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目录 • 维基百科著名程序员列表大全 • 野心勃勃的284人采访计划 • Programmers at Work的评论 • 第一本书16人名单 • 根据字母排序名单 • 根据知名度排序名单 • 根据信息量排序名单 • 参考网站[显示部分][显示全部]
这是一份雄心勃勃的名单，Peter Seibel准备一一采访284位著名程序员的人员名单，可以说是涵括了IT历史上最有影响力的程序员，当然是在世的，要不他如何去采访啊。今年6月份，他第一阶段采访的成果就要出版了，前16个访谈成为第一本书，书名《Coders at Work 》。要是真的全部完成284人的采访，非得需要十多本书籍才行，那就真是著作等身不可。我们今天转贴他的这份名单，把她介绍给网友，参与或关注他的工程，作为我们互联网百科的建设指南。
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PC时代初期犹如拓荒小说里的南非。拓荒者们没有精巧的工具，没有丰厚的财力，没有经验，甚至没有足够的食物。一人一镐一簸箕，和百折不挠的狂热而已。然而风云际会，不定一镐下去，就是非洲之星。二、三十年前的黑客们就是PC时代的拓荒者。技术原始，无损他们奔放的想象力。工具粗陋，却激起他们征服的雄心。那时没有铺天盖地的类库，所以他们钻研P.J. Plauger的雄文。那时没有巨无霸一样的操作系统，所以他们细读Lion的经典。那时没有趁手的软件，所以他们创造奇迹。作为程序员，想来多少对这段动人往事好奇。Dan Bricklin怎么就做出了spreadsheet？Ray Ozzie从哪里得到关于群件的灵感？Jef Raskin如何让Machintosh成为PC的不朽经典？Butler Lampson发明所见即所得编辑器和Ethernet时，经历了怎样的顿悟？正如Peter Norvig在书评里所说，理解编程，除了学习黑客们铿锵的代码外，也许还要了解他们丰富的内心。虽说高手不可模仿，因为“学问跟他整个的性情陶融为一片，不仅有丰富的数量，还添上个别的性质；每一个琐细的事实，都在他的心血里沉浸滋养，长了神经和脉络，是你所学不会，学不到的”，但我们无疑可以受到不小的启发。如果能被他们打动，分享同样的激情，也算一庄美事。好在20年前Susan Lammers采访了书写历史的19名程序员。她把这些访谈集结出版，于是有了让众多程序员心潮澎湃的经典：Programmers at Work。记得是等公共汽车，为了排遣无聊翻看这本书。结果一看入神，错过了最后一班车。干脆走两小时路回家。一边走一边把书看完。当时我还几乎不懂编程。好比连烟都没抽过的人突然静脉注射高纯度海洛因，被刺激得死去活来。:-P 有兴趣的老大可以到这里读第一版的存档。 当然，19人，400页怎么能写尽前辈风范呢？何况IT业是古龙书中高手辈出的天下，而不是金庸笔下老人无敌的江湖。20年时移势易，早有新人名动五洲。不知别人如何，反正俺盼着有人再出类似的书。还好，Apress在Founders at Work（也是好书，顺便推荐一下）上尝到了甜头，于是趁热打铁，请Practical Common Lisp(Lisp的书居然能得Jolt奖，还是值得翻一下的哈)的作者Peter Seibel写Coders At Work。Peter能把Common Lisp的宏编程写得通俗易懂，能让铁杆儿C++/Java程序员对Common Lisp动心，笔头自是没话说。他的采访对象也是俺这种小喽喽仰望的对象。这里汇总了他采访的候选对象，凡284人。有意思的是大家心目中的超级高手大体一致。按投票数排序，前25位都是大家耳熟能详并且深刻改变我们生活的牛程。后面的就见仁见智了。比如说Google的Jeff Dean居然排在121位。而近几年光说不练Paul Graham排在第23位。下面是已经答应接受采访的程序员名单，让人神往： Joe Armstrong — Erlang作者 Bernie Cosell — ARPANET的IMP主要作者之一 Simon Peyton Jones — Haskell的发明人之一 Alan Kay — Smalltalk的发明人 Donald Knuth — 《编程的艺术》和Tex的作者. Peter Norvig — AI: A Modern Approach和Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming的作者 Ken Thompson — Unix的发明人 Jamie Zawinski — XEmacs和Netscape的主程
Frances Allen: Pioneer in optimizing compilers, first woman to win the Turing Award (2006) and first female IBM fellow Joe Armstrong: Inventor of Erlang Joshua Bloch: Author of the Java collections framework, now at Google Bernie Cosell: One of the main software guys behind the original ARPANET IMPs and a master debugger Douglas Crockford: JSON founder, JavaScript architect at Yahoo! L. Peter Deutsch: Author of Ghostscript, implementer of Smalltalk-80 at Xerox PARC and Lisp 1.5 on PDP-1 Brendan Eich: Inventor of JavaScript, CTO of the Mozilla Corporation Brad Fitzpatrick: Writer of LiveJournal, OpenID, memcached, and Perlbal Dan Ingalls: Smalltalk implementor and designer Simon Peyton Jones: Coinventor of Haskell and lead designer of Glasgow Haskell Compiler Donald Knuth: Author of The Art of Computer Programming and creator of TeX Peter Norvig: Director of Research at Google and author of the standard text on AI Guy Steele: Coinventor of Scheme and part of the Common Lisp Gang of Five, currently working on Fortress Ken Thompson: Inventor of UNIX Jamie Zawinski: Author of XEmacs and early Netscape/Mozilla hacker
完整的284人名单如下（根据知名度、信息量和字母排序等不同角度排列）
