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| x Programmer |
A programmer is someone who writes computer software. The term computer programmer can refer to a specialist in one area of computer programming or to a generalist who writes code for many kinds of software. One who practices or professes a formal...
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Justin Frankel (born 1978) is an American computer programmer best known for his work on the Winamp media player application and for inventing the Gnutella peer-to-peer system. He's also the founder of Cockos Incorporated which creates music...
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| x Guido van Rossum |
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Guido van Rossum (born 31 January 1960) is a Dutch computer programmer who is best known as the author of the Python programming language. In the Python community, Van Rossum is known as a “Benevolent Dictator for Life” (BDFL), meaning that he...
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Larry Wall (born September 27, 1954) is a programmer and author, most widely known for his creation of the Perl programming language in 1987.
Wall earned his bachelor's degree from Seattle Pacific University in 1976.
While in graduate school at UC...
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| x Linus Torvalds |
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Linus Benedict Torvalds (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈliːnɵs ˈtuːrvalds] ( listen); born December 28, 1969 in Helsinki, Finland) is a Finnish software engineer best known for having initiated the development of the Linux kernel. He later became the...
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Rael Dornfest is an American computer programmer and author. He is UX engineer of Twitter, and was formerly the Chief Technology Officer at O'Reilly Media.
He led the RSS-DEV working group, which authored RSS 1.0 and is the author of Blosxom , a...
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| x Terence Parr |
Terence John Parr (b. Los Angeles, August 17, 1964) is a professor of computer science at the University of San Francisco and is best known for his ANTLR parser generator and contributions to parsing theory. He is also the creator of the...
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| x Alan Kay |
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Alan Curtis Kay (born May 17, 1940) is an American computer scientist, known for his early pioneering work on object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user interface design, and for coining the phrase, "The best way to predict the future...
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Alan Cox (born July 22, 1968 in Solihull, England) is a British computer programmer heavily involved in the development of the Linux kernel since its early days in 1991. He lives in Swansea, Wales with his wife, Telsa Gwynne.
While employed on the...
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| x Andrew Tridgell |
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Andrew "Tridge" Tridgell (born 28 February 1967) is an Australian computer programmer best known as the author of and contributor to the Samba file server, and co-inventor of the rsync algorithm.
He is known for his analysis of complex proprietary...
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| x Andrew S. Tanenbaum |
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Andrew Stuart "Andy" Tanenbaum (sometimes referred to by the handle ast) (born March 16, 1944) is a professor of computer science at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam in the Netherlands. He is best known as the author of MINIX, a free Unix-like...
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| x Bill Gates |
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William Henry Gates is an American business magnate, philanthropist, and chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen.
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| x Bill Joy |
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Bill Joy, longtime KP Limited Partner, joined KPCB as Partner in January 2005.At
KP he helps entrepreneurs advance the Internet, develop wireless
innovations, and find new ways of using large scale computing to solve
the most difficult problems. He...
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| x Brian Kernighan |
Brian Wilson Kernighan (pronounced /ˈkɛrnɪhæn/, the 'g' is silent), (born January 1942, Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a computer scientist who worked at Bell Labs alongside Unix creators Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie and contributed greatly to Unix...
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| x Bill Schelter |
William Frederick Schelter (1947 - July 30, 2001) was a professor of mathematics at The University of Texas at Austin and a Lisp developer and programmer. Schelter is credited with the development of GNU Common Lisp (gcl) implementation of Common...
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| x Donald Knuth |
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Donald Ervin Knuth (pronounced /kəˈnuːθ/) (born January 10, 1938) is a renowned computer scientist and Professor Emeritus of the Art of Computer Programming at Stanford University.
Author of the seminal multi-volume work The Art of Computer...
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| x Dan Bricklin |
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Daniel S. Bricklin (born 16 July 1951) is the American co-creator, with Bob Frankston, of the VisiCalc spreadsheet program. He also founded Software Garden, Inc., of which he is currently president, and Trellix Corporation, which is currently owned...
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| x Dave Winer |
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Dave Winer (born May 2, 1955 in Brooklyn, New York City, USA) is an American software developer, entrepreneur and writer in Berkeley, California. A pioneer in the areas of outliners, content management, XML-RPC, RSS, OPML, and the MetaWeblog API, he...
