Category: Internet and Computer Science

Liam Fitzgerald is a special kid. Nine year old Liam was diagnosed with Down syndrome when he was born. He lives with his parents and his half-brother. He is huge fan of ice hockey, and …

The rise of internet search engine DuckDuckGo has been warmly welcomed by the web-searchers who don’t want to be profiled or their search behavior or personal information to be tracked (as Google and other search …

Buddhify 2 is a meditation app that guides you to practice meditation and mindfulness in different everyday situations – travelling, feeling stressed at work, working online or home alone doing nothing. Though it is hard …

Snapchat is a photo messaging mobile application where users can snap photos, record videos and then send to their friend list along with written text and drawings. However, what makes it different from other similar …

Google’s senior vice president and software engineer Amit Singhal is one of the most honorable and accomplished engineers who has been leading Google’s core ranking team since 2000. In silicon valley, he is popularly known …

February 12, 1921 – April 20, 2006 Kathleen McNulty Mauchly Antonelli was one of the six original programmers of the first general-purpose electronic digital computer – ENIAC, which was primarily developed to calculate artillery firing …

December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992 In the early 20th century, some women strived hard to ensure women’s equal participation and contribution in the fields of science and engineering. In a male dominated society. …

San Francisco based GitHub Inc. is a social network for programmers, developed on Ruby on Rails and Erlang in 2008 by developers Tom Preston-Werner, Chris Wanstrath, and P.J. Hyett to simplify sharing code. GitHub offers …

Swedish internet entrepreneur Niklas Zennström is known for co-founding several highly successful online startups along with tech-entrepreneur Janus Friis. Together they founded Skype, a peer-to-peer telephony application and Kazaa, a peer-to-peer file sharing application. His …

“My entire life I wanted to be an engineer … I was trying to figure out: What is the most fun thing to do in life? And I decided that it would be to build …

Open-source software programmer Dries Buytaert is among a handful of innovative and promising tech entrepreneurs who have revolutionized the tech world with their creative ideas. He is best known as the creator of Drupal (an …

“You have to be very nimble and very open minded. Your success is going to be very dependent on how you adapt.” Jeremy Stoppelman Jeremy Stoppelman co-founded San Francisco-based Internet Company Yelp Inc. in 2004 …