Who Are You?

There are 20 images in this video-clip. Some images have more than one person in them. Put the letter corresponding to each person in the appropriate image-slot. To help, image 18 is M., Linus Torvalds and image 6 is F., Bill Gates. Some images will have more than one letter.

For your image, find one interesting story about the people/person in the image and write a paragraph or two about the person (in terms of the interesting story), his or her contributions to computer science and the world. Include references in your paragraph for the sources you use.

You must post your paragraph(s) on the class discussion forum for which you'll need to register --- please don't post anonymously.

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  1. Steve Jobs
  2. Richard Stallman
  3. Larry Page
  4. Douglas Engelbart
  5. Tim Berners-Lee
  6. Bill Gates
  7. Edsger Dijkstra
  8. Marc Andreesen
  9. Adi Shamir
  10. Claude Shannon
  11. Leonard Adleman
  12. Jaron Lanier
  13. Linus Torvalds
  14. James Gosling
  15. Ron Rivest
  16. Susan Owicki
  17. Sergey Brin
  18. Shawn Fanning
  19. Grace Murray Hopper
  20. Bjarne Stroustrup
  21. Gene Myers
  22. Margo Seltzer
  23. Tony Hoare

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Last modified: Tue Aug 30 07:34:16 EDT 2005