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11 Who Died in 2011 (And Were Not Named Steve)

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wired.com; By Robert McMillan 		Mail this story
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This article is not about Steve Jobs. He died this year -- yes, we all know that -- but gone too is Dennis Ritchie, one of the creators of the Unix operating system that powers Apple's computers. Also departed are Jack Goldman, the man who came up with the idea to start Xerox PARC, where Jobs got his graphical user interface, Paul Baran, an important Internet pioneer who developed packet switching, and Nobutoshi Kihara, who was known as Sony's "Mr. Walkman," long before Jobs was flogging the iPod.

So here are 11 technology giants who left us this year, and the amazing legacies they left behind.

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Comments (2)

beirwin ·
I really enjoyed this. It's a reminder that we stand on the shoulders of giants. Without sharing, we're hosed.
skelband ·
A ton of names in that list, to my shame, I did not know.

What strikes me is that more and more we are finding out about the unsung women in the history of computing. I guess it wasn't that fashionable to make a big deal about it at the time. Thankfully we know better now.

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