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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Michael Abrash
Computer Programmer
?   Graphics Programming Black Book
Scott Adams
Computer Programmer
c. 1954   Adventureland
Howard Aiken
Physicist
8-Mar-1900 14-Mar-1973 Designer of early computers
Gene Amdahl
Engineer
16-Nov-1922   Parallel computing pioneer
Marc Andreessen
Computer Programmer
26-Apr-1971   Co-Founder of Netscape
Bill Atkinson
Computer Programmer
1951   Creator of HyperCard, QuickDraw, MacPaint
Ed Averett
Computer Programmer
?   Prolific Odyssey 2 game programmer
John Backus
Computer Programmer
3-Dec-1924 17-Mar-2007 Inventor of BNF, led FORTRAN team
Richard A. Bartle
Computer Programmer
10-Jan-1960   MUD
Brian Behlendorf
Computer Programmer
30-Mar-1973   Author of Apache web server
Tim Berners-Lee
Computer Programmer
8-Jun-1955   Inventor of the World Wide Web
Daniel J. Bernstein
Computer Programmer
29-Oct-1971   Bernstein v. United States
Danielle Berry
Computer Programmer
19-Feb-1949 3-Jul-1998 Transsexual designer of M.U.L.E.
Marc Blank
Computer Programmer
1954   Programmer behind Zork
James Blinn
Computer Programmer
c. 1948   3D computer imaging pioneer
Grady Booch
Computer Programmer
27-Feb-1955   Unified Modeling Language
Steve Bourne
Computer Programmer
?   /bin/sh
Tim Bray
Computer Programmer
21-Jun-1955   Co-Inventor of XML
Fred Brooks
Computer Programmer
19-Apr-1931   Father of the IBM System 360
Bill Budge
Computer Programmer
c. 1954   Programmed Raster Blaster
Orkut Buyukkokten
Computer Programmer
6-Feb-1976   Designed Google's Orkut social network
Steve Capps
Computer Programmer
?   Apple Newton, SoundEdit
John Carmack
Computer Programmer
20-Aug-1970   Lead programmer of Doom, Quake
Steve Cartwright
Computer Programmer
c. 1955   Barnstorming, Seaquest, Frostbite
Ed Catmull
Business
31-Mar-1945   Pixar Co-Founder, Disney Animation president
Vint Cerf
Scientist
23-Jun-1943   Co-Designed Internet's TCP-IP protocol
Kit Clayton
Electronic Musician
1974   Orthlorng Musork
Bram Cohen
Computer Programmer
1975   Creator of BitTorrent
Alan Cox
Computer Programmer
22-Jul-1968   Linux kernel developer
David Crane
Computer Programmer
c. 1954   Pitfall!, Freeway
Chris Crawford
Computer Programmer
c. 1950   Balance of Power
Ward Cunningham
Computer Programmer
26-May-1949   Wiki inventor
Dave Cutler
Computer Programmer
13-Mar-1942   Father of Windows NT
Don Daglow
Computer Programmer
c. 1953   Utopia for the Intellivision
Theo de Raadt
Computer Programmer
19-May-1968   Developer of OpenBSD operating system
John Diebold
Author
8-Jun-1926 26-Dec-2005 Advocate of automation
Edsger Dijkstra
Computer Programmer
11-May-1930 6-Aug-2002 Enemy of the goto statement
Bruce Eckel
Computer Programmer
8-Jul-1957   Thinking in Java
John Presper Eckert
Computer Programmer
9-Apr-1919 3-Jun-1995 ENIAC, BINAC, and UNIVAC I computers
Wallace J. Eckert
Astronomer
19-Jun-1902 24-Aug-1971 First scientist hired by IBM
Brendan Eich
Computer Programmer
1961   Invented JavaScript for Netscape
Taher Elgamal
Computer Programmer
18-Aug-1955   Inventor of the Elgamal crypto algorithm
Jim Ellis
Computer Programmer
c. 1956 28-Jun-2001 Usenet co-creator
Doug Engelbart
Computer Programmer
30-Jan-1925   Pioneer of human-computer interaction
Shawn Fanning
Computer Programmer
22-Nov-1980   Founded the Napster mp3 free-for-all
Dan Farmer
Computer Programmer
5-Apr-1962   Cowrote SATAN security auditing tool
Ed Felten
Computer Programmer
25-Mar-1963   Broke SDMI
Chuck Forsberg
Computer Programmer
c. 1944   Creator of ZMODEM
Martin Fowler
Computer Programmer
