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| x Alexey Pazhitnov |
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Alexey Leonidovich Pajitnov (Russian: Алексей Леонидович Пажитнов, Aleksei Leonidovich Pazhitnov; born 14 March 1956) is a Russian computer engineer, currently residing in the United States, who developed the popular game Tetris while working for...
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| x Bill Gates |
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William Henry "Bill" Gates III (born October 28, 1955 in Seattle, Washington) is an American business magnate, computer programmer and philanthropist. Gates is the former chief executive officer (CEO) and current chairman of Microsoft, the software...
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| x Paul Allen |
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Paul Gardner Allen (born January 21, 1953) is an American investor and philanthropist best known as the co-founder of Microsoft Corporation, a leading developer of personal-computer software systems and applications. He is also the 48th richest...
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| x Steve Ballmer |
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Steven Anthony "Steve" Ballmer (born March 24, 1956) is the chief executive officer of Microsoft, having held that post since January 2000. As of 2012, his personal wealth is estimated at $15.7 billion, ranking number 19 on the Forbes 400.
Ballmer...
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| x C. A. R. Hoare |
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Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare (born 11 January 1934), commonly known as Tony Hoare or C. A. R. Hoare, is a British computer scientist best known for the development (in 1960, at age 26) of Quicksort, a well-known sorting algorithm. He also...
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| x Melinda Gates |
Melinda French Gates, wife of billionaire Bill Gates, is the co-founder and co-chairman of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. She has received awards like the Prince of Asturias Award for International Cooperation and the Order of the Aztec Eagle...
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| x Dave Cutler |
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David Neil Cutler, Sr. (born March 13, 1942) is an American software engineer, designer and developer of several operating systems including RSX-11M, VMS and VAXELN at Digital Equipment Corporation and Windows NT at Microsoft.
David Cutler was born...
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| x Anders Hejlsberg |
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Anders Hejlsberg (born December 1960) is a prominent Danish software engineer who co-designed several popular and commercially successful programming languages and development tools. He was the original author of Turbo Pascal, the chief architect of...
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| x Butler Lampson |
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Butler W. Lampson (born December 23, 1943) is a renowned computer scientist.
After graduating from the Lawrenceville School (where in 2009 he was awarded the Aldo Leopold Award, also known as the Lawrenceville Medal, Lawrenceville's highest award to...
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| x Craig Mundie |
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Craig James Mundie (born July 1, 1949 in Cleveland, Ohio) is chief research and strategy officer at Microsoft. He started in its consumer platforms division in 1992, managing the production of Windows CE for hand-held and automotive systems and...
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| x Leslie Lamport |
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Leslie Lamport (born February 7, 1941 in New York City) is an American computer scientist. Lamport is best known for his seminal work in distributed systems and as the initial developer of the document preparation system LaTeX.
A graduate of the...
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| x Tim Paterson |
Tim Paterson (born 1956) is an American computer programmer, best known as the original author of MS-DOS, the most widely used personal computer operating system in the 1980s.
Paterson was educated in the Seattle Public Schools, graduating from...
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| x Niels Ferguson |
Niels T. Ferguson (born 10 December 1965, Eindhoven) is a Dutch cryptographer and consultant who currently works for Microsoft. He has worked with others, including Bruce Schneier, designing cryptographic algorithms, testing algorithms and protocols...
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| x Sabeer Bhatia |
Sabeer Bhatia (born December 30, 1968) is an Indian American entrepreneur who co-founded the Hotmail email service and Jaxtr.
Sabeer Bhatia was born in Chandigarh on 30 December 1968. He grew up in Bangalore and had his early education at The Bishop...
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| x James N. Gray |
James Nicholas "Jim" Gray (born January 12, 1944; lost at sea January 28, 2007) was an American computer scientist who received the Turing Award in 1998 "for seminal contributions to database and transaction processing research and technical...
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| x Bob Wallace |
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Bob Wallace (May 29, 1949 – September 20, 2002), was the ninth Microsoft employee, first popular user of the term shareware, creator of the word processing program PC-Write, founder of the software company Quicksoft and an "online drug guru" who...
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| x Gordon Bell |
C. Gordon Bell (born August 19, 1934) is an American computer engineer and manager. An early employee of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) 1960–1966, Bell designed several of their PDP machines and later became Vice President of Engineering 1972...
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| x Ray Ozzie |
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Raymond "Ray" Ozzie (born November 20, 1955) is an American software industry entrepreneur who held the positions of Chief Technical Officer and Chief Software Architect at Microsoft between 2005 and 2010. Before Microsoft, he was best known for his...
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| x Patricia Q. Stonesifer |
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Chief Executive Officer, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Patty Stonesifer leads the foundation's mission to promote equity for
all people around the world. For all three of the foundation's program
groups, she sets strategic priorities, monitors...
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| x Richard Brodie |
Richard Reeves Brodie (born November 10, 1959) is an American computer programmer and author. He was the original creator of Microsoft Word. After leaving Microsoft, Brodie became a motivational speaker and authored two bestselling books.
Brodie was...
