Dennis Ritchie
Hey there! Are you an Apple fan? GNU/Linux user? Do you use smartphone or tablet? Do you like the internet?
Meet Dennis Ritchie, with Ken Thompson. He co-invented the Linux operating system and C programming language. Which all those technologies depend on.
For this, he was awarded a International Medal of Technology. Which is like computing Oscar, and a turning a award, which is the Noble Prize of Computer Science
He died a week after Steve Jobs, which you know about.