?   Manifesto For Agile Software Development
Bob Frankston
Computer Programmer
14-Jun-1949   Programmer of Visicalc
Tod Frye
Computer Programmer
c. 1955   Ported Pac-Man to the Atari 2600
Rob Fulop
Computer Programmer
c. 1958   Demon Attack, Cosmic Ark
Erich Gamma
Computer Programmer
1961   Design Patterns
Bill Gates
Business
28-Oct-1955   Co-Founder of Microsoft
John Giannandrea
Computer Programmer
?   Chief Technology Officer at Tellme
Steve Gibson
Computer Programmer
c. 1955   Computer industry gadfly
Marc Goodman
Computer Programmer
?   The Bilestoad
Dan Gorlin
Computer Programmer
c. 1956   Choplifter
Ronald Graham
Mathematician
31-Oct-1935   Mathematician, Computer Scientist
Philip Greenspun
Computer Programmer
28-Sep-1963   ArsDigita, Photo.net
Virgil Griffith
Computer Programmer
6-Mar-1983   Author of WikiScanner
Bathsheba Grossman
Sculptor
1966   Mathematical sculptor
Scott Hassan
Computer Programmer
c. 1970   eGroups, Willow Garage
Matthew Haughey
Blogger
10-Oct-1972   MetaFilter, PVRblog
Jeff Hawkins
Inventor
1-Jun-1957   Inventor of the Palm Pilot and Treo
Martin Hellman
Inventor
2-Oct-1945   Public key cryptographer
Keith Henson
Victim
1942   Scientology Victim
Andy Hertzfeld
Computer Programmer
6-Apr-1953   Macintosh designer
Starr Roxanne Hiltz
Sociologist
c. 1943   Mother of on-line education
Grace Murray Hopper
Computer Programmer
9-Dec-1906 1-Jan-1992 Computer programming pioneer
Randall Hyde
Computer Programmer
c. 1960   Art of Assembly Language
Miguel de Icaza
Computer Programmer
c. 1973   Founder of Gnome project
Eugene Jarvis
Computer Programmer
1955   Defender, Robotron, Smash TV
Tom Jennings
Computer Programmer
1955   Author of FidoNet BBS protocols
Jon Johansen
Computer Programmer
18-Nov-1983   Wrote the DeCSS program to decrypt DVDs
Bill Joy
Computer Programmer
8-Nov-1954   BSD designer, C shell, vi, Java
Isamu Kaneko
Computer Programmer
c. 1971   Mr. 47, developed WinNY p2p program
Larry Kaplan
Computer Programmer
c. 1952   Kaboom!
Phil Karlton
Computer Programmer
28-Feb-1947 20-Jun-1997 Netscape Principal Curmudgeon
Phil Katz
Computer Programmer
3-Nov-1962 14-Apr-2000 Creator of PKZIP
Alan Kay
Computer Programmer
17-May-1940   Father of Object-Oriented Programming
Brian Kernighan
Computer Programmer
1942   The C Programming Language, awk
Garry Kitchen
Computer Programmer
c. 1958   Keystone Capers
Donald E. Knuth
Computer Programmer
10-Jan-1938   The Art of Computer Programming
Kai Krause
Computer Programmer
1957   Kai's Power Tools
Patrick Kroupa
Author
20-Jan-1968   Lord Digital of LOD, Mindvox
Ray Kurzweil
Inventor
12-Feb-1948   Age of Spiritual Machines
Dave Lebling
Computer Programmer
30-Oct-1949   Co-Founder of Infocom, helped write Zork
Rasmus Lerdorf
Computer Programmer
22-Nov-1968   Creator of PHP programming language
Lord British
Computer Programmer
4-Jul-1961   Ultima series creator
Ada Lovelace
Mathematician
10-Dec-1815 27-Nov-1852 Programmed the (theoretical) difference engine
Steve Maguire
Computer Programmer
?   Writing Solid Code
Yukihiro Matsumoto
Computer Programmer
14-Apr-1965   Creator of Ruby programming language
John McCarthy
Computer Programmer
4-Sep-1927 24-Oct-2011 Created LISP programming language
Steve McConnell
Computer Programmer
c. 1963   Author of Code Complete
Sid Meier
Computer Programmer
1954   Father of Computer Gaming
Steve Meretzky
Computer Programmer
1-May-1957   Leather Goddesses of Phobos
Alan Miller
Computer Programmer
?   Robot Tank, Surround
Lou Montulli
Computer Programmer
c. 1971   Invented BLINK tag, wrote Lynx browser
Charles H. Moore
Computer Programmer
1938   Forth programming language
Robert Morris, Jr.
