No, we most certainly do not. And of course one of the 3 spots is wasted on the myth of Lovelace, as usual. Don't bother picking someone who actually mattered.
No, we most certainly do not. And of course one of the 3 spots is wasted on the myth of Lovelace, as usual. Don't bother picking someone who actually mattered.
But if we are talking the general public, who might not know much about Turing beyond that a movie exists, if that. They would have no clue who von Neumann is. Zuckerberg, Gates, and Jobs would be far more likely to be who they think of as innovators of technology.
I wish the cult of personality would go away, and instead of credit going to an individual we could say, "innovators like Facebook, Microsoft, Apple and Tesla/SpaceX".
There is a long unjust tradition of stealing deserved credit from engineers, employees & research assistants[1].
Sometimes individuals are solely resposible for important ideas and implementations, credit should be accorded accurately to teams and individuals.
[1] Jocelyn Bell, discoverer of radio-pulsars, robbed of the Nobel by her research supervisor, stealing credit for it.
Avoiding personalities should we merely say radio-pulsars were discovered at Jodrell Bank ? Seems less accurate, IMHO.