| NAME |
OCCUPATION |
SUMMARY |
BORN |
DIED |
|
| Michael Abrash
|
Computer Programmer |
Graphics Programming Black Book |
? |
TBD |
|
| Scott Adams
|
Computer Programmer |
Adventureland |
1954 |
TBD |
|
| Marc Andreessen
|
Computer Programmer |
Co-Founder of Netscape |
26-Apr-1971 |
TBD |
|
| Bill Atkinson
|
Computer Programmer |
Creator of HyperCard, QuickDraw, MacPaint |
1951 |
TBD |
|
| Ed Averett
|
Computer Programmer |
Prolific Odyssey 2 game programmer |
? |
TBD |
|
John Backus
|
Computer Programmer |
Inventor of BNF, led FORTRAN team |
03-Dec-1924 |
17-Mar-2007 |
DEAD
|
| Richard A. Bartle
|
Computer Programmer |
MUD |
10-Jan-1960 |
TBD |
|
| Brian Behlendorf
|
Computer Programmer |
Author of Apache web server |
30-Mar-1973 |
TBD |
|
| Tim Berners-Lee
|
Computer Programmer |
Inventor of the World Wide Web |
08-Jun-1955 |
TBD |
|
| Daniel J. Bernstein
|
Computer Programmer |
Bernstein v. United States |
29-Oct-1971 |
TBD |
|
Danielle Berry
|
Computer Programmer |
Transsexual designer of M.U.L.E. |
19-Feb-1949 |
03-Jul-1998 |
DEAD
|
| Marc Blank
|
Computer Programmer |
Programmer behind Zork |
1954 |
TBD |
|
| James Blinn
|
Computer Programmer |
3D computer imaging pioneer |
1948 |
TBD |
|
| Grady Booch
|
Computer Programmer |
Unified Modeling Language |
27-Feb-1955 |
TBD |
|
| Steve Bourne
|
Computer Programmer |
/bin/sh |
? |
TBD |
|
| Tim Bray
|
Computer Programmer |
Co-Inventor of XML |
21-Jun-1955 |
TBD |
|
| Bill Budge
|
Computer Programmer |
Programmed Raster Blaster |
1954 |
TBD |
|
| Orkut Buyukkokten
|
Computer Programmer |
Designed Google's Orkut social network |
06-Feb-1976 |
TBD |
|
| Steve Capps
|
Computer Programmer |
Apple Newton, SoundEdit |
? |
TBD |
|
| John Carmack
|
Computer Programmer |
Lead programmer of Doom, Quake |
20-Aug-1970 |
TBD |
|
| Steve Cartwright
|
Computer Programmer |
Barnstorming, Seaquest, Frostbite |
1955 |
TBD |
|
| Bram Cohen
|
Computer Programmer |
Creator of BitTorrent |
1975 |
TBD |
|
| Alan Cox
|
Computer Programmer |
Linux kernel developer |
1968 |
TBD |
|
| David Crane
|
Computer Programmer |
Pitfall!, Freeway |
1954 |
TBD |
|
| Chris Crawford
|
Computer Programmer |
Balance of Power |
1950 |
TBD |
|
| Dave Cutler
|
Computer Programmer |
Father of Windows NT |
13-Mar-1942 |
TBD |
|
| Don Daglow
|
Computer Programmer |
Utopia for the Intellivision |
1953 |
TBD |
|
| Theo de Raadt
|
Computer Programmer |
Developer of OpenBSD operating system |
19-May-1968 |
TBD |
|
Edsger Dijkstra
|
Computer Programmer |
Enemy of the goto statement |
11-May-1930 |
06-Aug-2002 |
DEAD
|
| Bruce Eckel
|
Computer Programmer |
Thinking in Java |
08-Jul-1957 |
TBD |
|
| Brendan Eich
|
Computer Programmer |
Invented JavaScript for Netscape |
1961 |
TBD |
|
| Taher Elgamal
|
Computer Programmer |
Inventor of the Elgamal crypto algorithm |
18-Aug-1955 |
TBD |
|