Computer Programmer
8-Nov-1965   Author of 1988 Huge Internet Worm
Craig Mundie
Business
c. 1949   CTO of Microsoft
Mike Muuss
Computer Programmer
16-Oct-1958 20-Nov-2000 Ping
Graham Nelson
Computer Programmer
c. 1968   Created Inform programming language
Ted Nelson
Computer Programmer
17-Jun-1937   Hypertext pioneer, Xanadu
Craig Newmark
Computer Programmer
2-Dec-1952   Founder, Craigslist
Peter Norton
Computer Programmer
14-Nov-1943   Retired computer utilities programmer
Ray Ozzie
Computer Programmer
20-Nov-1955   Microsoft Chief Software Architect
Alexey Pajitnov
Computer Programmer
c. 1956   Helped invent Tetris
Drazen Pantic
Activist
1956   Micromedia activist
Seymour Papert
Computer Programmer
1-Mar-1928   Programming language LOGO
Tom Paquin
Computer Programmer
?   Netscape Fellow
Ken Perlin
Scientist
c. 1957   Perlin noise
Charles Petzold
Computer Programmer
2-Feb-1953   Windows programming guru
Marcus Ranum
Computer Programmer
5-Nov-1962   Tenable Network Security
Jef Raskin
Computer Programmer
9-Mar-1943 26-Feb-2005 Designed Macintosh human interface
Eric S. Raymond
Computer Programmer
4-Dec-1957   The New Hacker's Dictionary
Hans Reiser
Computer Programmer
19-Dec-1963   ReiserFS
Dennis Ritchie
Computer Programmer
9-Sep-1941 12-Oct-2011 Co-Creator of UNIX
Ron Rivest
Computer Programmer
1947   The R in RSA
Warren Robinett
Computer Programmer
c. 1951   Atari 2600 game Adventure
John Romero
Computer Programmer
28-Oct-1967   Doom, Quake, Daikatana
Aviel Rubin
Computer Programmer
8-Nov-1967   Computer security expert at Johns Hopkins
Rudy Rucker
Novelist
22-Mar-1946   Author of Wetware series
Mark Russinovich
Computer Programmer
c. 1966   Microsoft Windows Internals
Hironobu Sakaguchi
Computer Programmer
14-Nov-1962   Created Final Fantasy videogame series
Bruce Schneier
Computer Programmer
15-Jan-1964   Applied Cryptography
Robert Sedgewick
Computer Programmer
c. 1946   Algorithms
Adi Shamir
Mathematician
1952   The S in RSA
Carol Shaw
Computer Programmer
?   River Raid
Bruce Shelley
Computer Programmer
?   Created computer game Age of Empires
Tsutomu Shimomura
Physicist
23-Oct-1964   Helped catch Kevin Mitnick
Wil Shipley
Computer Programmer
16-Oct-1969   The Omni Group, Delicious Monster
Charles Simonyi
Computer Programmer
10-Sep-1948   Hungarian notation
Rich Skrenta
Computer Programmer
1967   First PC virus, Elk Cloner
Gene Spafford
Computer Programmer
c. 1957   Spaf
Mark Spencer
Computer Programmer
8-Apr-1977   Creator of Asterisk
Richard Stallman
Computer Programmer
16-Mar-1953   Founder, GNU software project
Bjarne Stroustrup
Computer Programmer
1950   Inventor of C++ programming language
Aaron Swartz
Computer Programmer
1986   Co-Inventor of RSS
Andrew Tanenbaum
Computer Programmer
16-Mar-1944   Creator of Minix
Brad Templeton
Computer Programmer
1960   Chairman, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Andrey Ternovskiy
Computer Programmer
c. 1992   Chatroulette
Ken Thompson
Computer Programmer
4-Feb-1943   Co-creator of UNIX
Peter Tippett
Computer Programmer
c. 1953   Antivirus software pioneer
Linus Torvalds
Computer Programmer
28-Dec-1969   Created the kernel for the GNU/Linux OS
Roy Trubshaw
Computer Programmer
?   MUD
Alan Turing
Mathematician
23-Jun-1912 7-Jun-1954 Computing pioneer
Guido van Rossum
Computer Programmer
?   Created Python programming language
Wietse Venema
Computer Programmer
1951   SATAN, tcpwrappers, postfix
John Vlissides
Computer Programmer
2-Aug-1961 24-Nov-2005 Author number 4 of the Gang of Four
Larry Wall
Computer Programmer
27-Sep-1954   Creator of Perl programming language
Silas Warner
Computer Programmer
18-Aug-1949 26-Feb-2004 Castle Wolfenstein
John Warnock
Computer Programmer
6-Oct-1940   Co-Founder of Adobe
Joseph Weizenbaum
Computer Programmer
8-Jan-1923 5-Mar-2008 ELIZA
Bob Whitehead
Computer Programmer
?   Chopper Command, Stampede
Dave Winer
Computer Programmer
2-May-1955   Co-Creator of RSS, Scripting News
Niklaus Wirth
Computer Programmer
15-Feb-1934   Inventor of Pascal, Modula-2
Stephen Wolfram
Mathematician
29-Aug-1959   Creator of Mathematica
Steve Wozniak
Computer Programmer
11-Aug-1950   Co-Founder of Apple Computer
Will Wright
Computer Programmer
20-Jan-1960   Created SimCity, The Sims
Jamie Zawinski
Computer Programmer
3-Nov-1968   Netscape geek and SF club owner
Phil Zimmermann
Computer Programmer
12-Feb-1954   Creator of PGP
Mark Zuckerberg
Business
14-May-1984   Founder of Facebook
Konrad Zuse
Engineer
22-Jun-1910 18-Dec-1995 Built first Turing-complete computer



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