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| x Bjarne Stroustrup |
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C++ |
Bjarne Stroustrup (Danish pronunciation: [ˈbjɑːnə ˈsdʁʌʊ̯ˀsdʁɔb]); born December 30, 1950 in Århus, Denmark) is a Danish computer scientist, most notable for the creation and the development of the widely used C++ programming language. He is...
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| x Dennis Ritchie |
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C |
Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie (b. September 9, 1941; found dead October 12, 2011), was an American computer scientist who "helped shape the digital era." He created the C programming language and, with long-time colleague Ken Thompson, the Unix...
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| M4 | |||
| x Kenneth E. Iverson |
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APL |
Kenneth Eugene Iverson (17 December 1920 - 19 October 2004) was a Canadian computer scientist noted for the development of the APL programming language in 1962. He was honored with the Turing Award in 1979 for his contributions to mathematical...
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| x Bertrand Meyer |
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Eiffel |
Bertrand Meyer (born 1950 in France) is an academic, author, and consultant in the field of computer languages. He created the Eiffel programming language.
Bertrand Meyer received the equivalent of a bachelor's degree in engineering from the École...
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| x Microsoft |
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Visual Basic |
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, United States that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to...
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| x Alan Kay |
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Smalltalk |
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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| x Wally Feurzeig | ALGOL |
Wally Feurzeig is an inventor of the LOGO programming language, and a well-known researcher in Artificial Intelligence.
During the early 1960s, BBN had become a major center of computer science research and innovative applications. Wally Feurzeig...
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| x Peter Naur |
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ALGOL |
Peter Naur (born 25 October 1928) is a Danish pioneer in computer science and Turing award winner. His last name is the N in the BNF notation (Backus-Naur form), used in the description of the syntax for most programming languages. He contributed to...
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| ALGOL 60 | |||
| x John Backus |
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FP |
John Warner Backus (December 3, 1924 – March 17, 2007) was an American computer scientist. He directed the team that invented the first widely used high-level programming language (FORTRAN) and was the inventor of the Backus-Naur form (BNF), the...
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| FL | |||
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| x Niklaus Wirth |
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Modula |
Niklaus Emil Wirth (born February 15, 1934) is a Swiss computer scientist, best known for designing several programming languages, including Pascal, and for pioneering several classic topics in software engineering. In 1984 he won the Turing Award...
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| Oberon | |||
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| x John McCarthy |
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Lisp |
John McCarthy (September 4, 1927 – October 24, 2011) was an American computer scientist and cognitive scientist. He invented the term "artificial intelligence" (AI), developed the Lisp programming language family, significantly influenced the design...
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| x Cliff Lasser |
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*Lisp | |
| x Steve Omohundro | *Lisp | ||
| x IBM |
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PL/I |
International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE: IBM) or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it...
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| x Edward Wimmers | FL | ||
| x John Williams | FL | ||
| x Yukihiro Matsumoto |
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Ruby |
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 Norman I. Adams | T | ||
| x Jonathan A. Rees |
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T | |
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| x Short Range Committee | COBOL | ||
| x Bob Bemer | COMTRAN |
Robert William Bemer (February 8, 1920 – June 22, 2004) was a computer scientist best known for his work at IBM during the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Born in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, Bemer graduated from Cranbrook School in 1936 and took an A.B....
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| x Grace Hopper |
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FLOW-MATIC |
Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper (December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992) was an American computer scientist and United States Navy officer. A pioneer in the field, she was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, and developed the...
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| x Robert Kowalski |
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Prolog |
Robert "Bob" Anthony Kowalski (born May 15, 1941, in Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA) is a British logician and computer scientist, who has spent most of his career in the United Kingdom.
He was educated at the University of Chicago, University of...
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| x Alain Colmerauer | Prolog |
Alain Colmerauer (born 24 January 1941, Carcassonne) is a French computer scientist. After completing his Ph.D. at the University of Grenoble, he spent 1967–1970 as Assistant Professor at the University of Montreal, where he created Q-Systems, one...
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| x Ericsson |
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Erlang |
Ericsson (Telefonaktiebolaget L. M. Ericsson) (OMX: ERIC B, NASDAQ: ERIC), one of Sweden's largest companies, is a provider of telecommunication and data communication systems, and related services, covering a range of technologies, including...
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| x Guido van Rossum |
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Python |
Guido van Rossum (born 31 January 1956) 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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| x Arthur G. Snapper | SKED | ||
| x Charles H. Moore |
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Forth |
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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| ColorForth | |||
| x John George Kemeny |
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BASIC |
John George Kemeny (Hungarian: Kemény János György) (May 31, 1926 – December 26, 1992) was a Hungarian American mathematician, computer scientist, and educator best known for co-developing the BASIC programming language in 1964 with Thomas E. Kurtz....
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| Dartmouth BASIC | |||
| x Thomas Eugene Kurtz | BASIC |
Thomas Eugene Kurtz (born February 22, 1928) is an American computer scientist who co-developed the BASIC programming language during 1963 to 1964, together with John G. Kemeny.
In 1951, Dr. Kurtz’s first experience with computing came at the Summer...
