Influential Person
Mark Zuckerberg
Born on May 14, 1984 in Dobbs Ferry, New York, Mark Zuckerberg co-founded the social-networking website Facebook out of his college dorm room. He left Harvard after his sophomore year to concentrate on the site, the user base of which has grown to more than 250 million people, making Zuckerberg a billionaire. The birth of Facebook was recently portrayed in the film The Social Network
Mark Zuckerberg is the founder and CEO of Facebook, which he started in his college dorm room in 2004 with roommates Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.
Zuckerberg is responsible for setting the overall direction and product strategy for Facebook. He leads the design of Facebook’s service and development of its core technology and infrastructure.
Earlier in life, Zuckerberg developed a music recommendation system called Synapse and a peer-to-peer client called Wirehog. However, he abandoned both to pursue new projects.
Zuckerberg attended Harvard University and studied computer science before founding Facebook.
While at Harvard, Zuckerberg created Facemash, a website that compared students’ dorm photos side-by-side in a fashion similar to HOT or NOT. Harvard administration was not amused, and Zuckerberg faced subsequent disciplinary action. Less than three months later, he launched Facebook.
In September 2010, Zuckerberg donated $100 million to the Newark Public School System to help renovate and revamp the system.
Zuckerberg won the 2007 Crunchie Award for ‘Best Startup CEO.’ He was the Time Magazine 2010 Person .0of the Year.
Mark Zuckerberg is the founder and CEO of Facebook, which he started in his college dorm room in 2004 with roommates Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.
Zuckerberg is responsible for setting the overall direction and product strategy for Facebook. He leads the design of Facebook’s service and development of its core technology and infrastructure.
Earlier in life, Zuckerberg developed a music recommendation system called Synapse and a peer-to-peer client called Wirehog. However, he abandoned both to pursue new projects.
Zuckerberg attended Harvard University and studied computer science before founding Facebook.
While at Harvard, Zuckerberg created Facemash, a website that compared students’ dorm photos side-by-side in a fashion similar to HOT or NOT. Harvard administration was not amused, and Zuckerberg faced subsequent disciplinary action. Less than three months later, he launched Facebook.
In September 2010, Zuckerberg donated $100 million to the Newark Public School System to help renovate and revamp the system.
Zuckerberg won the 2007 Crunchie Award for ‘Best Start up CEO.’ He was the Time Magazine 2010 Person of the Year.
1939- Hewlett Packard founded
Hewlett-Packard is founded. David Packard and Bill Hewlett found Hewlett-Packard in a Palo Alto, California garage. Their first product was the HP 200A Audio Oscillator, which rapidly becomes a popular piece of test equipment for engineers. Walt Disney ordered eight of the 200B model to use as sound effects generators for the 1940 movie "Fantasia".
Zuckerberg is responsible for setting the overall direction and product strategy for Facebook. He leads the design of Facebook’s service and development of its core technology and infrastructure.
Earlier in life, Zuckerberg developed a music recommendation system called Synapse and a peer-to-peer client called Wirehog. However, he abandoned both to pursue new projects.
Zuckerberg attended Harvard University and studied computer science before founding Facebook.
While at Harvard, Zuckerberg created Facemash, a website that compared students’ dorm photos side-by-side in a fashion similar to HOT or NOT. Harvard administration was not amused, and Zuckerberg faced subsequent disciplinary action. Less than three months later, he launched Facebook.
In September 2010, Zuckerberg donated $100 million to the Newark Public School System to help renovate and revamp the system.
Zuckerberg won the 2007 Crunchie Award for ‘Best Startup CEO.’ He was the Time Magazine 2010 Person .0of the Year.
Mark Zuckerberg is the founder and CEO of Facebook, which he started in his college dorm room in 2004 with roommates Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.
Zuckerberg is responsible for setting the overall direction and product strategy for Facebook. He leads the design of Facebook’s service and development of its core technology and infrastructure.
Earlier in life, Zuckerberg developed a music recommendation system called Synapse and a peer-to-peer client called Wirehog. However, he abandoned both to pursue new projects.
Zuckerberg attended Harvard University and studied computer science before founding Facebook.
While at Harvard, Zuckerberg created Facemash, a website that compared students’ dorm photos side-by-side in a fashion similar to HOT or NOT. Harvard administration was not amused, and Zuckerberg faced subsequent disciplinary action. Less than three months later, he launched Facebook.
In September 2010, Zuckerberg donated $100 million to the Newark Public School System to help renovate and revamp the system.
Zuckerberg won the 2007 Crunchie Award for ‘Best Start up CEO.’ He was the Time Magazine 2010 Person of the Year.
ICT timeline
1939- Hewlett Packard founded
Hewlett-Packard is founded. David Packard and Bill Hewlett found Hewlett-Packard in a Palo Alto, California garage. Their first product was the HP 200A Audio Oscillator, which rapidly becomes a popular piece of test equipment for engineers. Walt Disney ordered eight of the 200B model to use as sound effects generators for the 1940 movie "Fantasia".
1943
- Project Whirlwind
Project
Whirlwind begins. During World War II, the U.S. Navy approached the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) about building a flight
simulator to train bomber crews.
The
team first built a large analog computer, but found it inaccurate and
inflexible. After designers saw a demonstration of the ENIAC computer, they
decided on building a digital computer.
1953
– Core memory first used
At
MIT, Jay Forrester installed magnetic core memory on
the Whirlwind computer.
Core
memory made computers more reliable, faster, and easier to make.
Such
a system of storage remained popular until the development of semiconductors in
the 1970s.
1969
- First computer controlled robot
Victor
Scheinman´s Stanford Arm made a breakthrough as the first electrically
powered, computer-controlled robot arm.
By
1974, the Stanford Arm could assemble a Ford Model T water pump, guiding itself
with optical and contact sensors.
Scheinman
went on to design the PUMA series of industrial robots for Unimation, robots
used for automobile assembly and other industrial tasks.
1977- Home gaming
is born
Atari
released the Atari Video Computer System (VCS) - later renamed the
Atari 2600.
The VCS was
the first widely successful video game system, selling more than twenty million
units throughout the 1980s.
The
VCS used the 8-bit MOS 6507 microprocessor and was designed to be connected to
a home television set. When the last of Atari’s game consoles were made in
1990, more than 900 game titles had been released.
1980
- First hard disk drive (HDD)
Seagate
Technology created the first hard disk drive for microcomputers,
the ST506. The disk held 5 megabytes of data, five times as much as a
standard floppy disk, and fit in the space of a floppy disk drive.
The
hard disk drive itself is a rigid metallic platter coated on both sides with a
thin layer of magnetic material that stores digital data.
Seagate
quickly drew such big-name customers as Apple Computer and IBM. Within a few
years, it had sold 4 million units.
1998
Windows 98 released
Microsoft released Windows
98. Some U.S. attorneys tried to block its release since the new O/S interlaces
with other programs such as Microsoft Internet Explorer and so effectively
closes the market of such software to other companies.
The
main selling points of Windows '98 were its support for USB and its
support fordisk partitions greater than 2 GB.
2000
Playstation 2 launched
Sony releases
the Playstation 2.
The
PS2 is the best-selling console of all time, having reached over 150
million unitssold as of January 31, 2011. This milestone was reached 10 years
and 11 months after the system was released in Japan on March 4, 2000.
Further,
Sony said it had 10,828 titles available for the system and
that 1.52 billionPS2 titles had been sold since launch.
