Murdoch was credited with significantly growing Sky's subscriber numbers and expanding the company into broadband.
Now in its fifth edition, the book is credited with significantly increasing the pace of advances in microprocessor design.
Since its widespread introduction five years ago, it has been credited with significantly lowering mortality rates during famines in Africa.
Having acquired his fortune through gambling, he launched the museum in 2007 and it has since been credited with significantly boosting tourism to Tasmania.
There, he pioneered Project Exile, a widely emulated program to vigorously prosecute felons with guns, which was credited with significantly cutting the homicide rate.
It is a requirement that some lawyers find onerous, but has been credited with significantly slowing the pace of foreclosures in the state.
He had to manage Berlin's finances when the city was about $75 billion in debt and is credited with significantly reining in city spending.
The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) that was passed in 1994 is credited with significantly reducing, among other things, intimate partner violence and intimate partner homicides of both women and men.
At the same time, Facebook's head of security Alex Stamos, who is previously credited with significantly improving the security of Yahoo's operations, called for Flash to be killed off.
Patterson and Hennessy's1990 textbook, Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, has influenced generations of engineers and, through its dissemination of key ideas to the computer architecture community, is credited with significantly increasing the pace of advances in microprocessor design.
Recognized as one of the nation's leading scholars on poverty and welfare, Ellwood's work has been credited with significantly influencing public policy in the United States and abroad.
