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Builders of machines, structures, networks and the food systems that feed us.

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Konrad Zuse

1910 – 1995

Built the first programmable digital computer, the Z3, in 1941.

Germany·Computing · Engineering

Ernő Rubik

b. 1944

His cube became a global object lesson in group theory.

Hungary·Engineering · Mathematics

Tim Berners-Lee

b. 1955

Wrote the web and gave it away for nothing.

United Kingdom·Computing · EngineeringFull profile