# Name Description 1 Hal Abelson Abelson of Abelson and Sussman. MIT professor. 2 Michael Abrash Optimization expert 3 Matthew Ahrens Works on ZFS in kernel group at Sun 4 Frances Allen Pioneer in optimizing compilers. First woman to win Turing Award (2006) and first woman IBM fellow. 5 Paul Allen Co-founded Microsoft. 6 Eric Allman Wrote sendmail 7 Marc Andreessen Co-wrote Mosaic. Founded Netscape. 8 Joe Armstrong Inventor of Erlang 9 Bill Atkinson Early Mac developer. Designed and implemented Hypercard 10 Henry Baker One of the founder of Symbolics; comp sci. researcher 11 Amir Ban Co-author of Junior chess program. 12 Marco Baringer Common Lisp hacker, author of Uncommon Web 13 Rob Barnaby Worked some on early Logo, wrote Word Star. Also did Stringcomp, an early string processing language. 14 Kent Beck Creator of XP 15 Brian Behlendorf Apache organizer 16 Fabrice Bellard Wrote QEMU, TinyCC, FFMPEG; Winner of 2001 IOCCC 17 Erik Benson Cheif Janitorial Officer - Robot Coop 18 Jon Bentley Author of Programming Pearls books. 19 Dan Bernstein Wrote djbns and qmail 20 Eric Bina Co-wrote Mosaic. 21 Ola Bini Core JRuby developer 22 Trevor Blackwell Principal at Viaweb. Now founder and CEO of Anybots 23 Jim Blinn Graphics Fellow at Microsoft 24 Joshua Bloch Author of Java collections framework. Now at Google. 25 Rusty Bobrow BBNer doing work in computational linguistics, speech recognition, and artificial intelligence. 26 Barry Boehem Software metrics guru 27 Jeff Bonwick Chief architect of ZFS 28 Keith Bostic Worked on BSD at Berkeley and one of the original authors of BerkeleyDB 29 Nick Bradbury Wrote HomeSite, TopStyle, and FeedDemon 30 Dan Bricklin Wrote Visicalc 31 Sergey Brin Founded Google 32 Avi Bryant Co-founder Dabble DB 33 Paul Buchheit Creator of GMail 34 Shay Bushinsky Co-author of Junior chess program. 35 John Carmack Founder of id Software; lead programmer of Doom, Quake, and others. 36 Vinton Cerf Father of TCP/IP 37 Donald Chamberlin Principle designer of SQL; ACM Intercollegiate Programming Contest judge, 1998-2005 38 Raymond Chen Worked on OS/2, Windows 95, and Direct X 39 Bram Cohen Wrote BitTorrent 40 Alain Colmerauer Invented Prolog 41 Damian Conway Perl hacker and three time winner of the Larry Wall award. Wrote Lingua::Romana::Perligata and others. 42 Bernie Cosell One of the main software guys behind the original ARPANET IMP's and a master debugger. 43 Alan Cox One of Linus Torvalds's main lieutenants. Wrote Linux TCP/IP code. 44 Brad Cox Invented Objective C 45 Russ Cox Worked on Plan 9. Represented U.S. at 1995 International Olympiad in Informatics 46 Dennis Crawley DodgeBall 47 Douglas Crockford JSON founder, JavaScript Architect at Yahoo! 48 Will Crowther Wrote Adventure and the inner packet processing loop of the original internet IMPs 49 Ward Cunningham Wrote the first Wiki and FIT. 50 David Cutler Architect of VMS and Windows NT 51 James Duncan Davidson Started Apache Ant and Apache Tomcat projects. Author of Java Servlet API and Java API for XML processing J2EE specifications. 52 Jeff Dean Google Fellow in Systems Infrastructure Group. Co-inventor of MapReduce. 53 Steve Dekorte Invented Io language. 54 L. Peter Deutsch Author of Ghostscript, Implemented Smalltalk-80 at Xerox PARC and Lisp 1.5 on PDP-1 55 Whitfield Diffie Discovered principle of public key cryptography 56 Matt Dillon FreeBSD hacker, founded DragonFly BSD project 57 Mark Jason Dominus Perl programmer; author of Higher Order Perl 58 Chrilly Donninger Author of the Hydra chess program. 59 Tom Duff Invented Duff's device and noted graphics programmer 60 Bruce Eckel Founding member of ANSI/ISO C++ committee. Author of Thinking in Java and Thinking in C++. 