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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.
Educated at the University of Washington, Paterson worked as a repair...
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| x John Warnock |
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John Edward Warnock (born October 6, 1940) is an American computer scientist best known as the co-founder with Charles Geschke of Adobe Systems Inc., the graphics and publishing software company. Dr. Warnock was President of Adobe for his first two...
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| x Michael A. Jackson |
Michael Anthony Jackson (born 1936) is a British computer scientist, and independent computing consultant in London, England. He is also part-time researcher at AT&T; Research, Florham Park, NJ, U.S., and visiting research professor at the Open...
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| x Graham Nelson |
Graham A. Nelson (born 1968) is a British mathematician and poet and the creator of the Inform design system for creating interactive fiction (IF) games. He has also authored several IF games, including the acclaimed Curses (1993) and Jigsaw (1995),...
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| x John Romero |
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Alfonso John Romero (born October 28, 1967, in Colorado Springs, Colorado) is a game designer, programmer, and developer in the video game industry. He is best known as a co-founder of id Software and was a designer for many of their personal...
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| x Robert Tappan Morris |
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Robert Tappan Morris, (born November 8, 1965), is an associate professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in the Institute's department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He is best known for creating the Morris Worm in 1988,...
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| x Leonard Adleman |
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Leonard Max Adleman (born December 31, 1945) is a theoretical computer scientist and professor of computer science and molecular biology at the University of Southern California. He is known for being a co-inventor of the RSA (Rivest-Shamir-Adleman)...
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| x Oliver Twins |
The Oliver Twins are two British brothers, Philip and Andrew Oliver, who started to professionally develop computer games while they were still at school. Their first game, Super Robin Hood for the Amstrad CPC, was published in 1985 by Codemasters....
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| x Bram Cohen |
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Bram Cohen (born 1975) is an American computer programmer, best known as the author of the peer-to-peer (P2P) BitTorrent protocol, as well as the first file sharing program to use the protocol, also known as BitTorrent. He is also the co-founder of...
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| x Richard Garriott |
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Richard Allen Garriott (born July 4, 1961) is an English-American video game developer and entrepreneur. He is also known as his alter egos Lord British in Ultima and General British in Tabula Rasa. A figure in the video game industry, Garriott was...
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| x Rich Skrenta |
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Richard "Rich" Skrenta (b.1967 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a computer programmer and Silicon Valley entrepreneur. In 1982, as a high school student at Mt. Lebanon High School, Skrenta wrote the Elk Cloner virus that infected Apple II machines....
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| x Tim Schafer |
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Timothy Schafer (born July 26, 1967) is an American computer game designer. He founded Double Fine Productions in January 2000, after having spent over a decade at LucasArts.
Schafer is best known as the designer of critically acclaimed games Full...
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| x Michael Abrash |
Michael Abrash is a technical writer specializing in optimization and 80x86 assembly language programmers, a reputation cemented by his 1990 book Zen of Assembly Language Volume 1: Knowledge. The original 8086 processor, the focus of the book, was...
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| x Danielle Bunten Berry |
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Danielle Bunten Berry (February 19, 1949 – July 3, 1998), born Daniel Paul Bunten, and also known as Dani Bunten, was an American game designer and programmer, known for the 1983 game M.U.L.E. (one of the first successful multiplayer games), and...
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| x Alan Miller |
Alan Miller is a pioneering and influential figure in the video game industry. He was an early game designer and programmer for Atari 2600 games who went on to found two large video game developers and publishers.
Miller joined Atari, Inc. in...
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| x William Crowther |
William ("Willie" or "Will") Crowther (born 1936) is a computer programmer and caver. He is best known as the co-creator of Colossal Cave Adventure, a seminal computer game that influenced the first decade of game design and created a new game genre...
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| x John Walker |
John Walker (born ca. 1950) is a computer programmer and a co-founder of the computer-aided design software company Autodesk, and a co-author of early versions of AutoCAD, a product which Autodesk originally acquired from programmer Michael Riddle....
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| x Charles H. Moore |
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Charles H. Moore (also known as Chuck Moore) (born 1938) is the inventor of the Forth programming language.
In 1968, while employed at the United States National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), Moore invented the initial version of the Forth...
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| x Khaled Mardam-Bey |
Khaled Mardam-Bey (born March 19, 1968) is the creator of mIRC, a popular IRC client for Windows.
He was born in Amman, Jordan, to a Syria father and a Palestinian mother, and currently resides in London, England.
At his personal homepage he...
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| x Marc Andreessen |
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Marc Andreessen (born July 9, 1971, in Cedar Falls, Iowa and raised in New Lisbon, Wisconsin, United States) is an entrepreneur, investor, startup coach, blogger, and a multi-millionaire software engineer best known as co-author of Mosaic, the first...
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| x Peter Molyneux |
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Sir Peter Douglas Molyneux OBE, born 5 May 1959 is an English computer game designer and game programmer. He is responsible for well known God games Dungeon Keeper, Populous, and Black & White, among others, as well as business simulation games such...
