" or "emoticon,".J

Scott Fahlman was born on March 21, 1948, in Medina, Ohio, USA. Fahlman received his bachelor's degree and master's degree in 1973 from MIT, and his Ph.D. from MIT in 1977. he is credited with originating the first "smiley" or "emoticon," which he thought would help people on a message board at CMU to distinguish serious posts from jokes. He proposed the use of :-) and :-( for this purpose, and the symbols caught on. The original message board post from which these symbols originated was posted on September 19, 1982. It was retrieved in 2002 by a team of computer specialists seeking to validate the claim, which is still disputed. Here is a part of Scott's original post:

19-Sep-82 11:44 Scott E Fahlman :-)

From: Scott E Fahlman

I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers:

:-)

Read it sideways. Actually, it is probably more economical to mark

things that are NOT jokes, given current trends. For this, use

:-(

Scott Fahlman is a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University. He is notable for early work on Automated Planning in a blocks world, on semantic networks, on neural networks (and, in particular, the cascade correlation algorithm) and on Common Lisp (in particular CMU Common Lisp).

I call some of my friends by the name emoticon, so this amazing info is dedicated for you all emoticons…

Robert Dennard

Inventor of RAM

United States of America

Robert Dennard invented one of the most significant advances in computer technology: dynamic random access memory, best known as "RAM."

Robert Dennard was Born in Terrell, Texas; on Sep 5 1932 he received BS (1954) and MS (1956) degrees in Electrical Engineering from Southern Methodist University. In 1958 he received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Carnegie Institute of Technology and joined IBM's Research Division.

In 1966, Dennard invented one-transistor Dynamic Random Access Memory (or DRAM, better known simply as RAM).At that time, he was at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center, where he has worked on field-effect transistors, integrated circuit design, and memory cells and organizations.

Dennard received the patent for one-transistor DRAM in 1968.

Before his invention, computers were too large and heavy to be installed in private homes or desk tops. In fact, they required separate storage space and air conditioning to cool them.This invention of one-transistor Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) allowed major increases in computer memory density and decreases in cost.

The Founder of Oracle

Larry Ellison

Founder of The Oracle Corporation.

United States of America.

Larry Ellison was the founder and CEO of the major database software firm Oracle Corporation.

Lawrence Joseph Ellison was born in Bronx, NY on 17-Aug-1944. Ellison was born out of wedlock to a 19-year-old girl, and was raised by her aunt. He had an early aptitude for mathematics, and worked as a young man for Ampex Corporation. He founded Oracle in 1977, putting up $2000 of his own money, under the name Software Development Laboratories. In 1979 the company was renamed Relational Software Inc., later to be renamed Oracle after the flagship product Oracle database. He had heard about the IBM System R database, also based on Codd's theories, and wanted Oracle to be compatible with it, but IBM stopped this by keeping the error codes for their DBMS secret. The initial release of Oracle was Oracle 2, even though there was no Oracle 1.It is a marketing tactic. The release number was intended to imply that all of the bugs had been worked out of an earlier version.

Ellison realized that Oracle had been slow to harness the Internet, to integrate and streamline business processes, and to create value for customers compared to the other digital pioneers at that time in 1998. With in two years Oracle was able to accomplish what took Cisco and other digital pioneers four years.

It is very proud of the fact that all ten of the world's largest Web sites, from Amazon.com to Yahoo!, rely on the Oracle database. It quickly adds that 98 of the Fortune 100 use Oracle for e-business. Now Oracle is also one of the world’s leading suppliers of application software.

Moreover oracle acquired Sun, and now Java and its future is in hands of this man, is it?