61 Brendan Eich Inventor of Javascript. CTO of the Mozilla Corporation 62 Thomas Enebo Principle JRuby developer 63 Douglas Engelbart Invented computer mouse 64 Dan Farmer Co-wrote Satan and TCT 65 Richard Fateman Computer algebraist. Worked on MacSysma and Maxima 66 Michael Feathers XP guru 67 Edward Feigenbaum Father of Expert Systems 68 Mathias Feist Co-author of Fritz chess program. 69 Roy Fielding One of the principle authors of HTTP specification. Invented REST. Co-founder of Apache project 70 Brad Fitzpatrick Wrote LiveJournal, OpenID, memcached, Perlbal 71 Mark Fletcher Founder Bloglines, egroups 72 John Foderaro Original author of Franz's Allegro Common Lisp 73 Amy Fowler Core Java Swing developer 74 Martin Fowler Chief Scientist at Thoughtworks. Author of Refactoring and many other books. 75 Dave Fox Lisp hacker, directior of Lispworks Ltd. 76 Justin Frankel Wrote Winamp, NSIS, and Gnutella 77 Janus Friis Founder of Joost, Skype, Kazaa 78 Richard Gabriel Lisper and Poet. Currently a Distinguished Engineer at IBM. Chair of OOPSLA 2007. 79 Erich Gamma One of the Gang of Four 80 Bill Gates Wrote BASIC for Altair 81 Andy Gavin Co-founder of Naughty Dog software. Wrote GOAL which was used to develop Jak and Daxter. 82 Dan Geer Security expert 83 Dominic Giampaolo Wrote BeOS file system 84 John Gilmore Contributor to several GNU projects. Co-author of Bootstrap protocol which became DHCP. Founder of EFF, Cypherpunks mailing list, and Cygnus solutions. 85 Adele Goldberg Smalltalk designer and documenter. 86 Luke Gorrie Lisp and Erlang hacker. Project lead for SLIME. 87 James Gosling Invented Java, NeWS windowing system. 88 Bill Gosper One of the original MIT hackers. Worked on Lisp machines, Maclisp, and Macsyma 89 Paul Graham Lisp hacker and author. 90 Richard Greenblatt Main implementor of Maclisp on PDP-6. Co-founded Lisp Machines, Inc. 91 Philip Greenspun Author of Greenspun's Tenth Law and sometimes instructor at MIT 92 Paul Haeberli Computer graphics researcher 93 David Heinemeier Hansson Invented Rails 94 John Harper Wrote librep and the sawfish window manager 95 Brian Harvey UC Comp Sci professor. Author of Berkeley Logo 96 Frank Heart Managed the group that built the ARPANET. 97 Charles Hedrick Lisp Unix hacker 98 Anders Hejlsberg Lead architect of C#, Architect of Delphi at Borland. Wrote what became Turbo Pascal 99 Richard Helm One of the Gang of Four 100 Val Henson Kernel hacker and file systems specialist. 101 Andy Hertzfeld Key Macintosh developer 102 Danny Hillis Founder of Thinking Machines 103 Richard Hipp Wrote sqlite embedded SQL database 104 Neil Hodgson Wrote Scintilla and SciTE 105 Adrian Holovaty Lead developer of Django 106 Don Hopkins Invented Pie Menus, working on One Laptop Per Child project. 107 Jim Hugunin Original author of Iron Python, now at Microsoft working on dynamic languages on the CLR. Co-designer of AspectJ language, lead development through 1.1 release. 108 Roger Hui Implementor of of J language 109 Watts Humphrey CMM guru. 110 Andrew Hunt Co-founder of Pragmatic Programmers 111 Urs Hölzle Researcher behind Sun's HotSpot JVM technology. 112 Miguel de Icaza Wrote GNOME and Mono 113 Roberto Ierusalimschy Invented Lua 114 Dan Ingalls Smalltalk implementor and designer. 115 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Wrote Gnus and Gmane 116 Van Jacobson Redesigned TCP/IP flow control algorithms, saving the net from total collapse. Eponymous inventor of Van Jacobson TCP/IP header compression. 117 Spencer Janssen Wrote xmonad, a tiling window manager implemened in Haskell 118 Ralph Johnson One of the Gang of Four 119 Rod Johnson Original author of Spring Framework 120 Simon Peyton Jones Co-inventor of Haskell and lead designer of Glasgow Haskell Compiler. 