Ten most influential technologists of the last 150 years

In the opinion of a panel of experts picked by the chipmaker Intel to select the 50 most influential technologists of the last 150 years, the top ten are:

1. Tim Berners-Lee, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) founder in 1994, and the first to combine hypertext and Internet to create a web application in 1990;
2. Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google in 1998;
3. Larry Page, co-founder of Google in 1998;
4. Guglielmo Marconi, inventor of the radiotelegraph system, Nobel prize winner for physics in 1909;
5. Jack Kilby, inventor of the integrated circuit, Nobel prize winner for physics in 2000;
6. Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel in 1968 and the author in 1965 of the "Moore's law", according to which the capacity of microprocessors doubles every 18 months;
7. Alan Turing, mathematician in charge of breaking the German Enigma code during World War II, and a pioneer of computer science, most famous for his "Turing machine" and "Turing test" concepts;
8. Robert Noyce, co-founder of Intel in 1968;
9. William Shockley, co-inventor of the transistor, Nobel prize winner for physics in 1956;
10. Don Estridge, leader of the IBM PC development team in the early 1980's.

(List of the 50 names in http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/technotes/jan08/mostinfluentialtechies.htm/)

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