Who are the five computer celebrities?

Who is the richest man in the world now? Bill, president of Microsoft in the United States? Gates, 1999, has a personal asset of over $90 billion. In just over 20 years, he has created more wealth than the traditional car king, oil king, steel king or financial oligarch in 200 years. At present, such family wealth is generally around $20 billion.

Bill? Gates195510/kloc-0 was born in an ordinary family in Seattle on October 28th. His father is a lawyer and his mother is a teacher. Bill? Gates developed a software with the computer of Harvard University and made a lot of money. For this reason, he was severely criticized by the school and warned not to do it again, because the school thought that Bill? Gates violated the university spirit, that is, the teaching facilities of public education should not be used for profit. 1975 May, Bill? Gates had the idea of dropping out of school. He hopes to start a software company with his good friend Allen. Due to the strong opposition of parents, Bill? Gates failed to drop out of school immediately. However, he left Seattle for Apache. 1In July, 975, the company was established in cooperation with Allen. When Microsoft was founded, Bill? Gates is exactly 20 years old.

Microsoft is a company with less fixed assets and less inventory of raw materials. Its annual sales revenue is less than $20 billion, but its asset value is as high as $500 billion.

Linus Benedict Thorvald

Linus Benedict Torval grew up in Helsinki and is a Swedish Finn.

Linus currently lives in California and works for a non-Linux company. Linus likes drinking beer. He likes a lifelike little penguin (a symbol of Linux) and his clever baby daughter.

Linus's greatest achievement is not that he wrote the kernel of Linux, but that he made it public. 199 1 year, as a computer major student, Linus developed a small UNIX-like operating system and published its source code. He also looked for programmers to develop the system on the Internet, and finally named it Linux.

The origin of the matter is this: in order to learn to use Minix (a simple UNIX operating system that can run on 8086 and later support 80386, which is very popular on some PC platforms) developed by the famous computer scientist Andrew S.Tanenbaun, Linux bought a 486 microcomputer, but he found that the function of Minix was not perfect enough, so he decided to write a protected mode operating system, namely Linux. The original Linux was written in assembly language, mainly used to deal with 80386 protection mode. 19911On October 5th, Linus released the first "official" version of Linux, namely version 0.02.

Jeff. Jeffrey Bezos

This year, 65438+ 10/2 is Jeff, founder and president of Amazon. Bezos' 35th birthday. The descendant of Cuban immigrants, with superhuman courage and keen vision, made Amazon the largest online bookstore in the world from scratch in just three years. The company's stock has increased 20 times in more than a year, and its total market value is 8 times higher than that of Ponno Bookstore, the largest in the United States with more than 1 000 branches. And he became bill himself? The Gates-style new generation of American super-rich worth billions of dollars has created another "American myth".

Jeff. Bezos was a creative person since he was a child. After work, with strong work enthusiasm and innovative spirit, Bezos quickly became the vice president of an investment fund on Wall Street, responsible for investing in network technology companies. 1994, Bezos, deeply aware of the great opportunities in the online market, unexpectedly gave up this excellent job and came to Seattle. 1In July, 995, he set up an online book sales company-Amazon, which has the same name as the river with the largest flow in the world.

In the early days of starting a business, the conditions were very difficult. He meets suppliers or job seekers in the coffee shop of the nearby Ponno Bookstore every day. Three years later, with the rapid rise of Amazon's share price, Bezos became a billionaire. However, he is soberly aware that these wealth may be wiped out overnight. He still drives an old Nissan Honda, and he still keeps the same efforts as when he started his business.

Network technology has rapidly expanded new companies like Amazon. Amazon, which has been recognized by users, has become the largest store in cyberspace, with 4.5 million customers, and its sales of 1998 are expected to increase from1480 thousand dollars in the previous year to 540 million dollars.

1May, 1997, the newly listed shares of the company were only worth $9 per share, but in1October, 1998/kloc-0, the company's shares once rose to $209 per share, an increase of 23 times. All this happened at a time when Amazon was losing millions of dollars every year and was not expected to make a profit until 200 1 year. This is because people believe that the online market has unlimited potential and that Amazon has taken the lead in occupying a place in the online market. Jeff. Bezos is called the father of e-commerce.

Negroponte (Negroponte)

Negroponte is a professor at MIT, the founder of the Media Lab and a columnist for Wired magazine. Western media praised him as one of the most influential masters in the field of computer and communication technology. 1996 was listed as one of the most important futurists in the contemporary era by Time magazine in July.

His "Digital Survival" describes the impact of digital technology on our life, work, education and entertainment, as well as issues worth pondering. It is the best guide to enter the new digital world. The English version of this book once topped the best seller list in The New York Times.

Michael dell (michael dell)

Mike. Dale studied at the University of Texas at Austin and dropped out at the age of 19. 1984, Mike? Dell established the Dell Company with a value of $65,438+0,000 and an unprecedented concept in the personal computer industry, that is, avoiding middlemen who add less value to products and selling customized personal computers directly to end users. Through this innovative direct ordering method and the first service and support scheme in the industry, Dell has become one of the top PC suppliers in the world, the leading direct ordering company for computers and the fastest growing major computer system company in the world. Dell's leading position on the Internet has brought the latest global revolution. It is recognized as the largest online supplier of computer systems, with daily online sales of $30 million. Mike. As a result, Dell became the youngest CEO, with personal assets of $265,438+$49 million.