Fun Fact: Software Design
What is Software Design? What is software design? Before we explore on what it is as a whole, let us first break down the words that were used to create the word namely, software and design. Software is essentially a set of instructions that can be understood by computer systems. It tells the computer what […]
Onel De Guzman: The Terminator
What did he do? 1999 – AMA Computer College Makati student Onel de Guzman submitted a thesis proposal for the creation of a computer program that will hack into computer systems and extract vital information, particularly Internet Service accounts. The thesis title is Email Password Sender Trojan. What did the College do? The […]
Richard Stallman: The man who loves the word “free”
PERSONAL BACKGROUND NAME: Richard Matthew Stallman BORN: March 16,1953 WHERE: New York City OCCUPATION: President of the Free Software Foundation What did he do? As a hacker in MIT’s AI laboratory, Stallman worked on software projects such as TECO, Emacs, and the Lisp machine operating system. He would become an ardent critic of restricted computer […]
The man who created computer worm
PERSONAL BACKGROUND NAME: Robert Tapan Morris BORN: November 8,1965 WHERE: United States OCCUPATION: Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Partner, Combinator What did he do? l Back in 1988, while a graduate student at Cornell University, Morris created the first worm and released it on the Internet. He claimed it was all an experiment gone awry, […]
Stephen Wozniak: A white hat hacker
PERSONAL BACKGROUND NAME: Stephen Gary Wozniak BORN: August 11,1950 WHERE: San Jose, California OCCUPATION: Entrepreneur, Computer Programmer, Engineer, Inventor, Hacker Steve Wozniak was the main designer on the Apple I and Apple II computers together with Steve Jobs (business brains) and others. The Apple II is noted as the first commercially successful line of personal computers, featuring a […]
Tim Berners-Lee, A Hacker?
PERSONAL BACKGROUND NAME: Tim Berners-Lee BORN: June 8, 1955 WHERE: London, England OCCUPATION: Computer Programmer While working with CERN, a European nuclear research organization, Berners-Lee created a hypertext prototype system that helped researchers share and update information easily. He later realized that hypertext could be joined with the Internet. Berners-Lee recounts how he put them […]
David Mitnick: “The Condor”
PERSONAL BACKGROUND NAME: Kevin David Mitnick (a.k.a The Condor) BORN: August 6, 1963 WHERE: Los Angeles OCCUPATION: Computer consultant and Author What did he do? At age 12, Mitnick used social engineering to by pass the punch card system used in the Los Angeles bus system. After a friendly bus driver told him where he could […]
A man called as “Dark Dante”
PERSONAL BACKGROUND NAME: Kevin Poulsen (a.k.a. Dark Dante) BORN: 1965 WHERE: Pasadena, California OCCUPATION: Senior Editor at Wired News When Kevin Poulsen was 17, he used his primitive TRS-80 “color computer” to hack into the US Department of Defense’s Arpanet, the predecessor of the Internet. He wasn’t prosecuted. He was later a computer programmer at […]
“From pen to keyboard”
PERSONAL BACKGROUND NAME: Eric Gordon Corley (a.k.a. Emmanuel Goldstein) BORN: December 16, 1959 WHERE: Suffolk County, New York OCCUPATION: Writer, Editor, Publisher, Talk Show host Corley’s pseudonym, Emmanuel Goldstein, is taken from the George Orwell book Nineteen Eighty-Four. In which, Emmanuel Goldstein is the mysterious and questionably existent leader of the opposition to Big Brother […]
The man who found-out the “computer outlaw”
PERSONAL BACKGROUND NAME: Tsutomu Shimomura BORN: October 23, 1964 WHERE: Nagoya, Japan OCCUPATION: Physicist and Programmer Tsutomu shimomura was the son of Osamu Shimomura, winner of 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He grew up in Princeton New Jersey and there he attended at Princeton High School. At Caltech he studied under Nobel laureate Richard Feynman. […]