121 Rainer Joswig Contributes to CL-HTTP 122 Bill Joy Wrote BSD TCP/IP stack, vi 123 Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD kernel hacker 124 Jacob Kaplan-Moss Django developer. Wrote Tivo apps in Python and now hacking Python on the PSP 125 Mitchell Kapor Founded Lotus 126 Mike Karels System architect of BSD 4.3 and 4.4 releases. 127 Peter Karp Responsible for the development of BioCyc 128 Richard Karp Researcher in theory of algorithms 129 Alan Kay Inventor of Smalltalk. Coined the term "object-oriented programming". 130 Richard Kelsey Co-wrote Scheme 48 and edited R5RS 131 Brian Kernighan The K in AWK and K&R. Author of the original "hello, world" program. 132 Gregor Kiczales Wrote Common Lisp MOP. Invented Aspect Oriented programming. 133 Spencer Kimball Co-wrote GIMP. Googler. 134 Gavin King Original author of Hibernate, JBoss Seam 135 Jon Kleinberg Cornell Comp. Sci. professor. 136 Thomas Knoll Original creator of Photoshop. 137 Donald Knuth Author of The Art of Computer Programming and TeX 138 Peter-Paul Koch Javascript guru. Maintains quirksmode website. 139 Dierk Koenig. Groovy, Grails contributor 140 David Korn Wrote the Korn shell 141 Guillaume Laforge Groovy project lead 142 Leslie Lamport Distributed systems researcher and developer of LaTeX 143 Butler Lampson Systems pioneer. Worked on Xerox's Alto. 144 Tom Lane Core PostgreSQL developer responsible for optimizer. 145 Doug Lea Concurrency expert and systems programmer. 146 Sam Leffler BSD hacker. Wrote FreeBSD wi-fi drivers 147 Rasmus Lerdorf Invented PHP 148 Xavier Leroy Primary developer of OCaml. Wrote LinuxThreads threading package used in pre 2.6 Linux kernels 149 Max Levchin Co-founder Pay Pal & Slide 150 Greg Linden Founder Findory & worked at Amazon 151 Tom Lord Scheme and C hacker. Wrote GNU Arch 152 Matt Mackall Wrote Mecurial version control system. 153 Paul Mackerras Samba developer 154 Udi Manber VP of Engineering at Google. Co-author of Glimpse, Agrep, and Harvest search packages. 155 Joe Marshall Lisp hacker 156 Alex Martelli Co-author of Python Cookbook and Author of Python in a Nutshell 157 Robert Martin Founder and CEO of Object Mentor. C++ and Agile methods expert. 158 John Mashey Early Unix hacker 159 Yukihiro Matsumoto Invented Ruby 160 Peter Mattis Co-wrote GIMP. Googler. 161 Mark Maybee Worked on ZFS DMU at Sun. 162 John McCarthy Invented Lisp 163 Craig McClanahan Original author of Apache Struts 164 Rob McCool Wrote NCSA HTTPd; drafted Common Gateway Interface specification 165 Douglas McIlroy Unix toolsmith; invented Unix pipelines 166 Scott McKay Lisp and Dylan designer. 167 Marshall Kirk McKusick Designed Berkeley Fast File System. 168 Eric Meijer Architect in SQL server group at Microsoft working on combining functional programming with the CLR and SQL 169 Austin Meyer Author of X-Plane and Space Combat flight simulators 170 Bertrand Meyer Invented Eiffel 171 Stefan Meyer-Kahlen Author of Shredder chess program 172 Scott Meyers Author of Effective C++, More Effective C++, Effective STL 173 Marvin Minsky Artifical Intelligence researcher 174 Jeff Mogul HP Fellow working on networking performance. Contributed to HTTP 1.1 spec 175 Ingo Molnár Linux hacker, author of many Linux perfomance improvements. 176 Bruce Momjian Core PostgreSQL developer 177 Bram Moolenaar Wrote VIM (Vi IMproved) 178 Chuck Moore Invented Forth 179 Robert Morris Wrote the Internet Worm and co-founded Viaweb with Paul Graham 180 Frans Morsch Co-author of Fritz chess program. 