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Gates, Bill

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Grace Hopper

Formal name:	Grace Murray Hopper
Date of birth:	December 9, 1906 New York City, USA
Date of death:	January 1, 1992
Contributions:	Erroneously credited as coining the term: "bug". Extended the meaning of debug.
Quotes:	"Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, 'We've always done it this way.' I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise."
Other:	Awarded the National Medal of Technology in 1991. The first woman to return to active duty after the United States Navy was unable to develop a working payroll plan after 823 attempts. Grace Hopper was recalled from retirement in order to help standardize the high-level Naval computer languages.

Gordon Moore

Formal name:	Gordon E. Moore
Date of birth:	January 3, 1929 San Francisco, California, USA
Contributions:	Helped start Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957. Co-founded Intel with Robert Noyce in 1968. Made an observation in 1965, that later became widely known as Moore's Law.
Other:	Eugene Kleiner, Gordon Moore, Jerry Sanders, Robert Noyce

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