OK, Soniya, name one on a par with Gosling, Stroustrup, Kernighan, Richie, Korn, Bourne, Hopper, Bachus, Jobs, Amdahl, Eckert, Mauchly, Turing, Knuth, or even just Watson (senior and junior) or Gates.
That was fun! How many of you can supply all the first names without google?
Hi Mike this is not to insult or hurt anybody. After looking on the names above I felt like laughing!!! Most of the above names need googling.
Peoples like Sabeer Bhatia, Vinod Khosla, Narayana murthy, Azim Premji, Dipak Jain are more than some of the people you named above.
Nowadays one cannot name single person as a great innovator. All the innovations is a team effort. Team constitutes of Americans, Europians, Asians etc. The greatest innovations in IT like Windows, IE, Google etc are all contributed by major number of indian developers.
Companies like IBM, Microsft, Oracle, BEA, Intel all have R&D centers in India, that means the latest innovations by these leaders are also contributed by Indians like the Americans do here