Each of these technologists has been the driving force behind a groundbreaking technology integral to today's IT Ravi Arimilli: IBM’s patent leader, Power4 chip Gordon Bell: PDP minicomputer and the VAX Computing Environment Grady Booch: Design methodology called the Booch Method Tim Bray and the XML Working Group: XML Dan Bricklin: VisiCalc Vint Cerf: The TCP/IP protocol and key architect of the Internet and ARPAnet Edgar Codd and Chris Date: The relational database management system Martin Cooper: portable cell phone Dave Cutler: DEC’s VMS and Windows NT James Gosling: Java Arvel Hathcock: Alt-n-Technologies MDaemon Anders Hejlsberg: C# Hedy Lamarr: Patent for spread-spectrum communication technology Abraham Lempel and Jacob Ziv: The Lempel-Ziv algorithm Bob Metcalfe: Ethernet Nathan Myhrvold: Windows NT Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore: The technology brains behind Intel and Moore’s Law Ray Ozzie: Lotus Notes and Groove Networks Richard Stallman: The GNU Project Bjarne Stroustrup: C++ Linus Torvalds: Linux Software Development