Seven Tech visionaries: The Web, wireless and code-breaking

With the recent death of Steve Jobs, we turn our thoughts to some of the visionaries who have revolutionised the world of technology. Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper She’s one of the most important computer scientists that you’ve probably never heard of, but Grace Hopper was a pioneer of programming. A profile on the Yale Computer Science website says of Hopper: She believed that “we’ve always done it that way” was not necessarily a good reason to continue to do so.'" As recognition of her achievements, she received the first ever “Computer Science Man-of-the-Year Award” from the Data Processing Management Association in 1969. Steve Jobs Co-founder of Apple Inc with Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs was one of the first people to see the possibilities of a mouse and a graphical user interface developed by Xerox PARC.