Top ten nerds and geeks

TomThu 16 November, 2006 8:13pm

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombe

AnneMon 20 November, 2006 1:49pm

Where are the girls? Women like Ada Byron and ... No wait - ok no girls allowed in this tree hut.

Chris Stevens -- cnet.co.ukMon 20 November, 2006 2:43pm

Good point, Anne. I guess girls aren't traditionally described as "geeky". Ok, give us your nominations for top female geeks and we'll start compiling a new list.

AnonymousMon 20 November, 2006 3:32pm

Geek girl: how about Marie Curie? Among other things, first person to get two Nobels in science. Daughter a Nobel winner too.

Kresten KjaerMon 20 November, 2006 4:36pm

Why is Bill Gates on the list ? He isn't that geeky.. And after all, Paul Allen did most of the early programming work for Microsoft. And even he isn't geeky compared to the others.

Linux is used by some of the cnet services btw, netcraft confirms it.

Why is Leonardo da Vinci not on the list ?

Also for the women, Marie Curi is an elite geek. She is a nuklear scientist.
And also the danish (female) scientist who slowed down the speed of ligt to a few centimeters per second, could be mentioned.

Best regards Kresten Kjaer.

Jan LaugesenMon 20 November, 2006 8:44pm

A list of top ten female nerds must include the now late Admiral in the US Navy - Grace Hopper. She gave us the programming language Flowmatic which was the forerunner of the COBOL programming language.

AnonymousTue 21 November, 2006 1:17am

I think that Theo de Raadt (OpenBSD) & Richard Stallman perhaps should be on the list.. Oh and my friend Kloeri (Gentoo developer) he makes big geeks look like cool outgoing and sociale guys..

Thomas HaugaardTue 21 November, 2006 3:25pm

You forgot Kevin Mitnick.

Kai Harrekilde-PetersenTue 21 November, 2006 8:24pm

I'd say that the late Richard Feynman would be a worthy contender. Attendees at Feynman's first seminar included Albert Einstein, Wolfgang Pauli, and John von Neumann.

billhfoosWed 22 November, 2006 2:34pm

You left off Seymour Cray. Without his computers that he invented the world would be a very different place. We all stand on his shoulders today.

JohnTue 5 December, 2006 5:44pm

never mind all of that lot lets get contemporary and practical - have you heard of the work of Jason Edwards in County Durham? WOW

AnonymousThu 21 December, 2006 2:39pm

needs gates moved down, torvalds moved up closer to wozniak, stallman needs to be up with tovalds, and seymour cray needs to be on the list. list is too small needs to be bigger and community decided. wins for tesla being first fails for all the other reasons!

AnonymousThu 21 December, 2006 2:42pm

By the way, forget mitnick he is a crappy social engineer(he is a good social engineer though). I say put Poulsen on there instead.

AnonymousThu 21 December, 2006 5:11pm

where is Shannon? the father of information theory?

AnonymousThu 21 December, 2006 10:03pm

How could you leave off Erdos? See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erd%C5%91s for an idea of what I mean.

LeonardeThu 22 February, 2007 1:56pm

Several bad omissions in this list. Here are four people who all deserves the place at the top:

1) Blaise Pascal (invented the first "modern" calculator based on the decimal system)
2) Augusta Ada (the first real computer programmer, invented major concepts like loops, conditions and branching)
3) Donald Erwin Knuth (the man who systematised all fundamental algorithms in "The art of Computer Programming" book series. He invented the LALR parsing technique, i.e. the basis of all fast and efficient compilers. To typeset his own books, he went on to invent the very concepts of digital typography and literal programming, manifested as TeX & Metafont, Based on WEB (Tangle & Weave), an escalating and ongoing hack over 20 years)
4) Richard Stallman, programmer of EMACS, the real übernerd from the MIT AI Lab and godfather of GNU and the League of Programming Freedom, on which the Linux political train of thoughts comes (Linux was originally only one out of several free and open UNIX versions, and based on MINIX by Andrew Tannenbaum).

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AnonymousWed 22 August, 2007 10:23pm

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AshleySat 22 September, 2007 7:29pm

Wow this is totally awesome I'm a geek myself,There wouldnt be Macs if Steve hadnt invented,and computers wouldnt be useful if Ada Bryon didnt program them so they can work properly! Ashley

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AnonymousFri 21 December, 2007 9:20am

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KilkoiSat 22 December, 2007 7:19pm

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AnonymousMon 31 December, 2007 3:41am

If there were not those eccentrics that were imaginary at first glance impossible things, you, freak with primitive, limited mind, probably would live in cave without ELECTRICITY, plumbing, etc.
Science is the LAW!!! Die those who deride it!!!

AnonymousTue 1 January, 2008 5:16pm

The nickel cadmium battery, known as NiCad (pronounced "Nigh-Kad"), used to be the most common type of laptop battery.

AnonymousMon 14 January, 2008 5:53pm

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So they went home.

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AnonymousThu 10 April, 2008 11:59pm

I am the geekiest because I get straihgt A plusses.

AnonymousWed 30 April, 2008 4:08pm

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AnonymousTue 27 May, 2008 1:19am

I mean Age of Conan, of course )

AnonymousMon 23 June, 2008 10:37am

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AnonymousSat 12 July, 2008 7:32am

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AnonymousSat 12 July, 2008 11:08am

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AnonymousTue 22 July, 2008 10:53am

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