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Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace was an English mathematician and writer chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine, and celebrated as the world's first computer programmer.

Alan Turing was an English mathematician, logician, and cryptanalyst who formulated the theoretical foundation of modern computer science, broke the Enigma cipher at Bletchley Park, and pioneered artificial intelligence.

Andrej Karpathy is a Slovak-Canadian AI researcher, who co-founded and formerly worked at OpenAI, where he specialized in deep learning and computer vision. He also worked as the director of artificial intelligence and Autopilot Vision at Tesla, and in 2024 he founded Eureka Labs, an AI education platform. In 2026 he joined Anthropic as part of the pretraining team.

Bill Gates is an American business magnate, software pioneer, and philanthropist who co-founded Microsoft Corporation and helped launch the personal computer revolution.

Sir Demis Hassabis is a British computer scientist, AI researcher, and Nobel laureate in Chemistry (2024). He is the co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, leading breakthroughs including AlphaFold and AlphaGo.

Elon Reeve Musk is a businessman and former public official who is the CEO and largest shareholder of Tesla and SpaceX. Musk has been the wealthiest person in the world since 2025, and briefly became the only trillionaire in June 2026; as of August 14, 2026, Forbes estimates his net worth to be US$864 billion.

Fei-Fei Li is an American computer scientist, Stanford University professor, and co-director of the Stanford Human-Centered AI Institute. She created ImageNet, which catalyzed the deep learning revolution in computer vision.

Geoffrey Hinton is a British-Canadian computer scientist and cognitive psychologist, often referred to as the 'Godfather of Deep Learning'. He received the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics and the 2018 Turing Award for foundational work on neural networks.

Jen-Hsun "Jensen" Huang is a Taiwanese and American business executive and electrical engineer who is the founder, president, and CEO of Nvidia, the world's most valuable company. As of 2026, Forbes estimates his net worth at over US$200 billion, making him the seventh-wealthiest individual in the world.

Lawrence Edward Page is an American businessman and computer scientist who co-founded Google with Sergey Brin. Page is a centibillionaire and among the richest people in the world. As of 2026, Bloomberg Billionaires Index and Forbes estimated his net worth at US$334.1 billion, positioning him as the second-wealthiest individual in the world.

Linus Torvalds is a Finnish-American software engineer who created the Linux operating system kernel in 1991 and the Git distributed version control system in 2005.

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is an American businessman and programmer who co-founded the social media service Facebook and its parent company Meta Platforms. He is its chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), and controlling shareholder.

Samuel Harris Altman is an American entrepreneur and investor who has been the chief executive officer (CEO) of the artificial intelligence company OpenAI since 2019.

Satya Narayana Nadella is an Indian-American business executive. He is the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Microsoft, succeeding Steve Ballmer in 2014 as CEO and John W. Thompson in 2021 as chairman. Before becoming CEO, he was the executive vice president of Microsoft's cloud and enterprise group, responsible for building and running the company's computing platforms.

Sergey Mikhailovich Brin is an American computer scientist and businessman who co-founded Google with Larry Page. He was the president of Google's parent company, Alphabet Inc., until stepping down from the role in 2019. He and Page remain at Alphabet as co-founders, controlling shareholders, and board members. Brin is a centibillionaire and among the richest people in the world; as of August 2026, his estimated net worth is US$264.9 billion.

Steve Jobs was an American business magnate, industrial designer, and visionary investor who co-founded Apple Inc. and transformed personal computing, animated movies, music, and mobile communications.

Pichai Sundararajan, better known as Sundar Pichai, is an Indian–American business executive who has been the CEO of Google since 2015 and the CEO of its parent company Alphabet Inc. since 2019.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee is an English computer scientist and Turing Award laureate who invented the World Wide Web in 1989 at CERN, establishing HTML, HTTP, and URLs as open public protocols.

Timothy Donald Cook is an American business executive who has served as the chief executive officer (CEO) of Apple since 2011. He had previously been the company's chief operating officer under its co-founder Steve Jobs. Cook joined Apple in March 1998 as a senior vice president for worldwide operations, and then as vice president for worldwide sales and operations. He was appointed chief executive of Apple on August 24, 2011, after Jobs resigned.

Yann LeCun is a French-American computer scientist, VP and Chief AI Scientist at Meta, and professor at NYU. He pioneered Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and received the 2018 Turing Award.