181 Sape Mullender Member of Technical Staff, Lucent Technologies,Bell Labs Innovations, Computing Sciences Research, Murray Hill, New Jersey. 182 Erik Naggum Lisp hacker 183 Graham Nelson Invented Inform language used to program interatvive fiction 184 Peter Norton Wrote the first version of the Norton Utilities 185 Peter Norvig Director of Research at Google and author of the standard text on AI. 186 Charles Nutter Principle JRuby developer 187 Martin Odersky Invented Scala 188 Jarkko Oikarinen Started IRC 189 Rick Olsen Core Rails developer, wrote Mephisto and Beast 190 Wouter van Oortmerssen Game programmer and language designer 191 Larry Osterman Longtime Microsoftie 192 John Ousterhout Invented TCL 193 Ray Ozzie Main architect of Lotus Notes. Now Chief Software Architect at Microsoft. 194 Keith Packard X Windows hacker, founded X.Org Server project 195 Larry Page Founded Google 196 Radia Perlman Invented spanning-tree protocol 197 Tim Peters Python hacker and author of Spambayes 198 Evan Phoenix Author of Rubinus compiler/virtual machine for Ruby 199 Rob Pike Author of first bitmap windowing system for Unix. Worked on Plan 9. Now works at Google. 200 Mark Pilgrim Wrote Universal Feed Parser. Author of Dive into Python and Dive into Accessibility. 201 Dan Piponi Graphics programmer and theorist. 202 Kent Pitman Technical Editor of Common Lisp ANSI standard 203 P.J. Plauger Worked on first commercial C compiler 204 Theo de Raadt Founder of OpenBSD project. Original author of OpenSSH. 205 Allison Randal Architect of Parrot virtual machine 206 Marcus Ranum Security expert and author of Firewall Toolkit and Network Flight Recorder 207 Elizabeth Rather Colleague of Chuck Moore and second ever Forth programmer 208 Naval Ravikanth Founder vast.com 209 Jonathan Rees Designed T dialect of Scheme and co-wrote Scheme 48 210 Joel Reymont Open Poker 211 Dennis Ritchie Invented C and contributed to development of UNIX 212 Graeme Rocher Grails project lead 213 Guido van Rossum Invented Python 214 Peter Van Roy Contributor to Mozart/Oz programming system. Author of Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming 215 Jeff Rubin According to Richard Gabriel a "code-writing savant". 216 Alessandro Rubini Linux kernel hacker 217 Zack Rusin Qt graphics guru 218 Alex Russell Created Dojo Javascript library 219 Paul 'Rusty' Russell One of Linus Torvald's top deputies. Wrote ipchains and netfilter/iptables packet filtering code 220 Steve Russell One of John McCarthy's grad students. Brought Lisp to life by hand-coding EVAL in assembler. Wrote Spacewar. 221 Salvatore Sanfilippo Software developer and security expert 222 Michael C. Schatz Author of a number of gene sequencing programs. 223 Bob Scheifler Led the development of X Windows while the X Consortium was at MIT 224 Gavin Schmidt Programmer on GISS climate modeling software. 225 Bruce Schneier Security expert. Creator of Twofish block cipher. 226 Carla Schroder Long-time Linux geek. 227 Munjal Shah Co-founder Riya 228 Zed Shaw Wrote Mongrel (Rails HTTP server) 229 Wil Shipley Wrote Delicious Monster. Founded Omni Group 230 Olin Shivers Comp Sci professor interested in Scheme and ML. Wrote scsh 231 Mark Shuttleworth Founded Thawte and Ubuntu project. Previously a Debian developer 232 Charles Simonyi Invented Hungarian notation. Original author of Microsoft Word. Head of the IP project at Microsoft, now running intentsoft.com 233 Alvy Ray Smith Graphics pioneer. Worked at LucasFilm, helped found Pixar. 