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| x Guy Steele |
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Scheme |
Guy Steele is a Sun Fellow for Sun Microsystems Laboratories,
working on the Programming Language Research project. His research
interests include algorithms, compiler design, distributed systems,
floating-point arithmetic, Fortress, functional...
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| Common Lisp | |||
| Fortress programming language | |||
| x Scott Fahlman | Common Lisp | ||
| x David Moon | Common Lisp |
David A. Moon is a programmer and computer scientist, known for his work on the Lisp programming language and being one of the founders of Symbolics.
David Moon is a character in A Story About ‘Magic', a popular tale in hacker folklore that...
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| x Daniel Weinreb | Common Lisp | ||
| x Nick Thompson |
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mjt | |
| x Rasmus Lerdorf |
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PHP |
Rasmus Lerdorf (born 22 November 1968 in Qeqertarsuaq, Greenland) is a Danish programmer with Canadian citizenship and is most notable as the creator of the PHP scripting language. He authored the first two versions. Lerdorf also participated in the...
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| x Walter Bright |
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D |
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 C++ compiler that translated directly to object without going via C, Zortech C++ (later to become Symantec...
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| x Donald D. Chamberlin | SQL |
Donald D. Chamberlin (born in 1944) is an American computer scientist who is best known as one of the principal designers of the original SQL language specification with Raymond Boyce. He also made significant contributions to the development of...
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| x Raymond F. Boyce | SQL | ||
| x James Gosling |
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Java |
James A. Gosling, OC (born May 19, 1955 near Calgary, Alberta, Canada) is a computer scientist, best known as the father of the Java programming language.
In 1977, Gosling received a B.Sc in Computer Science from the University of Calgary. In 1983,...
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| x Fredrik Hübinette | Pike | ||
| x Lars Pensjö | LPC |
Lars Pensjö of Sweden is the original author of the LPMud MUD engine and the LPC programming language, and is one of the founders of Genesis LPMud, notable for their part in the history of MMORPGs as well as the Pike programming language. He...
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| x Mike Cowlishaw |
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REXX |
Mike Cowlishaw is a retired IBM Fellow, a Visiting Professor at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Warwick, and is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (roughly the equivalent of the NAE in the USA), the Institute of...
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| NetRexx | |||
| x Ron Gilbert |
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Ron Gilbert (born January 1, 1964) 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...
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| x ARTech |
Company Background ARTech’s Mission & Beliefs
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| x Simon Peyton Jones |
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Haskell |
Simon Peyton Jones (born in South Africa on 18 January 1958) is a British computer scientist who researches the implementation and applications of functional programming languages, particularly lazy functional programming. He is an honorary...
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| x Leo Geurts | ABC | ||
| x Lambert Meertens | ABC |
Lambert Guillaume Louis Théodore Meertens (born 1944) is a Dutch computer scientist and professor.
While still a student at the Ignatius Gymnasium in Amsterdam, Meertens designed a computer, together with his classmate Kees Koster.
In the 1960s,...
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| x Steven Pemberton |
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ABC |
Steven Pemberton (born February 19, 1953) is one of the developers of the ABC programming language and of the Views system.
He is chair of the W3C XHTML2 and XForms Working Groups and also member of RDFa Taskforce.
Pemberton was editor-in-chief of...
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| x Larry Wall |
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Perl |
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 grew up in south Los Angeles and then Bremerton, Washington before starting higher education at...
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| x Gerald Jay Sussman |
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Scheme |
Gerald Jay Sussman (February 8, 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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| MDL programming language | |||
| x Anders Hejlsberg |
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C# |
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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| Object Pascal | |||
| x Xavier Leroy | Caml |
Xavier Leroy (born March 15, 1968) is a French computer scientist and programmer. He is best known for his role as a primary developer of the Objective Caml system. He is senior scientist (directeur de recherche) at the French government research...
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| x Robin Milner | ML |
Arthur John Robin Gorell Milner FRS FRSE (Robin Milner or A.J.R.G. Milner, born 13 January 1934 near Plymouth, died 20 March 2010 in Cambridge) was a prominent British computer scientist.
Milner was born in Yealmpton, near Plymouth, England into a...
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| x Damien Doligez |
Damien Doligez is a French academic and programmer. He is best known for his role as a developer of the OCaml system, especially its garbage collector. He is research scientist (chargé de recherche) at the French government research institution...
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| x Jérôme Vouillon | |||
| x Brendan Eich |
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JavaScript |
Brendan Eich ( /ˈaɪk/; born 1961) is a computer programmer and creator of the JavaScript scripting language. He is the chief technology officer at the Mozilla Corporation.
Brendan Eich received his bachelor's degree in math and computer science at...
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| ECMAScript | |||
| x Linden Lab |
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Linden Scripting Language |
Linden Lab was founded in 1999 by Philip Rosedale to create a revolutionary new form of shared experience, where individuals jointly inhabit a 3D landscape and build the world around them. Today this experience, known as Second...
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| x Roberto Ierusalimschy | Lua |
Roberto Ierusalimschy is an associate professor of informatics at PUC-Rio (Pontifical University in Rio de Janeiro). He is the leading architect of the Lua programming language and the author of Programming in Lua (ISBN 85-903798-1-7) and...
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