Tech people

>>58667697
nypa, faggot

>>58667717
Thanks for the bump faglord.

>>58667697
Grace Hopper. If we want women in tech to stop being cancer, we need to make her their messiah instead of shitheads like Meyer.

Dennis Ritchie for sure. Make sure to mention that he was much more important than jobs yet no one gave a fuck about his death.

>>58667697
this reddit founder dood who heroed himself after being charged for illegal downloads

>>58668584
best choice

>>58668555
also acceptable

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>forgetting uriel

richard stallman 03/04/2016

>>58668555
>Grace Hopper. If we want women in tech to stop being cancer,
Do it on whoever you want, deliberately choosing a woman is sexist and makes you part of the problem.

>>58668666
glad he is gone, gave argentina a bad name

>>58667697
Terry Davis

>>58668736
He's not dead

>>58668666
nice trips

>>58668666
I still don't understand why this faggot killed himself.

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Nice logo he had the madman

>>58668798
Depression probably

>>58668798
He realized that the most harmful software was himself

Edwin Howard Armstrong

electrical engineer, inventor of FM radio,
screwed out of royalties by the courts
jumped from a 12th story window

>>58668798

He was upset over the Falklands

>>58667697
Aaron Swartz

>>58669363
seconded

>>58668666
In his defense, anyone claiming to be a "philosopher and entrepreneur" should be fucking dead.

>>58669216
This man so much.

>>58668628
His name was Aaron Swartz and he was kind of a big deal.

>>58668666
When did this happen, Satan?

Also, to OP, obviously Aaron Swartz

>>58670724
i know i watched the documentary, just couldn't remember his name

You could write about Hans Reiser's murdered wife.

Josef Mengele

His research was a major breakthrough for medical technology. He was one of the few SS that were neither captured nor committed suicide.

>>58668722
The word "sexist" itself is more cancerous than anything any person of any gender has ever done to the tech industry.

Whenever anyone uses this word, the actual conversation dies because now everyone is too focused on how "#triggered xD" everyone else is to get anything productive done.

Incidentally, I second Grace Hopper just because of how fucking badass that woman was. I want her on US currency.

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>>58667697

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shockley

William Bradford Shockley Jr. (/ˈʃɑːkli/; February 13, 1910 – August 12, 1989) was an American physicist and inventor. Shockley was the manager of a research group that included John Bardeen and Walter Brattain. The three scientists invented the point-contact transistor in 1947 and were jointly awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Shockley's attempts to commercialize a new transistor design in the 1950s and 1960s led to California's "Silicon Valley" becoming a hotbed of electronics innovation. In his later life, Shockley was a professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University and became a proponent of eugenics.[1][2]

>Not Alan Turing

Ada Lovelace. You can angle the essay however you want, too, from "she did cool things and there's a programming language named after her!" to full-on, "muh straight white males stole her ideas because they are inferior to a strong black woman who don't need no man".

schwartz would be interesting but it would probably be pretty difficult to write impartially.

>>58671196
turing would be a good option. loads of information

also not CS but Hugh Everett III could be interesting

aaron swartz is a nice choice.
Turing could also work, although he was a faggot I think.

>>58668798
have you ever had to use debian??

>>58667697
Steve Jobs.

>>58671161
Shockley was an asshole. His only claim to silicon valley was being so much of an asshole that the team he hired to work with him all quit and started up on their own.

>>58674472
Honestly that sounds like it would be a fun paper to write. "Shockley - Portrait of an Asshole".

>>58669363
Was he the hacker who cracked pdf or something and was persecuted by a DA until he anherod?

If not then that guy who was, is my vote.

>>58672388

Had to use? I -got- to use Debian. It was sweet.

Then NSA/systemd happened and hardware failed to init.

Upgraded to Devuan and everything is sweet again. . .

>>58667697
Aaron Swartz

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>>58671293
>Ada Lovelace
>stronk black wymmyn
u wot m8?

Also the whole "first computer programmer" is a bit disputable. What she did was to get that title was write algorithms for Babbage's Analytical Engine, a machine that existed only on paper; its construction was never completed.

Also, algorithms were written and used well before that. In fact, the word "algorithm" comes from the 8th century Persian mathematician Al-Kwarizmi, whose name was translated as Algoritmi in Latin.

>>58667697
What is the criteria of the people you should write about?
If you want a more exciting paper, write about Seth Rich
He didn't influence technology in any way, but he leaked some emails, which then sparked a national debate about hacking and his death impacted the US election.

It is controversial, it is new and it will be more fun to write about than whatever you were supposed to write about.

>>58676926
Babbage's machine did work once a copy made from the design was created.