234 John Socha Wrote many DOS software packages for Norton Computing 235 Graham Spencer Co-founder Excite & Jot-Spot 236 Henry Spencer Wrote Unix regex library later incorporated into Tcl and Perl. Co-wrote C News news server 237 Ellen Spertus Head of Interdisciplinary Computer Science department at Mills College 238 Joel Spolsky FogCreekSoftware 239 Richard Stallman Wrote Emacs, gcc, and started the Free Software movement. 240 Guy Steele Co-inventor of Scheme and part of the Common Lisp Gang of Five. Currently working on Fortress. 241 Alexander Stepanov Author of the Standard Template Library for C++ 242 Sam Stephenson Created Prototype Javascript library 243 Don Stewart Haskell hacker 244 Why the lucky stiff Core Ruby developer and free spirit 245 Biz Stone Twitter 246 Bjarne Stroustrup Invented C++ 247 Dan Sugalski Original architect of Parrot VM 248 Gerald Jay Sussman Co-creator of Scheme and co-author of The Structure And Interpretation of Computer Programs. 249 Ivan Sutherland Invented Sketchpad, precursor to modern GUIs 250 Aaron Swartz Invented web.py 251 Tim Sweeney Founder of Epic Games. Wrote the Unreal Engine. 252 Eric Swildens Founder Microline Software, Co-founder Speedera Networks 253 Andrew Tanenbaum Created Minix, advocate for micro-kernels. 254 Audrey Tang Leader of Pugs project to implement Perl 6 in Haskell 255 Simon Tatham Author of PuTTY 256 Robert Thau Early Apache developer. Started Bianca Troll 257 Dave Thomas Co-founder of Pragmatic Programmers 258 Ken Thompson Inventor of UNIX 259 Ray Tomlinson Wrote first networked email system and gave us the @-sign in email addresses. 260 Chris Torek BSDI os hacker 261 Linus Torvalds Wrote and maintains Linux kernel. Wrote GIT version control system. 262 Andrew Tridgell Wrote Samba file server and co-invented rsync algorithm 263 Wietse Venema Wrote Postfix. Co-wrote Satan and TCT 264 Paul Vixie Wrote BIND 265 John Vlissides One of the Gang of Four 266 Philip Wadler Professor of Theoretical Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh. Contributed to design of Java, Haskell, and XQuery. 267 Dick Wall Co-host of the Java Posse podcast. Works at Google. 268 Larry Wall Invented Perl 269 Chris Wanstrath Notable Rails programmer 270 Peter Weinberger The W in AWK 271 Dan Weinreb Founder of Symbolics. Now at ITA. 272 Edi Weitz Lisp library hacker extraordinaire. Co-organizer of the European Common Lisp Meetings 2005 and 2006 273 Arthur Whitney Invented A+ and K languages and wrote prototype of J language 274 Evan Williams Twitter 275 Simon Willison Django developer. Hacker Liason for Yahoo UK 276 Niklaus Wirth Invented Pascal, Modula, Oberon 277 Stephen Wolfram Invented Mathematica 278 Steve Wozniak Wrote most of the original Apple II software. 279 Ka-Ping Yee Python hacker extraordinaire. 280 Steve Yegge Blogger and Googler 281 Ilya Zakharevich Major contributor to perl5 including a major reworking of the regex engine. 282 Jamie Zawinski Author of XEmacs and early Netscape/Mozilla hacker. 283 Niklas Zennstrom Founder of Joost, Skype, Kazaa 284 Mark Zuckerberg Founder and CEO of Facebook
# Name Description 1 Peter Norvig Director of Research at Google and author of the standard text on AI. 2 Alan Kay Inventor of Smalltalk. Coined the term "object-oriented programming". 3 Guy Steele Co-inventor of Scheme and part of the Common Lisp Gang of Five. Currently working on Fortress. 