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| x Eric S. Raymond |
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Eric Steven Raymond (born December 4, 1957), often referred to as ESR, is a computer programmer, author and open source software advocate. His name became known within the hacker culture when he picked up maintenance of the "Jargon File" in 1990....
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| x Grace Hopper |
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Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper (December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992) was an American computer scientist and United States Naval officer. A pioneer in the field, she was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, and she developed...
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| x Greg Egan |
Greg Egan (born 20 August 1961) is an Australian science fiction author.
Egan specialises in hard science fiction stories with mathematical and quantum ontology themes, including the nature of consciousness. Other themes include genetics, simulated...
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| x Gary Kildall |
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Gary Arlen Kildall (May 19, 1942 – July 11, 1994) was an American computer scientist and microcomputer entrepreneur who created the CP/M operating system and founded Digital Research, Inc. (DRI). Kildall was one of the first people to see...
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| x Ken Thompson |
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Ken Thompson (born February 4, 1943), commonly referred to as ken in hacker circles, is an American pioneer of computer science notable for his work with the B programming language and his shepherding of the Unix and Plan 9 operating systems. Most...
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| x Mike Muuss |
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Michael John Muuss (October 16, 1958 - November 20, 2000) was the author of the freeware network tool Ping.
A graduate of Johns Hopkins University, Muuss was a senior scientist specializing in geometric solid modeling, ray-tracing, MIMD...
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| x Paul Vixie |
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Paul Vixie is the author of several RFCs and standard UNIX system programs, among them SENDS, proxynet, rtty and Vixie cron.
In 1988, while employed by DEC, he started working on the popular internet domain name server BIND, of which he was the...
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| x Paul Allen |
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Paul Gardner Allen (born January 21, 1953) is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist who co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates and is one of the wealthiest people in the world.
He is the founder and chairman of Vulcan Inc., which is his private...
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| x Rob Pike |
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Robert C. Pike (born 1956) is a software engineer and author. He is best known for his work at Bell Labs, where he was a member of the Unix team and was involved in the creation of the Plan 9 from Bell Labs and Inferno operating systems, as well as...
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| x Steve Wozniak |
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Stephen Gary "Woz" Wozniak (born August 11, 1950 in San Jose, California) is an American computer engineer who founded Apple Computer, Inc. (now Apple Inc.) with Steve Jobs and Ronald Wayne. His inventions and machines are credited with contributing...
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| x Ward Cunningham |
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Howard G. "Ward" Cunningham (born May 26, 1949) is an American computer programmer who developed the first wiki. A pioneer in both design patterns and Extreme Programming, he started programming the software WikiWikiWeb in 1994 and installed it on...
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| x Yukihiro Matsumoto |
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He was born in Osaka Prefecture, in western Honshū. According to an interview conducted by Japan Inc., he was a self-taught programmer until the end of high school. He graduated with an information science degree from Tsukuba University, where...
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| x Jamie Zawinski |
Jamie W. Zawinski (born November 3, 1968 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), commonly known as jwz, is a former professional American computer programmer responsible for significant contributions to the free software projects Mozilla and XEmacs, and early...
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| x Jeff Minter |
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Jeff 'Yak' Minter (born in Reading, April 22, 1962) is a British computer/video game designer and programmer. He is the founder of software house Llamasoft and his recent works include Neon (2004), a non-game music visualization program that has...
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| x Shawn Fanning |
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Shawn Fanning (born November 22, 1980, Brockton, Massachusetts), is a computer programmer. He is famous for developing Napster, one of the first popular peer-to-peer filesharing platforms, in 1998.
Shawn worked summers at (uncle) John Fanning's...
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| x John Carmack |
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John D. Carmack II (born August 20, 1970) is an American game programmer, and the co-founder of id Software. Carmack was the lead programmer of the id computer games Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake, and the sequels to Doom, Quake and...
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| x John Ousterhout |
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John Kenneth Ousterhout (pronounced /ˈoʊstərhaʊt/) is the chairman of Electric Cloud, Inc. and a professor of computer science at Stanford University. He founded Electric Cloud with John Graham-Cumming. Ousterhout previously was a professor of...
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| x Randal L. Schwartz |
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Randal L. Schwartz (born November 22, 1961), also known as merlyn, is an American author, system administrator and programming consultant. Schwartz is the co-author of several widely used books about Perl, a programming language, and has written...
