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Thu, 15th Nov 2012
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Technology continues to advance at a rate of knots across the world, here at TechDay we decided to celebrate the tech figureheads in the industry.

But with one stipulation…

After checking out our daily clues to guess the well-known tech figure, here is who we were talking about…

Who Am I?

1. Born in Iowa in 1927.

2. Nicknamed “the Mayor of Silicon Valley”.

3. Ran two companies which had a great impact on the silicon industry.

4. Invented the integrated chip – leading the way to microprocessors in the modern day computer.

5. Died of a heart attack in 1990.

Answer:

Robert Noyce

Clues:

1. Born in Michigan in the early 70s.

2. Came from a family of computer scientists.

3. Formed a successful partnership with a University friend and launched their world famous company in 1998.

4. Named their internet company after a mathematical equation.

5. Became a billionaire in 2004, heading one of the world's most iconic internet firms.

Answer:

Google co-founder Larry Page.

Clues:

1. Born in America's Orange County.

2. He was a mainframe computer worker at Hewlett-Packard in his early career.

3. His work is credited greatly with contributing to the personal computer revolution of the 1970s.

4. He has over 100,000 followers on social media site Twitter.

Answer:

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak

Who Am I?

1. Joined her current company as a systems engineer in 1981

2. Credited with spearheading the company's growth strategy in cloud company and analytics businesses

3. Embarrassingly overlooked for membership at golf's Augusta National, despite her company sponsoring the event

4. Became the first women to become CEO of her company in 2011

5. Figures strongly in Fortune magazine's “50 Most Powerful Women in Business”, ranking first in 2012

Answer:

Virginia Rometty