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| x Terry Halpin |
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Terence Aidan (Terry) Halpin is an Australian computer scientist who is known for his formalization of the object role modeling notation.
Born in Australia Halpin studied at the University of Queensland starting in the 1970s and eventually received...
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| x Michael Freedman |
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Michael Hartley Freedman (born 21 April 1951 in Los Angeles, California, U.S.) is a mathematician at Microsoft Station Q, a research group at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 1986, he was awarded a Fields Medal for his work on the...
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| x Charles Simonyi |
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Charles Simonyi (Hungarian: Simonyi Károly; born September 10, 1948, son of Karoly Simonyi) is a Hungarian-American computer software executive who, as head of Microsoft's application software group, oversaw the creation of Microsoft's flagship...
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| x Joel Spolsky |
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Avram Joel Spolsky (born 1965) is a software engineer and writer. He is the author of Joel on Software, a blog on software development. He was a Program Manager on the Microsoft Excel team between 1991 and 1994. He later founded Fog Creek Software...
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| x Robert Glaser |
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Rob Glaser (born January 16, 1962) is the founder of RealNetworks (1994) which produces RealAudio, RealVideo, RealPlayer, and Helix, among other products and services. Before founding RealNetworks, he had become a millionaire by working for...
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| x Gabe Newell |
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Gabe Logan Newell (born November 3, 1962) is the co-founder and managing director of the video game development and online distribution company Valve Corporation.
After having dropped out of Harvard University Newell spent thirteen years working for...
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| x Tom Miller |
Tom Miller (born in 1950) is a software developer who is employed by Microsoft.
Miller worked as a member of the original team of developers who followed Dave Cutler from DEC to Microsoft, where he initially started working in the networking group....
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| x Gary Kimura |
Gary Dean Kimura is a Professor for the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington and a software developer who worked for Microsoft.
Born in 1956, he was brought up in Seattle, Washington. He graduated from...
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| x Mark Lucovsky |
Mark Lucovsky is an American software developer who worked for Microsoft and who is now employed by VMware as Vice President of Engineering in charge of Cloud Foundry. He is noted for being a part of the team that designed and built the Windows NT...
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| x Gordon Letwin |
James Gordon Letwin (born July 2, 1952) is an American software developer and one of the original twelve Microsoft employees.
Prior to joining Microsoft, he worked for Heathkit, on HDOS and Benton Harbor Basic.
While at Microsoft, Letwin worked on a...
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| x Raymond Chen |
Raymond Chen is a developer on the Windows Shell team at Microsoft. Since joining Microsoft in 1992, Chen has worked on OS/2, Windows 95, DirectX, and later versions of Windows. Outside of Microsoft, he is known for his articles on Windows...
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| x Tantek Çelik |
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Tantek Çelik is a computer scientist of Turkish-American descent and was the Chief Technologist at Technorati. He is one of the principal editors of several CSS Specifications.
He gained a following during his time at Microsoft (1997–2004), where he...
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| x Bruce Leak |
Bruce Leak is an American inventor and entrepreneur. He was one of three co-founders of WebTV and is credited with making several major advances in the Macintosh operating system. Wired magazine described him as an "Apple Hero," saying that he "kick...
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| x Nathan Myhrvold |
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Nathan Paul Myhrvold (born August 3, 1959(1959-08-03)), formerly Chief Technology Officer at Microsoft, is co-founder of Intellectual Ventures. Myhrvold, usually with coinventors, holds 17 U.S. patents assigned to Microsoft and has applied for more...
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| x Robert Scoble |
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Robert Scoble (born January 18, 1965) is an American blogger, technical evangelist, and author. Scoble is best known for his blog, Scobleizer, which came to prominence during his tenure as a technology evangelist at Microsoft. He is married to...
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| x Herb Sutter |
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Herb Sutter is a prominent C++ expert. He is also a book author and a columnist for Dr. Dobb's Journal. He joined Microsoft in 2002 as a platform evangelist for Visual C++ .NET, rising to lead software architect for C++/CLI. Sutter served as...
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| x Seamus Blackley |
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Seamus Blackley is a former agent with Creative Artists Agency representing video game creators.
After entering Tufts University to study jazz piano, Blackley switched to study physics and graduated Summa cum Honore en Tesis. As a sophomore, he...
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| x Mark Jen |
Mark Jen is known for being terminated with cause by Google, Inc. for distributing corporate secrets in his personal blog, 99zeros. His original writings are still available for viewing in the archives at his current blog. Jen worked for Google...
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| x Kazuhiko Nishi |
Kazuhiko Nishi (西 和彦, Nishi Kazuhiko, born February 10, 1956 in Kobe, Japan) launched ASCII magazine. Gradually ASCII started to publish software solutions too. Later he become Bill Gates' friend and in charge of Microsoft's Far Eastern operations....
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| x Chris Hecker |
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Christopher Bryan Hecker is a video game programmer and commentator.
Hecker was a student at the Parsons School of Design in New York City, studying the fine arts towards work as an illustrator. An article in Byte Magazine sold him on programming...
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| x Mike Harrington |
Mike Harrington is the co-founder of the computer game development company, Valve Software and a lead programmer of the game Half-Life.