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| x Hans Reiser |
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Hans Thomas Reiser (born 19 December 1963) is an American computer programmer, owner of Namesys, and the primary developer of the ReiserFS and Reiser4 computer filesystems. On April 28, 2008, Reiser was convicted of the first degree murder of his...
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| x Peter Norton |
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Peter Norton (born November 14, 1943) is an American software publisher, author, and philanthropist.
Norton was born in Aberdeen, Washington. He attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon, graduating in 1965.
In the 1980s, Norton produced a popular...
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| x Ward Christensen |
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Ward Christensen, born in West Bend, Wisconsin, U.S., was the founder of the CBBS bulletin board, the first bulletin board system (BBS) ever brought online. He started development during a blizzard in Chicago, Illinois, and officially established...
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| x Theo de Raadt |
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Theo de Raadt, (pronounced /ˈθiː.oʊ dɛˈrɔːt/), born May 19, 1968 in Pretoria, South Africa, is a software engineer who lives in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He is the founder and leader of the OpenBSD and OpenSSH projects, and was a founding member of...
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| x Scott Adams |
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Scott Adams (born July 10, 1952) is the co-founder, with ex-wife Alexis, of Adventure International, an early publisher of games for home computers.
Born in Miami, Florida, Adams was the first person known to create an adventure-style game for...
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| x Hal Abelson |
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Harold (Hal) Abelson is the Class of 1922 Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, a fellow of the IEEE, and is a founding director, both of Creative Commons and the Free Software Foundation.
Abelson holds an A.B. degree from...
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| x Andrew Morton |
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Andrew Keith Paul Morton (born 1959 in England) is an Australian software engineer, best known as one of the lead developers of the Linux kernel. He is currently a co-maintainer of the Ext3 file system and the journalling layer for block devices ...
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| x Mathias Feist |
Mathias Feist (born 1961 in Germany) is a ChessBase and Fritz programmer. He lead the team that programmed Deep Fritz which has been compared to Deep Blue. He was hired at the end of the 1980s to port the ChessBase program from Atari ST to DOS. He...
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| x Jim Hall |
Jim Hall is a computer programmer and advocate of free software, best known for his work on FreeDOS. Hall began writing the free replacement for the MS-DOS operating system in 1994 when he was still a physics student at the University of Wisconsin...
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| x Ken Silverman |
Ken Silverman (born November 1, 1975) is a game programmer, best known for writing the Build engine used in Duke Nukem 3D, Shadow Warrior, Blood, and more than a dozen other games in the mid- to late-1990s. Once considered the primary rival of John...
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| x Matt Dillon |
Matthew Dillon (born July 1, 1966) is a computer scientist living in Berkeley, California. He is best known for his contributions to FreeBSD and for starting the DragonFly BSD project.
Dillon studied electronic engineering and computer science at...
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| x Werner Koch |
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Werner Koch (born 1961-07-11) is a German free software author. He is best known as the principal author of the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG or GPG). He was also Head of Office and German Vice-Chancellor of the Free Software Foundation Europe.
He lives...
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| x Lou Montulli |
Louis J. Montulli II (best known as Lou Montulli) is a programmer who is well known for his work in producing web browsers. In 1991 and 1992 he co-authored a text web browser called Lynx with Michael Grobe and Charles Rezac while he was at the...
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| x Daniel Glazman |
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Daniel Glazman (born 1967) is a computer programmer, best known for his work on Mozilla's Editor and Composer components and Nvu, a standalone version of the Mozilla Composer, created for Linspire Corporation. He lives in France.
Glazman studied at...
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| x Walter Bright |
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Walter Bright is a computer programmer known for being the designer of the D programming language. He was also the main developer of the first native C++ compiler, Zortech C++ (later to become Symantec C++, now Digital Mars C++). Before the C++...
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| x Howard Scott Warshaw |
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Howard Scott Warshaw (July 30, 1957) is an American former game designer who worked for Atari in the early 1980s, where he designed and programmed the games Yars' Revenge, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and the infamous flop, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial....
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| x Andy Hertzfeld |
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Andy Hertzfeld (born April 6, 1953) was a key member of the original Apple Macintosh development team during the 1980s. After buying an Apple II in January 1978, he went to work for Apple Computer from August 1979 until March 1984, where he was a...
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| x Dave Grossman |
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Dave Grossman is a game programmer and game designer, most known for his work at Telltale Games and early work at LucasArts. He has also written several children's books, and a book of "guy poetry" called Ode to the Stuff in the Sink.
At LucasArts,...
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| x Ron Gilbert |
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Ron Gilbert is an American computer game designer, programmer, and producer, best known for his work on several classic LucasArts adventure games, including Maniac Mansion and the first two Monkey Island games. Gilbert was also co-founder of...
