Living Computing History
I consider myself fortunate to have met a few of the people that have profoundly influenced computing. It is perhaps a triviality to claim that computing is the revolution of the society that we are actual witnessing, and I find it fascinating to understand more about some of the powerful personalities that are driving this revolution.
I will have more to say about my personal theory on who actually influences computing in another post. I perceive a great deal of confusion around about who are the actual drivers of change: is it industry, academia, the open-source movement, underground hackers, industrial consortia, etc. I believe that the answer should be sought on a case-by-case basis. Otherwise said, each of these has important contributions to claim.
But let me come back to my main thread: I will try to share in this space insights that I manage to obtain from some of these personalities.
I am openly encouraging discussion, and I am allowing everybody to comment for now. However, I will mercilessly remove comments which I find off-topic, or that I find inflammatory or derogatory. My main goal is to provide an interesting discussion ground for everybody, including the text and comments.