Computing People

Background to the schools Wikipedia

This wikipedia selection has been chosen by volunteers helping SOS Children from Wikipedia for this Wikipedia Selection for schools. Visit the SOS Children website at http://www.soschildren.org/

Alan Turing	Bill Gates	Charles Babbage
Donald Knuth	Jimmy Wales	Larry Page
Linus Torvalds	Richard Stallman	Sergey Brin
Steve Jobs	Tim Berners-Lee	Ward Cunningham

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