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Off the top of my head: * John Karmack's game engines for Commander Keen, Doom, Quake * Palmer Luckey's original Rift design * Feynman's "parallel" computer at
by abraxasz 12y ago
Off the top of my head:
* John Karmack's game engines for Commander Keen, Doom, Quake
* Palmer Luckey's original Rift design
* Feynman's "parallel" computer at Los Alamos
And many many more if you include mathematical / physical discoveries although these
are not strictly speaking "technological feats". I would add that I do not agree with Zuck's statement, no matter how many examples I can come up with (and despite the fact that I'm myself under 30)
- serf 12y agoFeynman worked on parallelism with a team of other scientists ranging in ages, he just happened to be put as head of the 'IBM Group' which had been tasked with yield calculations at that time. It's unfair to say he alone invented parallelism, which is sadly becoming the popular opinion. I don't know enough about the other feats to comment on them. It's way impressive how young Feynman was when he was apart of the whole project, though. He was the youngest member.
- abraxasz 12y agoLet me quote an excerpt from Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman (p. 127 from my edition): "... I had a very good group [..] clever boys from high school who had an engineering ability". So yes, it was a team of people, but those working on this specific problem seem to have been high schoolers or recently graduated kids :)
- angersock 12y agoCarmack, sir or madam. Carmack.