Jim Ellis
|
Computer Programmer |
Usenet co-creator |
1956 |
28-Jun-2001 |
DEAD
|
| Shawn Fanning
|
Computer Programmer |
Founded the Napster mp3 free-for-all |
22-Nov-1980 |
TBD |
|
| Dan Farmer
|
Computer Programmer |
Cowrote SATAN security auditing tool |
05-Apr-1962 |
TBD |
|
| Ed Felten
|
Computer Programmer |
Broke SDMI |
25-Mar-1963 |
TBD |
|
| Chuck Forsberg
|
Computer Programmer |
Creator of ZMODEM |
1944 |
TBD |
|
| Martin Fowler
|
Computer Programmer |
Manifesto For Agile Software Development |
? |
TBD |
|
| Bob Frankston
|
Computer Programmer |
Programmer of Visicalc |
14-Jun-1949 |
TBD |
|
| Tod Frye
|
Computer Programmer |
Ported Pac-Man to the Atari 2600 |
1955 |
TBD |
|
| Rob Fulop
|
Computer Programmer |
Demon Attack, Cosmic Ark |
1958 |
TBD |
|
| Erich Gamma
|
Computer Programmer |
Design Patterns |
1961 |
TBD |
|
| John Giannandrea
|
Computer Programmer |
Chief Technology Officer at Tellme |
? |
TBD |
|
| Steve Gibson
|
Computer Programmer |
Computer industry gadfly |
1955 |
TBD |
|
| Marc Goodman
|
Computer Programmer |
The Bilestoad |
? |
TBD |
|
| Dan Gorlin
|
Computer Programmer |
Choplifter |
1956 |
TBD |
|
| Philip Greenspun
|
Computer Programmer |
ArsDigita, Photo.net |
28-Sep-1963 |
TBD |
|
| Virgil Griffith
|
Computer Programmer |
Author of WikiScanner |
06-Mar-1983 |
TBD |
|
| Scott Hassan
|
Computer Programmer |
eGroups, Willow Garage |
1970 |
TBD |
|
| Andy Hertzfeld
|
Computer Programmer |
Macintosh designer |
06-Apr-1953 |
TBD |
|
Grace Murray Hopper
|
Computer Programmer |
Invented the COBOL compiler |
09-Dec-1906 |
01-Jan-1992 |
DEAD
|
| Randall Hyde
|
Computer Programmer |
Art of Assembly Language |
1960 |
TBD |
|
| Miguel de Icaza
|
Computer Programmer |
Founder of Gnome project |
1973 |
TBD |
|
| Eugene Jarvis
|
Computer Programmer |
Defender, Robotron, Smash TV |
1955 |
TBD |
|
| Jon Johansen
|
Computer Programmer |
Wrote the DeCSS program to decrypt DVDs |
18-Nov-1983 |
TBD |
|
| Bill Joy
|
Computer Programmer |
BSD designer, C shell, vi, Java |
08-Nov-1954 |
TBD |
|
| Isamu Kaneko
|
Computer Programmer |
Mr. 47, developed WinNY p2p program |
1971 |
TBD |
|
| Larry Kaplan
|
Computer Programmer |
Kaboom! |
1952 |
TBD |
|
Phil Karlton
|
Computer Programmer |
Netscape Principal Curmudgeon |
28-Feb-1947 |
20-Jun-1997 |
DEAD
|
Phil Katz
|
Computer Programmer |
Creator of PKZIP |
03-Nov-1962 |
14-Apr-2000 |
DEAD
|
| Alan Kay
|
Computer Programmer |
Father of Object-Oriented Programming |
17-May-1940 |
TBD |
|
| Brian Kernighan
|
Computer Programmer |
The C Programming Language, awk |
1942 |
TBD |
|
| Garry Kitchen
|
Computer Programmer |
Keystone Capers |
1958 |
TBD |
|
| Donald E. Knuth
|
Computer Programmer |
The Art of Computer Programming |
10-Jan-1938 |
TBD |
|
| Kai Krause
|
Computer Programmer |
Kai's Power Tools |
1957 |
TBD |
|
| Dave Lebling
|
