I assumed Alan Kay was going to be in the list, somewhere in the top 3. After all, the mac UI concept (and hence Windows) could be traced back to him. He inve

I assumed Alan Kay was going to be in the list, somewhere in the top 3. After all, the mac UI concept (and hence Windows) could be traced back to him. He invented OO, and Smalltalk is still in use and his free IDE Squeak has produced one of the most amazing web technologies (Seaside). (One can even argue that Java is an attempt to combine Smalltalk with C++. ) Kay is also one of the principal leads of the Croquet project (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croquet_Project http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croquet_Project), pushing the concept of networking into a new dimension. Oh, and we could also trace the whole concept of laptops/netbooks to Kay's dynabook. I think most of the people in that list should be embarrassed that Kay was not listed way above them.