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Gideon Sundback, inventor of zipper featured in Google Doodle

Gideon Sundback, the Swedish-American electrical engineer, has been featured in a Google Doodle today. Mainly known for his work in the development of the zipper, Sundback was born in Sweden in 1880, later he moved to Germany after finishing his schooling and joined a polytechnic school.

Gideon Sundback emigrated to United States in 1905 and was hired to work for the Universal Fastener Company the next year. This was the start of his work with the zipper, Sundback made several advances in the development of the zipper between 1906 and 1914.

In 1914, Gideon developed a version of zipper based on interlocking teeth, the "Hookless No. 2", which was the base of modern metal zipper. He later got a United States patent no. 1219881 for the "Separable Fastener".

Sundback was not only involved in the invention of modern zipper but also created the manufacturing machine for the new zipper. He was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences in 1951. Gideon died of a heart condition in 1954 and was honoured by inclusion in the National Inventors Hall of Fame for his work on the development of the zipper.

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List of CEO's of IT Companies

• Accenture - William D. Green
• Adobe Systems - Shantanu Narayen
• Alcatel-Lucent - Ben Verwaayen
• Amazon.com - Jeff Bezos
• AMD - Dirk Meyer
• Analog Devices - Jerald G Fishman
• Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group - Anil Ambani
• Apple Inc. - Steve Jobs
• AT&T - Randall L. Stephenson
• Bharti Telecom - Sunil Bharti Mittal
• Borland - Tod Nielsen
• Cisco Systems - John Chambers
• Cognizant Technology Solutions - Francisco D'Souza
• Compuware Corporation - Peter Karmanos, Jr.
• Dell Inc - Michael Dell
• Digg - Jay Adelson
• eBay - John Donahoe
• Electronic Arts - John Riccitiello
• Ericsson - Carl-Henric Svanberg
• Facebook - Mark Zuckerberg
• Free Software Foundation - Richard Stallman
• General Motors - Edward Whitacre, Jr.
• Google - Eric E. Schmidt
• HCL Technologies - Vineet Nayar
• Hewlett-Packard - Léo Apotheker
• Honeywell - David M. Cote
• IBM - Samuel J. Palmisano
• Infosys Technologies Limited - Kris Gopalakrishnan
• Intel - Paul Otellini
• Microsoft - Steven Anthony Ballmer
• Motorola - Greg Brown
• Mozilla - Mitchell Baker
• MySQL AB - Marten Mickos
• MySpace - Chris DeWolfe
• Nokia - Stephen Elop
• Nortel - Mike S. Zafirovski
• Nintendo - Satoru Iwata
• Oracle Corporation - Larry Ellison
• Patni Computer Systems - Narendra Patni
• Pixar - Steve Jobs [Former CEO,Now Walt Disney took over it]
• Reliance Industries Limited - Mukesh Ambani
• Samsung - Kun-Hee Lee
• SAP AG - Henning Kagermann
• Seagate Technology - Steve Luczo
• Sony - Howard Stringer
• Sony Computer Entertainment - Kazuo Hirai
• Sun Microsystems - Jonathan I. Schwartz
• Tata Consultancy Services - N Chandrasekaran
• Twitter - Jack Dorsey
• Verizon - Ivan Seidenberg
• Viacom - Philippe P. Dauman
• Vodafone - Vittorio Colao
• Wipro Technologies - Girish Paranjpe and Suresh Vaswani
• Yahoo! - Carol Bartz
• YouTube, LLC - Salar Kamangar

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IT Quiz 2

1.Of which famous computer company was Michael M. Scott the first president in 1977?

A.Apple

2.Name the statistician credited with coining two of the most often used words: ‘bit’ and ‘software’.

A.john Tuckey

3.Who originally designed the TrueType digital font format?

A.Apple

4.Which was the first language to allow recursion i.e. routines call themselves?

A.ALGOL

5.Which cyber-giant’s social-news site is called Propeller?

A.AOL

6.Which popular application has had codenames such as ‘Liquid Sky’, ‘Strange Cargo’ and ‘Venus in Furs’?

A.Adobe Photoshop

7.Which storage major has pulled the plug on its Fanfare video download service and its companion hardware, the TakeTV?

A.Sandisk

8.Which free social networking and micro-blogging service is the handiwork of Obvious, LLC, a San Francisco start-up company?

A.Twitter

9.Which browser has the tagline ‘SIMPLY THE BEST INTERNET EXPERIENCE’ on its Web site?

A.Opera

10.Which is the world’s largest wireless carrier with nearly 400 million subscriber accounts?

A.China Mobile

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IT Quiz 1

1.Whichcompany was found on 1993 by Jen-Hsun Huang and Chris Malachowsky?

Ans.Nvidia

2.Expand OLED

Ans.Organic Light Emitting Diode

3.Project Gutenberg is from whom?

Ans.Michael S Hart

4.Expand QRIO

Ans."Quest for cuRIOsity”

5.This company was formerly known as Tandy Corporation.Identify the company?

Ans.Radioshack

6.This company was found on 1940 by Marty Bromely, Irving Bromberg, and James Humpert.Id

Ans.Sega

7.What is SGI

Ans.Silicon Graphics Inc.

8.This company was founded in New Delhi in 1983 by Mr.Deepak Puri.Id

Ans.Moserbaer

9.Expand NASDAQ

Ans. National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations Systems

10.This company was founded in Tokyo,Japan (1917),a multinational corporation specializing in optics and imaging.Id

Ans.Nikon

11.Expand PDP

Ans.Plasma Display Panel

12.From where the name Pixar come?

Ans.from pixel and the co-founder's name, Alvy Ray Smith

13.What is the Full form of SVG?

Ans. Scalable Vecyor Graphics.  
14.Which doyen of the Indian IT industry resigned from the company he built to start up "Happiest Minds India Ltd"?  
Ans. Ashok Soota  
15.Connectix Quickcam was the first of which type of digital cameras?
 Ans.Webcam

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