Computer Programmer |
Co-founder of Infocom, helped write Zork |
1950 |
TBD |
|
| Rasmus Lerdorf
|
Computer Programmer |
Creator of PHP programming language |
22-Nov-1968 |
TBD |
|
| Lord British
|
Computer Programmer |
Ultima series creator |
04-Jul-1961 |
TBD |
|
| Steve Maguire
|
Computer Programmer |
Writing Solid Code |
? |
TBD |
|
| Yukihiro Matsumoto
|
Computer Programmer |
Creator of Ruby programming language |
1965 |
TBD |
|
| John McCarthy
|
Computer Programmer |
Created LISP programming language |
04-Sep-1927 |
TBD |
|
| Steve McConnell
|
Computer Programmer |
Author of Code Complete |
1963 |
TBD |
|
| Sid Meier
|
Computer Programmer |
Father of Computer Gaming |
1954 |
TBD |
|
| Steve Meretzky
|
Computer Programmer |
Leather Goddesses of Phobos |
01-May-1957 |
TBD |
|
| Alan Miller
|
Computer Programmer |
Robot Tank, Surround |
? |
TBD |
|
| Lou Montulli
|
Computer Programmer |
Invented BLINK tag, wrote Lynx browser |
1971 |
TBD |
|
| Charles H. Moore
|
Computer Programmer |
Forth programming language |
1938 |
TBD |
|
| Robert Morris, Jr.
|
Computer Programmer |
Author of 1988 Huge Internet Worm |
? |
TBD |
|
Mike Muuss
|
Computer Programmer |
Ping |
16-Oct-1958 |
20-Nov-2000 |
DEAD
|
| Graham Nelson
|
Computer Programmer |
Created Inform programming language |
1968 |
TBD |
|
| Craig Newmark
|
Computer Programmer |
Founder, Craigslist |
02-Dec-1952 |
TBD |
|
| Peter Norton
|
Computer Programmer |
Retired computer utilities programmer |
14-Nov-1943 |
TBD |
|
| Ray Ozzie
|
Computer Programmer |
Microsoft Chief Software Architect |
20-Nov-1955 |
TBD |
|
| Alexey Pajitnov
|
Computer Programmer |
Helped invent Tetris |
1956 |
TBD |
|
| Seymour Papert
|
Computer Programmer |
Programming language LOGO |
01-Mar-1928 |
TBD |
|
| Tom Paquin
|
Computer Programmer |
Netscape Fellow |
? |
TBD |
|
| Charles Petzold
|
Computer Programmer |
Windows programming guru |
02-Feb-1953 |
TBD |
|
| Marcus Ranum
|
Computer Programmer |
Tenable Network Security |
05-Nov-1962 |
TBD |
|
Jef Raskin
|
Computer Programmer |
Designed Macintosh human interface |
09-Mar-1943 |
26-Feb-2005 |
DEAD
|
| Eric S. Raymond
|
Computer Programmer |
The New Hacker's Dictionary |
1957 |
TBD |
|
| Hans Reiser
|
Computer Programmer |
ReiserFS |
19-Dec-1963 |
TBD |
|
| Dennis Ritchie
|
Computer Programmer |
Co-Creator of UNIX |
09-Sep-1941 |
TBD |
|
| Ron Rivest
|
Computer Programmer |
The R in RSA |
1947 |
TBD |
|
| Warren Robinett
|
Computer Programmer |
Atari 2600 game Adventure |
1951 |
TBD |
|
| John Romero
|
Computer Programmer |
Doom, Quake, Daikatana |
28-Oct-1967 |
TBD |
|
| Aviel Rubin
|
Computer Programmer |
Computer security expert at Johns Hopkins |
08-Nov-1967 |
TBD |
|
| Mark Russinovich
|
Computer Programmer |
Microsoft Windows Internals |
1966 |
TBD |
|
| Hironobu Sakaguchi
|
Computer Programmer |
Created Final Fantasy videogame series |
