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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 computer scientist most notable for developing the C++ programming language. He is currently Professor and holder of the College of...
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| x Dennis Ritchie |
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C |
Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie (username: dmr, born September 9, 1941) is an American computer scientist notable for his influence on C and other programming languages, and on operating systems such as Multics and Unix. He received the Turing Award in...
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| 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, HKEX: 4338) is a multinational computer technology corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of software products for computing devices. Headquartered in Redmond, Washington,...
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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. He is the president of the Viewpoints Research Institute, and an...
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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 October 25, 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...
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| x John Backus |
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FP |
For the physicist, see John Backus (acoustician)
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...
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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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| x John McCarthy |
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Lisp |
John McCarthy (born September 4, 1927, in Boston, Massachusetts), is an American computer scientist and cognitive scientist who received the Turing Award in 1971 for his major contributions to the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). He was...
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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, abbreviated IBM, is a multinational computer technology and IT consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, Town of North Castle, New York, United States. The company is one of the few information...
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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 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 Robert Kowalski | Prolog |
Robert "Bob" Anthony Kowalski (born May 15, 1941, in Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA) is a logician and computer scientist, of Polish descent, who has spent most of his career in the United Kingdom.
He was educated at the University of Chicago,...
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| x Alain Colmerauer | Prolog |
Alain Colmerauer (born 24 January 1941) 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 of the...
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| x Ericsson |
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Erlang |
Ericsson (Telefonaktiebolaget L. M. Ericsson) (OMX: ERIC B, NASDAQ: ERIC), one of the largest Swedish companies, is a leading provider of telecommunication and data communication systems, and related services covering a range of technologies,...
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| x Guido van Rossum |
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Python |
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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| 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 | BASIC |
John George Kemeny (Hungarian: Kemény János György) (May 31, 1926, Budapest–December 26, 1992, New Hampshire), was a Hungarian-American mathematician, computer scientist, and educator best known for co-developing the BASIC programming language in...
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| x Thomas Eugene Kurtz | BASIC |
Thomas Eugene Kurtz (born February 22, 1928) is an American computer scientist who co-developed the BASIC programming language in 1963/64 together with John George 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 related topics.
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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 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 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 native C++ compiler, Zortech C++ (later to become Symantec C++, now Digital Mars C++). Before the C++...
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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, 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 Fredrik Hübinette | Pike | ||
| x Lars Pensjö | LPC |
Lars Pensjö of Sweden is the original author of the LPMud MUD engine and one of the founders of Genesis LPMud, notable for their part in the history of MMORPGs as well as the Pike programming language . He attended Chalmers University of Technology...
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| x Mike Cowlishaw |
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REXX |
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 Ron Gilbert |
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SCUMM |
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 ARTech | GeneXus |
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 January 18, 1958 ) is a British computer scientist who researches the implementation and applications of functional programming languages, particularly lazy functional languages. He is an honorary...
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| x Leo Geurts | ABC | ||
| x Lambert Meertens | ABC |
Lambert Meertens (born 1944) is a Dutch computer scientist and professor.
In the 1960s, Meertens applied affix grammars to the description and composition of music, and obtained a special prize from the jury at the 1968 IFIP Congress in Edinburgh...
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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 earned his bachelor's degree from Seattle Pacific University in 1976.
While in graduate school at UC...
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| x Gerald Jay Sussman |
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Scheme |
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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| 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 | Objective 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 |
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ML |
Arthur John Robin Gorell Milner FRS FRSE (Robin Milner or A.J.R.G. Milner, born 13 January 1934 near Plymouth) is a prominent British computer scientist.
Milner was born in Yealmpton, near Plymouth, England into a military family. He was awarded a...
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| x Damien Doligez | Objective Caml |
Damien Doligez is a French academic and programmer. He is best known for his role as a developer of the Objective Caml system, especially its garbage collector. He is research scientist (chargé de recherche) at the French government research...
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| x Didier Rémy | Objective Caml | ||
| x Jérôme Vouillon | Objective Caml | ||
| x Brendan Eich |
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JavaScript |
Brendan Eich (pronounced /ˈаɪk/) (born 1961) is a computer programmer and creator of the JavaScript programming language. He is the Chief Technology Officer at the Mozilla Corporation.
Brendan Eich received his bachelor's degree in math and computer...
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| 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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