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Michael A. Jackson (born 1936) software engineering methodologist responsible for JSP method of program design; JSD method of system development (with John Cameron); and Problem Frames approach for analysing and structuring software development problems. Richard Stallman, created the GNU system utilities and championed free software.
Earth's orbit (Sidereal year): The Hindu cosmological time cycles explained in the Surya Siddhanta (c.600 CE), give the average length of the sidereal year (the length of the Earth's revolution around the Sun) as 365.2563627 days, which is only a negligible 1.4 seconds longer than the modern value of 365.256363004 days. [238] [failed ...
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Inventor of the Forth programming language. 2008 Nakamoto, Satoshi: The anonymous creator or creators of Bitcoin, the first peer-to-peer digital currency. Nakamoto's 2008 white-paper introduced the concept of the blockchain, a database structure that allows full trust in the decentralized and distributed public transaction ledger of the ...
Angie Jones – software engineer and automation architect. Holds 26 patented inventions in the United States of America and Japan; Cliff Jones – Vienna Development Method (VDM) Michael I. Jordan; Mathai Joseph; Aravind K. Joshi; Bill Joy (born 1954) – Sun Microsystems, BSD UNIX, vi, csh; Dan Jurafsky – natural language processing
Timeline of Indian innovation encompasses key events in the history of technology in the subcontinent historically referred to as India and the modern Indian state.. The entries in this timeline fall into the following categories: architecture, astronomy, cartography, metallurgy, logic, mathematics, metrology, mineralogy, automobile engineering, information technology, communications, space ...
The first modern theory of software was proposed by Alan Turing in his 1935 essay Computable numbers with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem (decision problem). [4] This eventually led to the creation of the twin academic fields of computer science and software engineering, which both study software and its creation. Computer science is ...
Steve Jobs (1955–2011), U.S. – Apple Macintosh computer, iPod, iPhone, iPad and other devices, software operating systems and applications. Amos Edward Joel Jr. (1918–2008) U.S. – electrical engineer, known for several contributions and over seventy patents related to telecommunications switching systems