14-Nov-1962 |
TBD |
|
| Bruce Schneier
|
Computer Programmer |
Applied Cryptography |
15-Jan-1964 |
TBD |
|
| Robert Sedgewick
|
Computer Programmer |
Algorithms |
1946 |
TBD |
|
| Carol Shaw
|
Computer Programmer |
River Raid |
? |
TBD |
|
| Bruce Shelley
|
Computer Programmer |
Created computer game Age of Empires |
? |
TBD |
|
| Charles Simonyi
|
Computer Programmer |
Hungarian notation |
10-Sep-1948 |
TBD |
|
| Rich Skrenta
|
Computer Programmer |
First PC virus, Elk Cloner |
1967 |
TBD |
|
| Gene Spafford
|
Computer Programmer |
Spaf |
1957 |
TBD |
|
| Mark Spencer
|
Computer Programmer |
Creator of Asterisk |
08-Apr-1977 |
TBD |
|
| Richard Stallman
|
Computer Programmer |
Founder, GNU software project |
16-Mar-1953 |
TBD |
|
| Bjarne Stroustrup
|
Computer Programmer |
Inventor of C programming language |
1950 |
TBD |
|
| Andrew Tanenbaum
|
Computer Programmer |
Creator of Minix |
1944 |
TBD |
|
| Brad Templeton
|
Computer Programmer |
Chairman, Electronic Frontier Foundation |
1960 |
TBD |
|
| Ken Thompson
|
Computer Programmer |
Co-creator of UNIX |
04-Feb-1943 |
TBD |
|
| Peter Tippett
|
Computer Programmer |
Antivirus software pioneer |
1953 |
TBD |
|
| Linus Torvalds
|
Computer Programmer |
Created the kernel for the GNU/Linux OS |
28-Dec-1969 |
TBD |
|
| The Michael Toy
|
Computer Programmer |
Netscape Defender of the Faith |
? |
TBD |
|
| Roy Trubshaw
|
Computer Programmer |
MUD |
? |
TBD |
|
| Guido van Rossum
|
Computer Programmer |
Created Python programming language |
? |
TBD |
|
| Wietse Venema
|
Computer Programmer |
SATAN, tcpwrappers, postfix |
1951 |
TBD |
|
John Vlissides
|
Computer Programmer |
Author number 4 of the Gang of Four |
02-Aug-1961 |
24-Nov-2005 |
DEAD
|
| Larry Wall
|
Computer Programmer |
Creator of Perl programming language |
1954 |
TBD |
|
Silas Warner
|
Computer Programmer |
Castle Wolfenstein |
18-Aug-1949 |
26-Feb-2004 |
DEAD
|
| John Warnock
|
Computer Programmer |
Co-Founder of Adobe |
06-Oct-1940 |
TBD |
|
Joseph Weizenbaum
|
Computer Programmer |
ELIZA |
08-Jan-1923 |
05-Mar-2008 |
DEAD
|
| Bob Whitehead
|
Computer Programmer |
Chopper Command, Stampede |
? |
TBD |
|
| Dave Winer
|
Computer Programmer |
Co-creator RSS, Scripting News |
1955 |
TBD |
|
| Niklaus Wirth
|
Computer Programmer |
Inventor of Pascal, Modula-2 |
15-Feb-1934 |
TBD |
|
| Steve Wozniak
|
Computer Programmer |
Co-Founder of Apple Computer |
11-Aug-1950 |
TBD |
|
| Will Wright
|
Computer Programmer |
Created SimCity, The Sims |
20-Jan-1960 |
TBD |
|
| Jamie Zawinski
|
Computer Programmer |
Netscape geek and SF club owner |
03-Nov-1968 |
TBD |
|
| Phil Zimmermann
|
Computer Programmer |
Creator of PGP |
12-Feb-1954 |
TBD |
|
| Mark Zuckerberg
|
Computer Programmer |
Founder of Facebook |
14-May-1984 |
TBD |
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