Submitted by The BBC has interviewed Vint Cerf. “Vint Cerf is known as one of the founder fathers of the internet and played a key role in the development of the protocols which underpin the global net. He was a founding member of the Internet Society and is Google’s Chief Internet Evangelist.”
Is there a ‘founding father’ of some kind of computer related technology that isn’t employed by Google?
Yep. Look at a bunch of folks that work at Sun, like James Gosling. The engineers that work at nVidia are great examples too.
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Here’s a revised version of the question:
Is there a computer related technology with none of it’s founders employed by Google?
PS. Anyone who refers to Al Gore in this thread will be instantly banned from Bbbzzzaassshhhhhh…. SIGNAL LOST
…and my answer remains the same.
Look at the inventors of the transistor, ethernet, 3d technology, etc.
Charles Babbage wasn’t employed by Google, nor Alan Turing
– of course when Google Time Machine is invented…
Yes, plenty.
Statements like that are almost always infamously short sighted. But in this case, it seems like an exaggerated understatement.
My rough math suggests there will be 6.7E23 addresses per square meter of the earth’s surface. We could even reserve a good portion of the total for the Moon, Mars and elsewhere.
I’ve noticed a trend. With IPv6, 64 bit filesystems, and 48 bit memory addressing (expandable to 64 bit), the industry has finally gotten past its earlier “let’s implement this hack to add 4 bits and increase the maximum by a factor of 16” roots.
Hard to believe it took so many decades for us to figure out that resources, and resource requirements, are increasing in a geometric fashion. 😉