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Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 1

Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 1
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Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 1

Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 1

Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 1 – Perl Creator

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#100 Larry Wall – Programmer Creator of Perl, one of the most common scripting languages.


Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 1 – SEI Leader

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#99 Paul D. Nielsen – SEI Head of the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon, home of CERT, the security research program.


Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 1 – I-mode Innovator

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#98 Takeshi Natsuno – NTT Created the content side of i-mode, Japans successful service for connecting to the Internet via cell phones.


Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 1 – Linux Guide

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#97 Kevin Carmony – Linspire/Freespire Guiding Linux distribution to be among the most popular on the desktop.


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Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 1 – Business Management Writer

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#96 Jim Collins – Author Good to Great and Built to Last are modern classic business management texts.


Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 1 – Open-Source Booster

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#95 Doc Searls – Linux Journal Leading proponent for open-source software and editor in chief of Linux Journal.


Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 1 – IT Advocate

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#94 Erik Brynjolfsson – MIT Center for Digital Business Among the first to measure the productivity contributions of IT.


Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 1 – Python Creator

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#93 Guido van Rossum – Google Creator of the Python language.


Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 1 – GPL 3 Leader

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#92 Eben Moglen – Free Software Foundation, Software Freedom Law Center Expert on open-source law and one of the guiding lights of GPL 3.


Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 1 – Does IT Matter?

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#91 Nick Carr – Author Asked the famous question Does IT Matter? and argued that IT will become a utility service along the lines of electricity and water.


Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 1 – Juniper Founder

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#90 Pradeep Sindhu – Juniper Networks Juniper founder also was a principal scientist and distinguished engineer at the Computer Science Lab at Xeroxs Palo Alto Research Center (PARC).


Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 1 – IT Matters

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#89 Carl Wilson – Marriott Marriott CIO sees IT as a competitive advantage. There will be no IT projects, he said. There are only business initiatives that are enabled and shaped by information technology.


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Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 1 – GE CIO

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#88 Gary Reiner – General Electric Gary Reiner is both the CIO and head of strategy for GE.


Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 1 – Blog Pioneer

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#87 Dave Winer – Programmer, blogger Blog and podcasting pioneer and driver of the RSS protocol that is widely regarded as a major underpinning of Web 2.0.


Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 1 – IT Researcher

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#86 Peter Weill – MIT Center for Information Systems Research Directs the most influential IT academic research center; his research has established the connection between business strategy and IT architecture.


Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 1 – Ruby Tuesday CIO

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#85 Nick Ibrahim – Ruby Tuesdays Ruby Tuesdays CIO drives consistency in IT across the value chain, leading to better analysis, decisions and results.


Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 1 – Venture Capitalist

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#84 Vinod Khosla – Khosla Ventures High-powered venture capitalist with a background in leading-edge technology.


Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 1 – Automation Evangelist

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#83 Adam Kolawa – Parasoft CEO and evangelist for automated approaches to software correctness.


Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 1 – Encryption Campaigner

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#82 Rob Portman – Office of Management and Budget OMB Director pushing for encryption on federal PCs.


Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 1 – Telco Policy Shaper

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#81 Edward J. Markey – U.S. House of Representatives (D-Mass.) Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet; major shaper of telco policy.


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Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 1 – NetHope Chairman

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#80 Edward Granger-Happ – Save the Children Foundation CTO; chairman of NetHope, which is creating technology for relief workers and natural disaster victims.


Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 1 – Information Management Expert

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#79 Thomas Davenport – Babson College Professor of Information Technology and Management and author of many influential books on re-engineering, knowledge management and information management.


Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 1 – RightSourcing Proponent

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#78 B. Ramalinga Raju – Satyam Founder and chairman of the fast-growing India outsourcer and a proponent of RightSourcing.


Top 100 Most Influential People in IT, Part 1 – C# Lead Architect

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#77 Anders Hejlsberg – Microsoft Led development team for Borlands Delphi and currently the lead architect for Microsofts C#.

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