4 Donald Knuth Author of The Art of Computer Programming and TeX 5 Gerald Jay Sussman Co-creator of Scheme and co-author of The Structure And Interpretation of Computer Programs. 6 John McCarthy Invented Lisp 7 John Carmack Founder of id Software; lead programmer of Doom, Quake, and others. 8 Dennis Ritchie Invented C and contributed to development of UNIX 9 Joe Armstrong Inventor of Erlang 10 Ken Thompson Inventor of UNIX 11 Brian Kernighan The K in AWK and K&R. Author of the original "hello, world" program. 12 Guido van Rossum Invented Python 13 Linus Torvalds Wrote and maintains Linux kernel. Wrote GIT version control system. 14 Steve Wozniak Wrote most of the original Apple II software. 15 Bill Joy Wrote BSD TCP/IP stack, vi 16 Simon Peyton Jones Co-inventor of Haskell and lead designer of Glasgow Haskell Compiler. 17 Larry Wall Invented Perl 18 Alan Cox One of Linus Torvalds's main lieutenants. Wrote Linux TCP/IP code. 19 Jamie Zawinski Author of XEmacs and early Netscape/Mozilla hacker. 20 Ward Cunningham Wrote the first Wiki and FIT. 21 Chuck Moore Invented Forth 22 Theo de Raadt Founder of OpenBSD project. Original author of OpenSSH. 23 Tim Sweeney Founder of Epic Games. Wrote the Unreal Engine. 24 Edi Weitz Lisp library hacker extraordinaire. Co-organizer of the European Common Lisp Meetings 2005 and 2006 25 Robert Morris Wrote the Internet Worm and co-founded Viaweb with Paul Graham 26 Brendan Eich Inventor of Javascript. CTO of the Mozilla Corporation 27 Paul Graham Lisp hacker and author. 28 Yukihiro Matsumoto Invented Ruby 29 Fabrice Bellard Wrote QEMU, TinyCC, FFMPEG; Winner of 2001 IOCCC 30 Dan Bernstein Wrote djbns and qmail 31 Andrew Tridgell Wrote Samba file server and co-invented rsync algorithm 32 Andrew Tanenbaum Created Minix, advocate for micro-kernels. 33 Andy Gavin Co-founder of Naughty Dog software. Wrote GOAL which was used to develop Jak and Daxter. 34 Brad Fitzpatrick Wrote LiveJournal, OpenID, memcached, Perlbal 35 Bram Cohen Wrote BitTorrent 36 Michael Abrash Optimization expert 37 Hal Abelson Abelson of Abelson and Sussman. MIT professor. 38 Miguel de Icaza Wrote GNOME and Mono 39 Richard Stallman Wrote Emacs, gcc, and started the Free Software movement. 40 Rob Pike Author of first bitmap windowing system for Unix. Worked on Plan 9. Now works at Google. 41 Douglas Engelbart Invented computer mouse 42 Audrey Tang Leader of Pugs project to implement Perl 6 in Haskell 43 Marvin Minsky Artifical Intelligence researcher 44 Stephen Wolfram Invented Mathematica 45 Bruce Schneier Security expert. Creator of Twofish block cipher. 46 Philip Greenspun Author of Greenspun's Tenth Law and sometimes instructor at MIT 47 Frances Allen Pioneer in optimizing compilers. First woman to win Turing Award (2006) and first woman IBM fellow. 48 Erik Naggum Lisp hacker 49 James Gosling Invented Java, NeWS windowing system. 50 Paul Buchheit Creator of GMail 51 Bjarne Stroustrup Invented C++ 52 Anders Hejlsberg Lead architect of C#, Architect of Delphi at Borland. Wrote what became Turbo Pascal 53 Justin Frankel Wrote Winamp, NSIS, and Gnutella 54 David Heinemeier Hansson Invented Rails 55 Bill Gosper One of the original MIT hackers. Worked on Lisp machines, Maclisp, and Macsyma 56 L. Peter Deutsch Author of Ghostscript, Implemented Smalltalk-80 at Xerox PARC and Lisp 1.5 on PDP-1 57 Whitfield Diffie Discovered principle of public key cryptography 58 Wil Shipley Wrote Delicious Monster. Founded Omni Group 59 Andy Hertzfeld Key Macintosh developer 60 Raymond Chen Worked on OS/2, Windows 95, and Direct X 61 Richard Gabriel Lisper and Poet. Currently a Distinguished Engineer at IBM. Chair of OOPSLA 2007. 