Give me your opinion...

[Ing. Sandy Noa Cabrera]

Hello friends, I want to make a question to you, I'm doing a research about the most important people at computing world of all times, my question is simple: Who is/was the must important person in computing ???
For instance:
- Al Aho
- Charles Babbage
- Stephen Cook
- Edsger Dijkstra
- Robert Floyd
- Donald Knuth
- Alan Kay
- Barbara Liskov
- Alan Turing
- Linus Torvalds
- William Gates
- Steve Jobs
- etc...

Thanks,...





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[Ing. Sandy Noa Cabrera]

Hi friends, please give me your personal opinion.

[Diez B. Roggisch]

On Sep 6, 2012, at 2:41 PM, Ing. Sandy Noa Cabrera wrote:

> Hi friends, please give me your personal opinion.

My personal opinion is that this is a ridiculous and irrelevant question. There is no metric for measuring this kind of thing even for people at contemporary times, and even more so (or less) when trying to compare people over such a long period of time. Especially as it doesn't even *try* to limit the scope - somebody as e.g. Steve Jobs or Bill Gates has *nothing* to do with "computing", but with forming successful businesses, that accidentally happen to be founded in the field of computing.

So just pick one yourself and do whatever you want with the answer. It can't possibly be of scientific relevance, and if it's to e.g. decide upon who to portrait in depth for an essay or some such, your opinion is as good as anyone else's.

Diez

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