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| x James Clark |
James Clark, (February 23, 1964) is the author of groff and expat and has done much work with open-source software and XML. Born in London, and educated at Charterhouse and Merton College, Oxford, Clark has lived in Bangkok, Thailand since 1995, and...
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| x Chris Roberts |
Chris Roberts (born May 27, 1968) is a computer game designer, programmer, film producer, and director. He is best known for creating the popular Wing Commander series while employed at Origin Systems.
Born in Redwood City, California, Roberts grew...
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| x Rasmus Lerdorf |
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Rasmus Lerdorf (born November 22, 1968 in Qeqertarsuaq, Greenland) is a Danish-Greenlandic programmer and is most notable as the creator of the PHP programming language. He authored the first two versions. Lerdorf also participated in the...
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| x Brian Behlendorf |
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Brian Behlendorf (born March 30, 1973) is a technologist, computer programmer, and an important figure in the open-source software movement. He was a primary developer of the Apache Web server, the most popular web server software on the Internet,...
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| x Adam Powell |
Adam James Powell (born 20 December 1976 in Newport, Wales) is a game designer and businessman. He is the co-founder of Neopets and Meteor Games.
Adam attended the University of Nottingham from 1995 to 1998 studying for a computer science degree....
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| x Chuck Bueche |
Chuck Bueche (also known as Chuckles) is a game programmer most famous for his involvement with the Ultima computer game series.
Bueche was a high school friend and university roommate of Richard Garriott in Austin, Texas. After being introduced to...
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| x Spencer Kimball |
Spencer Kimball is a computer programmer most notable for his early work on the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP).
In 1995, while students at the University of California at Berkeley, Kimball and his classmate Peter Mattis developed the first...
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| x Patrick Volkerding |
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Patrick Volkerding (born 20th October 1966) is the founder and maintainer of the Slackware Linux distribution. He is the "Slackware Benevolent Dictator for Life." Volkerding earned a Bachelor of Science in computer science from Minnesota State...
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| x Richard Wallace |
Richard Wallace, born in Portland, Maine in 1960, is the inventor of A.L.I.C.E., a chat bot created at Lehigh University that won the Loebner prize thrice. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University.
The Elements of AIML...
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| x Dave Lebling |
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P. David Lebling (born October 30, 1949) is an interactive fiction game designer (Implementor) and programmer who has worked at various companies, including Infocom and Avid.
He was born in Washington, D.C., grew up in Maryland, and attended MIT,...
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| x Chris Sawyer |
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Chris Sawyer is a Scottish computer game developer who is best-known for designing and programming Transport Tycoon and the RollerCoaster Tycoon series.
Sawyer entered the games industry in 1983, writing games in Z80 machine code on the Memotech MTX...
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| x Alan Cooper |
Alan Cooper, an advocate of interaction design, runs a design company and writes books about how to make software user interfaces more usable by addressing the user's goals.
Cooper is sometimes called "the father of Visual Basic", although much of...
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| x Mike Cowlishaw |
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Mike Cowlishaw is an IBM Fellow based at IBM UK’s Warwick location, a Visiting Professor at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Warwick, and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (roughly the equivalent of the NAE in the...
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| x Craig McClanahan |
Craig R. McClanahan is a programmer and original author of the Apache Struts framework for building web applications. He was part of the expert group that defined the servlet 2.2, 2.3 and JSP 1.1, 1.2 specifications. He is also the architect of...
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| x Cleve Moler |
Cleve Barry Moler is a mathematician and computer programmer specializing in numerical analysis. In the mid to late 1970s, he was one of the authors of LINPACK and EISPACK, Fortran libraries for numerical computing. He invented MATLAB, a numerical...
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| x Matthew Smith |
Matthew Smith (born 1966) is a British computer game programmer. He is best known for his games Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy for the ZX Spectrum, released in 1983 and 1984 respectively.
He was born in London, but his family moved around a great...
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| x L. Peter Deutsch |
L Peter Deutsch or Peter Deutsch (born Laurence Peter Deutsch) is the founder of Aladdin Enterprises and creator of Ghostscript, a free software PostScript and Pdf interpreter.
Deutsch's other work includes the definitive Smalltalk implementation...
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| x Tim Sweeney |
Tim Sweeney, born in 1970, is a computer game programmer and the founder of Epic Games, being best known for his work on ZZT and the Unreal Engine.
Sweeney established Epic as a shareware company while he was a student majoring in mechanical...
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| x Brad Templeton |
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Brad Templeton (born near Toronto on April 20, 1960), son of Charles Templeton and Sylvia Murphy, is a software engineer and entrepreneur. He graduated from the University of Waterloo.
Templeton is considered one of the early luminaries of Usenet,...
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| x Leigh Benson |
Leigh Michael Benson (January 1, 1967 – August 19, 2008) was an American computer consultant.
Leigh Benson was a self trained computer consultant who was hired by the law firm Canter & Siegel to write a program that would post the same message to...
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