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| x James Gosling |
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James A. Gosling, O.C., Ph.D. (born May 19, 1955 near Calgary, Alberta, Canada) is a software developer, best known as the father of the Java programming language.
In 1977, James Gosling received a B.Sc in Computer Science from the University of...
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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 the RSX-11M, VMS and VAXELN systems of Digital Equipment Corporation and Windows NT of Microsoft.
David...
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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 Phil Katz |
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Phillip Walter Katz (November 3, 1962 – April 14, 2000) was a computer programmer best-known as the creator of the zip file format for data compression, and the author of PKZIP, a program for creating zip files which ran under DOS.
Phil Katz...
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| x David A. Wheeler |
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David A. Wheeler (born 1965) is a computer scientist . He is best known for his work on Open source software/Free-libre software (FLOSS or OSS/FS) and Computer security.
In 2000, Wheeler self-published "Why Open Source Software / Free Software? Look...
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| x Gerald Jay Sussman |
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Gerald Jay Sussman (August 9, 1947) is the Panasonic Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He received his S.B. and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics from MIT in 1968 and 1973 respectively. He has been...
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| x Bo Jangeborg |
Bo Jangeborg is a Swedish computer programmer. He made several programs for the ZX Spectrum, the best known being the game Fairlight, its sequel Fairlight II and the graphic tool The Artist. He is also known for writing Flash!, the art package...
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| x Matthias Ettrich |
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Matthias Ettrich (born 14 June 1972 in Bietigheim-Bissingen, southern Germany) is a computer scientist known for his contributions to the KDE and LyX projects.
Matthias went to School in Beilstein, as he lived with his parents in Oberstenfeld, not...
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| x Brad Fitzpatrick |
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Bradley Joseph "Brad" Fitzpatrick (born February 5, 1980 in Iowa), often seen on the Internet under the nickname bradfitz, is an American programmer. He is best known as the creator of LiveJournal and is the author of a variety of free software...
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| x Andrey Ershov |
Academician Andrey Petrovych Ershov (19 April 1931, Moscow - 8 December 1988, Moscow) was a Soviet computer scientist, notable as a pioneer in systems programming and programming language research. He was responsible for the languages ALPHA and...
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| x Sid Meier |
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Sidney K. "Sid" Meier (born February 24, 1954) is a Canadian programmer and designer of several popular computer strategy games who has won accolades for his contributions to the computer games industry. Meier is a Director of Creative Development...
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| x Nat Friedman |
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Nathaniel Dourif Friedman (born August 6, 1977), known as Nat, is a programmer who co-founded Ximian along with Miguel de Icaza in 1999, a company that was later bought by Novell in 2003.
Nat held the post of CEO of Ximian from 1999 to 2001 when...
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| x Eric Allman |
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Eric Paul Allman (born September 2, 1955) is an American computer programmer who developed sendmail and its precursor delivermail in the late 1970s and early 1980s at UC Berkeley.
Born in El Cerrito, California, Allman knew from an early age that he...
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| x Jarkko Oikarinen |
Jarkko Oikarinen (born 16 August 1967) is the developer of the first Internet chat network, called Internet Relay Chat (IRC), where he is known as WiZ. While working at Finland's University of Oulu in August 1988, he wrote the first IRC server and...
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| x Henry Spencer |
Henry Spencer is a Canadian computer programmer and space enthusiast. He wrote 'regex', a widely-used software library for regular expressions, and co-wrote C News, a Usenet server program. He also authored The Ten Commandments for C Programmers. He...
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| x Donald Becker |
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Donald Becker is a notable developer well known for writing many of the Ethernet drivers for the Linux operating system. Thousands of computers around the world routinely use his drivers to connect to the Internet.
Becker, in collaboration with...
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| x Paul Graham |
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Paul Graham (born 1965) is a programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist. He is known for his work on Lisp and for co-founding Viaweb, which eventually became the Yahoo! Store web system. He is the author of On Lisp (1993), ANSI Common Lisp (1995),...
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| x Bram Moolenaar |
Bram Moolenaar (born in 1961, in Lisse, province of Zuid-Holland, Netherlands) is an active member of the open source software community. He is the author of Vim, a text editor which is very popular among programmers and users of Free Software.
He...
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