“Intel recently took the time to assemble a panel of experts including academics, journalists and independent third parties to vote on technology’s 45 most influential people at a judging session held in London last week,” HEXUS.net reports.
“The winner? Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the 52 year old English-born developer, who invented the World Wide Web in March 1989. Acknowledged by Intel, Sir Berners-Lee has been labelled as ‘the most influential person in technology over the past 150 years for his impact on society and ground-breaking technology,'” HEXUS.net reports.
MacDailyNews Note: During a lecture at the Royal Society in London in 2003, Berners-Lee revealed that he invented the World Wide Web using one of Steve Jobs’ NeXT computers (running the forerunner of Mac OS X). By the way, Berners-Lee presented that 2003 lecture using Apple’s Mac OS X and Safari Web browser on an Apple PowerBook.
HEXUS.net continues, “The two founders of Intel, Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce both featured in the top ten and perhaps surprising to some, Apple’s Steve Jobs and Microsoft’s Bill Gates failed to do so, they both make the list at 14th and 31st, respectively.”
MacDailyNews Note: Steve Wozniak is #42.
The complete list of Intel’s 45 most influential technologists from the past 150 years is here.
#14 huh?
Number One: Tim Berners Lee !!! Yes I’ve got to agree… Bravo, vous avez raison. Vraiment tres cool.
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates not making top ten. Okay, I can leave with that since they didn’t invent anything.
Wozniak Nomber 42???!!! No I can’t take, it. The guy really innovated.
Larry Page and Sergei Brin making top 3???!!! No way… Seauch Engine, Indexation etc. existed before Google… No way, c’est de la merde ce classement !!!!
I’m glad Philo Farnsworth made the list. And #11 should be Engelbart not ‘bert.
I meant “Search Engine”
Guys, Wozinak can’t come behind Meg Whitman, after Omidyar and Chambers.
It’s also frustrating that Dell makes it to Number 44.
De la merde tout ca !!!!!!!!!
I think I would put Steve Jobs ahead of the man whose claim to fame was inventing the mouse..!
“Guys, Wozinak can’t come behind Meg Whitman, after Omidyar and Chambers”
what the hell is up with that? Whitman? seriously? that is just messed up……
@ Shen,
Yeah man, what did Whitman do… I think they wanted to put a woman there !!! If they really wanted do so, then they should have strech the scope of this to include Radioactivity among other things !!! Then Marie Curie would have made the top 5 list !!!
where is Thomas Edison ?
Where’s Ballmer??? He’s developed the most efficient chair-throwing algorithms yet!
Congrats to the Steves. The Google guys are way too high.
This panel has a pretty short memory or a very narrowly defined view of a “technologist”. Or maybe it’s just computer geeks stroking each other. I’d say harnessing the power of nuclear fission back in the 30’s & 40’s was a pretty neat trick of technology. How about a nod to J. Robert Oppenheimer who headed up the Manhattan Project?
“where is Thomas Edison ?”
Or Nikola Tesla.
That is the worst list I’ve ever seen.
Google and Intel near the top? Give me a break.
Where is Thomas Edison on the list?
Intel near the top?
Intel paid for the list – of course they get some top slots!
I have a list. It’s also rubbish.
+1 on the comment that it’s the worst list ever.
Google founders at 2 and 3?? And no Tesla, Edison, Curie, Oppenheimer, Goddard, Van Braun, Marconi, Benz, Ford.
But they have room for Meg Whitman, Michael Dell and
Larry Ellison. Hah! What a joke.
Don Wills: I agree with you but in fairness, Marconi is #4.
Putting Bill Gates on that list is like putting John Dvorak on the Pulitzer list.
To say that this is a list of the 45 top technologists of the last 150 years is patently silly. It just shows that the panel of judges has a limited world view and an even more limited understanding of history. Stupid, stupid list.
What about the guy at 3M who invented Sticky Notes???
Did someone say Engelbert?
What about the guy (or girl) who invented the preservative?
Of course Woz is number “42”…
No one else could be…
What a chunk of worthless crap, and a waste of money by intel. There are many worthwhile charities and causes around the world where the money would have help instead of being wasted.
The man who is changing the world with gadgets has to be higher than 14. What morons these guys are for failing to recognize the guy with a phone in one hand and a really neat tunes player in the other is not the Master of the Universe.
The Google brothers are two of the top three technologists of the past 150 YEARS? That’s ridiculous!
Where is Jackson Pelluci, inventor of the Framis 300?!
I’m not sure what their narrow definition of technology is, but they sure as heck left out whole industries of planet changing technology: commercial aviation, automobile assembly, nuclear energy, the harnessing of electricity, and whoever invented indoor plumbing, god bless them.
“Of course Woz is number ’42’… No one else could be…”
Great post! The Apple IIe was way cooler than Deep Though could ever hope to be.
HAHAHAHA, Billy #31.
Classic – and so hard to believe as EVERYONE is using a Zune!
150 Years. There’s a list of at least 50 people who made more important inventions. Most people on this list are only building on top of those breakthroughs and pioneering efforts.
Where’s Ford, Edison, Benz,Tesla, Woodward, Edison, etc. ?
And: Whitman? I thought we were talking about technologists?
Ada Lovelace vs. Meg Whitman, which one stays if one has to go
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Ada Lovelace could kick Meg’s ass.
Wozniak Nomber 42???!!! No I can’t take, it. The guy really innovated.
Agreed. Developing both a personal computer and floppy disk controller “that couldn’t be done” earn him a much higher rank.
The Google brothers are two of the top three technologists of the past 150 YEARS? That’s ridiculous!
They’re at the top because Google is a current tech darling. Let’s see where they rank 10 years from now.
It’s the same thought process that got Teddy Roosevelt on Mount Rushmore. He wasn’t a BAD present, but to be given a permanent place among the greats…??
This list is sooo Stooopid. Philo Farnsworth ranks neer the bottom.WTF!?The man invented the TV. Perhaps the most important invention since the printing press. Think about using your mac without a monitor. Opps where did that GUI go. And where’s Tesla, the man who invented wireless transmission via radiowaves. He also spent many years trying to transmit power Wirelessly. A century and a half later we are still trying. It’s almost certain that if he had lived a little longer he would have acomplished it.He was perhaps the greatest TECHNOLOGIST ever.