On November 29, 2010 died Sir Maurice Vincent Wilkes. He was a British computer scientist who designed and helped build the Electronic delay storage automatic calculator (EDSAC), one of the earliest stored program computers and invented microprogramming, a method for using stored-program logic to operate the control unit of a central processing unit’s circuits.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Wilkes
On December 1, 1941 was born Federico Faggin. He is an Italian-American physicist, engineer, inventor and entrepreneur. He is best known for designing the first commercial microprocessor, the Intel 4004. He led the 4004 (MCS-4) project and the design group during the first five years of Intel’s microprocessor effort. After the 4004, he led development of the Intel 8008 and 8080, using his SGT methodology for random logic chip design, which was essential to the creation of early Intel microprocessors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federico_Faggin
On December 4, 1957 was born Eric Steven Raymond. He is an American software developer, open-source software advocate, and author of the 1997 essay and 1999 book The Cathedral and the Bazaar. He wrote a guidebook for the Roguelike game NetHack. In the 1990s, he edited and updated the Jargon File, currently in print as The New Hacker’s Dictionary.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_S._Raymond