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13Ralph Szygenda SERGEY BRIN & LARRY PAGE 31Jeff Hawkins
General Motors GM CIO is driving Numenta Founder of Palm
best practices standards across By David F. Carr and inventor of the Treo; now
the IT community. Google’s founders, sergey brin and larry page, researching the nexus of neuro- 14 made Ziff Davis Media’s Top 100 Most Influential science and computing. Rollin Ford People in IT list for inventing technologies that Wal-Mart Helped streamline the rewrote expectations for Internet search engines and 32John G. Grimes
retail giant’s supply chain through then building outward to establish a growing suite U.S. Department of Defense CIO
IT. of complementary applications that reinvented other of the DOD is driving the DOD’s
15categories, including “net-centricity” IT doctrine.
Rick Dalzell e-mail and mapping.
Amazon.com Shopping site CIO is In the process, 33Mark Shuttleworth
setting up Amazon as a software/ they’ve built Google Ubuntu Head of Ubuntu, which
hardware host. into one of the indus- has quickly become one of the
16try’s most powerful best and most popular Linux
Dr. Alan Kay companies and made distros.
Viewpoints Research Institute
Co-founder of Xerox PARC, still themselves rich in the
process. They ranked 12th and 13th, respectively, on Forbes 34Brian Behlendorf
active in the One Laptop Per Child magazine’s most recent list of the 400 richest Americans, Apache One of the founders of
initiative. both with a net worth of more than $14 billion. the Apache Group, creator of the
17The Google search engine began as a research project Web’s most popular and durable
Tim O’Reilly
while Brin and Page were doctoral students at Stanford Web server software.
O’Reilly Media Thought leader,
influential technology publisher University. While studying the link structure of the Web, Page came up with the PageRank algorithm for 35Chris De Wolfe and event leader. & Tom Anderson
18using the number of links pointing to a given page as MySpace Didn’t invent social net-
Paul Otellini a measure of its importance. Brin lent his expertise working, but they perfected it with
Intel President and CEO spurred in data mining, and together they built a distributed MySpace, which now has more
Intel to improve PC performance computing infrastructure to support indexing millions than 150 million users.
and efficiency. of Web pages. Originally, they tried to license their soft-
19ware to an established Web operation such as Yahoo but
Jonathan Schwartz got no takers. So they founded Google in 1998. ´ 36H. D. Moore
Metasploit Director of security
Sun Microsystems Successor research at BreakingPoint is
to Scott McNealy; not afraid to David F. Carr is technology editor at Baseline magazine. rewriting the rules on flaw dis-
shake things up in leading Sun to closure.
a software focus.
20Vinton Cerf 24Mark Hurd 28Jimmy Wales 37Alan Paller
SANS Institute Director of
Google Co-inventor (with Bob Hewlett-Packard Chairman/CEO/ Wikipedia Revolutionized online research and a major voice in
Kahn) of TCP/IP, now VP and chief president turned company around research with Web-based ency- computer security.
Internet evangelist at Google. after Carly Fiorina was ousted. clopedia, now the de facto online
21information resource.
Rick Rashid 25Meg Whitman 38Edward Felten
Princeton University Professor
Microsoft Senior vice president eBay Helping people buy and of Computer Science and Public
for research at Microsoft sets sell online with unsurpassed Affairs helps set public IT policy. the course for a $6 billion R& D efficiency. 29John Doerr Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & budget. 26Tim Bray Byers High-powered venture capi- 39Greg Papadopoulos 22Mark Russinovich Sun Microsystems CTO of Sun Sun Microsystems Director of talist helped fund Netscape, Sun, spurs innovative processor and Microsoft Technical fellow is a Web technologies helped develop Google, Amazon and others. server designs.
leader in operating system design the XML and Atom standards.
and architecture. 40Bruce Schneier 23 Phil Hester Lawrence Lessig Eric Schmidt 27 30 BT Counterpane A leading expert Advanced Micro Devices Senior Stanford University Law profes- on applied cryptography and
Google Former Bell Labs, Novell vice president and CTO’s innova- sor and copyright reform fighter; a voice for common sense in
and Sun exec corralled Google tive processor designs helped cut was Special Master in the U.S. v. security policy.
into an e-commerce machine. into Intel’s dominance. Microsoft case. [CONTINUED ON PAGE 20]
