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Much of Bott's own unorthodox youth was spent avoiding educational systems that emphasized rote learning. Born in Budapest on September 24, 1923, to a Jewish mother and a Catholic father, he lived the first 16 years of his life in the Hungarian part of Slovakia. His parents divorced soon after he was born, but Bott nonetheless led a childhood of affluence, since his new stepfather was a high-ranking manager in a sugar factory...
Until the age of eight, Bott was educated by governesses in arithmetic, German and English at his Hungarian-speaking home. When he became eight, Bott says he was unhappily sent off to elementary school. School was not his forte, as he write in his memoirs...
...HUNGARIAN FREEDOM FIGHTER 1956 Rebels with a lost cause--ousting the Soviets
Moore is a shy, methodical man. He has the careful outlook of someone who has spent his life trying to get molecules to behave. Early on Moore saw something special in the young Hungarian and decided to nurture it. In 1970, as the two were strolling through the zoo in Washington, D.C., Moore told Grove, "One day you'll run Intel." For the next two decades Moore shaped and polished Grove's thinking about everything from plastic packaging to Japanese trade. "He was," says Grove, "a father figure." In 1979 Grove became president, and when Moore stepped down...
Grove's selection echoes two previous honorees: we recognized his countrymen in 1956 by selecting the Hungarian Freedom Fighter, and his business in 1982, when the computers that Intel's chips were already enabling were named "Machine of the Year." This week's issue also caps a year in which TIME's commitment to the digital era bore richer fruit than ever. We consider the computer revolution one of the defining stories of our time. Our coverage in 1997 ranged from managing editor Walter Isaacson's groundbreaking profile of Bill Gates of Microsoft to that company's bailout of Apple...