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Software Engineering

Software engineering is the application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation, and maintenance of software, and the study of these approaches; that is, the application of engineering to software. The term software engineering first appeared in the 1968...
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Linus Torvalds

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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  • Dec 28, 1969 (age 40 years)

Hans Reiser

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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  • Dec 19, 1963 (age 46 years)

Marcelo Tosatti

Marcelo Wormsbecker Tosatti is a Linux kernel developer. He became the maintainer of the stable 2.4 kernel series in November 2001 when he was 18 years old, replacing Alan Cox. He released stable version 2.4.16 on November 26, and ultimately passed...

Date of birth:

  • 1983 (age 27 years)

Brad Templeton

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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  • Apr 20, 1960 (age 49 years)

Robert Love

Robert M. Love (born c. 1981) is an American author, speaker, Google engineer, and open source software developer. Love is best known for his contributions to the Linux kernel, with notable work including the preemptive kernel, process scheduler,...

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  • Sep 25, 1981 (age 28 years)

Ken Jennings

Kenneth Wayne "Ken" Jennings III (born May 23, 1974) holds the record for the longest winning streak on the U.S. syndicated game show Jeopardy! and, as of October 10, 2008, once again became the all-time leading money winner on American game shows....

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  • May 23, 1974 (age 35 years)

Steve Gibson

Steve Gibson (born March 26, 1955, Dayton Ohio) is a computer enthusiast, software engineer and security researcher who studied EECS at the UC Berkeley. Gibson currently lives in Laguna Hills, California. In 1985, Gibson founded Gibson Research...

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  • Mar 26, 1955 (age 54 years)

Frédéric Lepied

Frédéric Lepied (born 1967) is a French computer engineer, and was the CTO of Mandriva until January 2006. Lepied is a graduate of the ESIEE engineering school in France. Frédéric Lepied joined the Mandrakesoft Research and Development team in 1999....

Date of birth:

  • 1967 (age 43 years)

Tommy Rettig

Thomas Noel Rettig, more familiarly Tommy Rettig or, as an adult, Tom Rettig, (December 10, 1941 – February 15, 1996) was an American child actor and computer software engineer and author. Rettig is best remembered for having portrayed the character...

Date of birth:

  • Dec 10, 1941

Date of death:

  • Feb 15, 1996 (age 54 years)

H. Peter Anvin

Hans Peter Anvin, known as H. Peter Anvin, or simply Peter Anvin, or even hpa, is a Swedish computer programmer who has distinguished himself by his contributions to Free and open source software projects. He is the originator of SYSLINUX, klibc,...

Ludvig Strigeus

Ludvig Strigeus (ludde) is a Swedish programmer best known for developing software such as the BitTorrent client µTorrent, OpenTTD, and ScummVM. He has a Master of Science in Computer Science and Engineering degree from Chalmers University of...

Date of birth:

  • 1981 (age 29 years)

Michael Kay

Michael H. Kay (born 11 October 1951) is the editor of the W3C specification of the XSLT 2.0 language for performing XML transformations, and the developer of the Saxon XSLT and XQuery processing software. He is a graduate of Trinity College,...

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  • Oct 11, 1951 (age 58 years)

Carsten Haitzler

Carsten Haitzler (born 1975), known as Raster or Rasterman to the open source community, is an Australian/German (his father is German and his mother is Finnish) software engineer best known for initiating and leading the development of the...

Date of birth:

  • Nov 29, 1975 (age 34 years)

Cody Brocious

Cody Brocious is an American software engineer best known for his work on PyMusique. Cody William Brocious was born in Waukegan, Illinois, the son of a Naval Drug and Alcohol counselor. He moved to Chambersburg, Pennsylvania at the age of 3 and...

Anthony James Barr

Anthony James Barr, aka Tony Barr or Jim Barr (born 1940) is an American programming language designer, software engineer, and inventor. Among his notable contributions are the Statistical Analysis System (SAS), automated lumber yield optimization,...

Date of birth:

  • 1940 (age 70 years)

Stuart Parmenter

Date of birth:

  • May 1981 (age 28 years)

Bobby Rullo

Date of birth:

  • Sep 15, 1974 (age 35 years)

Steve McIntyre

Steve McIntyre is a software engineer and a long-time Debian developer. His best known contributions have been in the field of creating Debian CD/DVD images; he is the debian-cd team leader and is responsible for generating the official images....

Date of birth:

  • May 28, 1974 (age 35 years)

Jens Axboe

Jens Axboe is a Linux kernel hacker. He is the current Linux kernel maintainer of the block layer and other block devices, along with contributing the CFQ I/O scheduler, Noop scheduler, Deadline scheduler and splice (system call) IO architecture....

Date of birth:

  • 1976 (age 34 years)

Thomas Sterling

Dr. Thomas Sterling is currently a Professor of Computer Science at Louisiana State University, a Faculty Associate at California Institute of Technology, and a Distinguished Visiting Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He received his PhD...

Timothy Fisher

Date of birth:

  • Oct 18, 1968 (age 41 years)

Thomas Knoll

Thomas Knoll is an American software engineer, who was raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan and best known (with his brother John Knoll) for initiating the development of Photoshop. He was the lead developer until version CS4 (11). His current...

Brian Karlak

Date of birth:

  • Mar 4, 1970 (age 39 years)

Stephane Fellah

Date of birth:

  • Aug 15, 1969 (age 40 years)

Piercarlo Slavazza

Date of birth:

  • Mar 1976 (age 33 years)

Camille Roux

Computer engineer living in Sophia Antipolis, France

Date of birth:

  • Feb 9, 1985 (age 24 years)

Chris Eppstein

Date of birth:

  • Dec 8, 1975 (age 34 years)

Daniel Park

Date of birth:

  • Nov 5, 1973 (age 36 years)

Brian Warboys

Brian Warboys (born 30 April 1942), was Professor of Software Engineering at the University of Manchester from 1985 until he retired in September 2007. He was subsequently appointed as Professor Emeritus and continues to undertake research. Before...

Date of birth:

  • Apr 30, 1942 (age 67 years)

Nathan Wilson

Date of birth:

  • Dec 5, 1963 (age 46 years)

Brady Wiseman

Brady Wiseman is a Democratic Party member of the Montana House of Representatives, representing District 65 since 2004. He led the House in opposition to the USA PATRIOT Act as invasive of privacy and a threat to civil liberties, and has fought the...

Date of birth:

  • 1957 (age 53 years)

Biz Stone

Isaac "Biz" Stone is a co-founder and Creative Director of Twitter, Inc and also helped to create and launch Xanga, Blogger, Odeo, and Obvious. He has published two books about blogging, Blogging: Genius Strategies for Instant Web Content (New...

Daniel Francis Bloy

Date of birth:

  • Jan 2, 1978 (age 32 years)

Ricardo Niederberger Cabral

Software engineer based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Viral Shah

Date of birth:

  • Nov 4, 1982 (age 27 years)
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