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Bush wrote an article in 1945 describing a machine that would catalog and store information based on associative links rather than a linear progression. He theorized that such a machine would provide information in the best way for humans to access it. His article had a strong effect on the thinking of a young Doug Engelbart.
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Steve Case |
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Founder and Chairman of America Online (Previously Quantum Computer Service)
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Vint Cerf |
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Coinventor of the TCP/IP Internet protocol; cofounder in 1986 of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives; senior vice president of Internet Architecture and Engineering, MCI Communications Corporation; president of the Internet Society, 1992-95; winner of the U.S. National Medal of Technology award in 1997; while UCLA graduate student was present at the creation of ARPAnet.
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Jim Clark |
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Founder of Silicon Graphics, cofounder of Netscape Communications Corporation, former Stanford professor.
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