Previously a games developer at Dynamix and a developer on the Windows NT operating system at Microsoft,...
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| x Charles P. Thacker |
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Charles P. (Chuck) Thacker (born 1943) is an American pioneer computer designer.
Thacker was born in Pasadena, California on February 26, 1943. He received his B.S. in physics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1967. He then joined the...
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| x Don Box |
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Don Box is a Distinguished Engineer currently working at Microsoft.
Along with Bob Atkinson, Mohsen Al-Ghosein, and Dave Winer, Don was one of the original four designers of SOAP, a basic messaging layer for web services.
In January 2011, he joined...
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| x Jim Blinn |
James F. Blinn is a computer scientist who first became widely known for his work as a computer graphics expert at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), particularly his work on the pre-encounter animations for the Voyager project, his work on the...
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| x James Allchin |
James "Jim" Edward Allchin (born in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1951) is a former executive at Microsoft, where he was responsible for many of the platform components from Microsoft including Microsoft Windows, Windows Server, server products such as...
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| x J Allard |
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J Allard (born James Allard, on January 12, 1969, in Glens Falls, New York) was "Chief Experience Officer" and Chief Technology Officer for the Entertainment and Devices Division at Microsoft. He also oversaw Microsoft's first foray into the video...
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| x Erik Gavriluk |
Erik Gavriluk (born September, 26 1970)in Huntington, New York is a record producer, musician, and software engineer.
He was a founding employee of DreamWorks SKG and a lead designer on the Cairo Operating System project at Microsoft. He developed...
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| x Richard Rashid |
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Richard (Rick) F. Rashid oversees Microsoft Research's worldwide operations. Previously, he was the director of Microsoft Research. He joined Microsoft Research in 1991, and was promoted to vice president in 1994. In 2000, he became senior vice...
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| x Mark Zbikowski |
Mark "Zibo" Joseph Zbikowski (born March 21, 1956) is a former Microsoft Architect and an early computer hacker. He started working at the company only a few years after its inception, leading efforts in MS-DOS, OS/2, Cairo and Windows NT. In 2006...
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| x Dare Obasanjo |
Dare Obasanjo is a Program Manager at Microsoft where he works on the Contacts team. The Contacts team provides back-end support for Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live Spaces, Windows Live Expo, and related services. Obasanjo is also known for RSS...
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| x Kai-Fu Lee |
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Kai-Fu Lee (simplified Chinese: 李开复; traditional Chinese: 李開復; pinyin: Lǐ Kāifù; born December 3, 1961) is a Taiwanese-born American information technology executive, writer, and computer scientist. He is currently based in China.
He became the...
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| x Larry Hryb |
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Larry Hryb worked for Clear Channel Communications in Hartford, Connecticut for WKSS prior to Microsoft. Larry joined the Xbox team in early 2004 as the Xbox LIVE Director Of Programming. Hryb has been instrumental in the development in the Xbox 360...
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| x Nikhil Kothari |
Nikhil Kothari is an architect on the a Web/ASP.NET team at Microsoft, and is primarily responsible for the server controls framework, Atlas (Ajax Framework) framework, and ScriptSharp.
He is the author of "Developing ASP.NET Server Controls and...
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| x Kevin B. Turner |
B. Kevin Turner is an American businessman known for his executive leadership roles at Wal-Mart and Microsoft. As of August 2005, he is the Chief Operating Officer at Microsoft.
Turner was born in 1965. In 1987 he earned a Bachelor of Science in...
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| x Greg Whitten |
Greg Whitten is a former Microsoft Chief software architect where he worked from 1979 to 1998. Whitten graduated from the University of Virginia with a B.A. in mathematics and from Harvard University with a Ph.D. in applied mathematics. At Microsoft...
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| x John Platt |
John Platt is a Principal Researcher in the Machine Learning department at Microsoft Research. Platt has worked for Microsoft since 1997. Prior to Microsoft, Platt had served as Director of Research at Synaptics.
Platt was born in Elgin, Illinois...
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| x Robert J. Bach |
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Robert J. Bach (born December 31, 1961), commonly known as Robbie Bach, was the President of Entertainment & Devices Division at Microsoft. He led the division that is responsible for the Xbox, Xbox 360, Zune, Windows Games, Windows Mobile and the...
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| x Virginia Howlett |
Virginia Howlett (born 1951 in Edmonton, Canada) is a designer and painter.
With an MFA in Painting from The Art Institute of Chicago, Howlett was one of the first designers hired into Microsoft in 1985. While there, she built the company's first...
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| x Brad Silverberg |
Brad is a founding partner of Ignition. He invests in software, infrastructure, and consumer companies. Brad represents Ignition as director on the boards of Seven, SourceLabs, ice.com, infiLearn, Avvo, and Illumita. Prior
to founding Ignition,...
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| x Darcy Burner |
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Darcy Gibbons Burner (born November 12, 1970) is a Democrat from Carnation, Washington. She was a candidate for the United States House of Representatives, running in Washington's 8th congressional district in 2006 and 2008, but lost to incumbent...
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