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Linus Torvalds
Creator and lead developer of the Linux kernel (born 1969)
Linus Benedict Torvalds (LEE-nəs TOR-vawldz,[3]Finland Swedish:[ˈliːnʉsˈtuːrvɑlds]ⓘ; born 28 December 1969) is a Finnish software engineer who is the creator and lead developer of the Linux kernel.
He also created the distributed version control system Git.
He was honored, along with Shinya Yamanaka, with the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize by the Technology Academy Finland "in recognition of his creation of a new open sourceoperating system for computers leading to the widely used Linux kernel".[4] He is also the recipient of the 2014 IEEE Computer Society Computer Pioneer Award[5] and the 2018 IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award.[6]
Life and career
Early years
Torvalds was born in Helsinki, Finland, on 28 December 1969, the son of journalists Anna and Nils Torvalds,[7] the grandson of statistician Leo Törnqvist and of poet
