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These individuals must be close to the nuts and bolts of what they or their companies do.
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Linus Torvalds, father of Linux |
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Bill Gates, chairman and chief software architect, Microsoft |
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Jonathan Ive, VP of industrial design, Apple |
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Sven Jaschan, virus writer |
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Ian Foster, academic and grid computing guru |
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Joe McGeehan, academic and wireless pioneer |
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Donald E Knuth, professor emeritus of The Art of Computer Programming at Stanford University |
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Jon Rubinstein, senior VP, Apple iPod division |
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Mark J Cox, senior director of engineering, Red Hat |
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