Bill Gates scores low in “influential techie” hall of fame
A PANEL of luminaries [shorely loonies, Ed?] have contributed to create a list of technology’s most influential technologists, said Intel.
While the list was headed by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Bill Gates came 31st in the pecking order.
Brit Guglielmo Marconi came fourth and sandwiched between Berners-Lee and Marconi were S. Brin and L. Page, otherwise known as the Goody Two Shoes.
Sean Maloney, VP of Intel, said: “It’s fitting that the people who have influenced the Internet turn up in the top three of the list.”
The original list included Richard Branson and Trevor Bayliss who were unceremoniously dumped in favour Dennis Ritchie, creator of the C language; Don Estridge, in charge of developing the PC for Big Glue, and Jack Gilby, inventor the microchip.
The full list of runners and riders is below. Even Scotsman John Logie Baird beat Gates, coming in at number 26.
1. Tim Berners-Lee
2. Sergey Brin
3. Larry Page
4. Guglielmo Marconi
5. Jack Kilby
6. Gordon Moore
7. Alan Turing
8. Robert Noyce
9. William Shockley
10. Don Estridge
11. Doug Engelbert
12. Robert Metcalfe
13. Vint Cerf
14. Steve Jobs
15. Andrew Grove
16. Seymour Cray
17. Pierre Omidyar
18. Shawn Fanning
19. Dennis Ritchie
20. Ted Hoff
21. Linus Torvalds
22. Shuji Nakamura
23. Dave Packard
24. Jean Hoerni
25. William Hewlett
26. John Logie Baird
27. George Boole
28. Martin Cooper
29. John Pinkerton
30. Grace Hopper
31. Bill Gates
32. Herman Hollerith
33. Thomas Watson
34. Jeff Bezos
35. Meg Whitman
36. Ada Lovelace
37. Nolan Bushnell
38. Claude Shannon
39. Charles Babbage
40. John Chambers
41. Philo Farnsworth
42. Steve Wozniak
43. Larry Ellison
44. Michael Dell
45. Maurice Wilkes
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So What happened to Paul Allen then.... 


Any more 5th Beatles out there folks?
Hi, Well,they forgot one big,big name: Nikola Tesla. If you do not know who it is check on Wiki. By the way he was inventer of radio and not Marconi. That and many other things. If I tell you that on his death in New York, his appartement was seized by FBI and everything taken to certain area ....
Bill Gates gives a rat's ass about these lists. and neway 70% of the voters possibly dint vote for bill gates who think they will look uncool or will be betrayers of their open sauce creed.
What are they doing on this list? All they've ever done is take other people's ideas and wrap adverts around them.
Funny how "Mr Marketing" Steve Jobs gets in so high up on a list of technical achievers when Wozniak, the real Apple techie is so far down.

There's a few cases that can be argued on this list, but none as glaring as this.
... Jon Postel.

Come on! Jeez.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2468
No Richard Stallman???
You're kidding, right?
Born in Bologna, Italian senator, died in Italy, Irish mother, Italian father... 
The only link that would qualify him as a Brit is that he's a descendant of the emperor who made a province out of Blighty.
I am shocked and appalled by the lack of Konrad Zuse. The man, who among other feats built a turing machine before Turing.
Where is John Atanasoff

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Vincent_Atanasoff

forget ENIAC
WHO THE HELL ARE THESE PEOPLE?!?!?!

*punches them in the face*

~The Dude
They put Woz at 42 but Jobs at 15? I'm completely disgusted. Woz is what brought apple to amounting to anything, jobs just carried it back after he messed it all up. I hate apple in general myself, but Woz actually knew what he was doing, Jobs is just a prat.
There's no accounting for dis array.

The farmer in the Dell
The Vole takes the cheese
Hi-ho, the derry-o
The Vole takes the cheese

It drives me Ballmers, that.
I suggest that since those who make these lists up seem to be loonies, we make lists of those who make lists. I'm still reeling from learning that living in the US is apparently more dangerous and horrible that living on the surface of Venus. These uncontrolled listers are clearly a danger to us all, as well as having too damn much free time.
What happened to Nikola Tesla? One day...
I'd expected to see him in the top ten for sure.