62 Charles Simonyi Invented Hungarian notation. Original author of Microsoft Word. Head of the IP project at Microsoft, now running intentsoft.com 63 Sergey Brin Founded Google 64 Gregor Kiczales Wrote Common Lisp MOP. Invented Aspect Oriented programming. 65 Martin Fowler Chief Scientist at Thoughtworks. Author of Refactoring and many other books. 66 Dan Ingalls Smalltalk implementor and designer. 67 Steve Yegge Blogger and Googler 68 Matt Dillon FreeBSD hacker, founded DragonFly BSD project 69 Leslie Lamport Distributed systems researcher and developer of LaTeX 70 Why the lucky stiff Core Ruby developer and free spirit 71 Xavier Leroy Primary developer of OCaml. Wrote LinuxThreads threading package used in pre 2.6 Linux kernels 72 Alexander Stepanov Author of the Standard Template Library for C++ 73 Douglas Crockford JSON founder, JavaScript Architect at Yahoo! 74 Larry Page Founded Google 75 Marc Andreessen Co-wrote Mosaic. Founded Netscape. 76 Douglas McIlroy Unix toolsmith; invented Unix pipelines 77 Bill Atkinson Early Mac developer. Designed and implemented Hypercard 78 David Cutler Architect of VMS and Windows NT 79 Zed Shaw Wrote Mongrel (Rails HTTP server) 80 Danny Hillis Founder of Thinking Machines 81 Roy Fielding One of the principle authors of HTTP specification. Invented REST. Co-founder of Apache project 82 Olin Shivers Comp Sci professor interested in Scheme and ML. Wrote scsh 83 Vinton Cerf Father of TCP/IP 84 Allison Randal Architect of Parrot virtual machine 85 Aaron Swartz Invented web.py 86 Trevor Blackwell Principal at Viaweb. Now founder and CEO of Anybots 87 Bruce Momjian Core PostgreSQL developer 88 Van Jacobson Redesigned TCP/IP flow control algorithms, saving the net from total collapse. Eponymous inventor of Van Jacobson TCP/IP header compression. 89 Mark Pilgrim Wrote Universal Feed Parser. Author of Dive into Python and Dive into Accessibility. 90 Bill Gates Wrote BASIC for Altair 91 Henry Baker One of the founder of Symbolics; comp sci. researcher 92 Brad Cox Invented Objective C 93 Jonathan Rees Designed T dialect of Scheme and co-wrote Scheme 48 94 Bertrand Meyer Invented Eiffel 95 Ivan Sutherland Invented Sketchpad, precursor to modern GUIs 96 Niklaus Wirth Invented Pascal, Modula, Oberon 97 Alex Martelli Co-author of Python Cookbook and Author of Python in a Nutshell 98 Philip Wadler Professor of Theoretical Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh. Contributed to design of Java, Haskell, and XQuery. 99 Mark Shuttleworth Founded Thawte and Ubuntu project. Previously a Debian developer 100 Tom Lane Core PostgreSQL developer responsible for optimizer. 101 Richard Hipp Wrote sqlite embedded SQL database 102 Ingo Molnár Linux hacker, author of many Linux perfomance improvements. 103 Bruce Eckel Founding member of ANSI/ISO C++ committee. Author of Thinking in Java and Thinking in C++. 104 Kent Pitman Technical Editor of Common Lisp ANSI standard 105 Jeff Rubin According to Richard Gabriel a "code-writing savant". 106 Richard Greenblatt Main implementor of Maclisp on PDP-6. Co-founded Lisp Machines, Inc. 107 Adrian Holovaty Lead developer of Django 108 Jon Bentley Author of Programming Pearls books. 109 Kent Beck Creator of XP 110 Bram Moolenaar Wrote VIM (Vi IMproved) 111 Tom Duff Invented Duff's device and noted graphics programmer 112 Dave Fox Lisp hacker, directior of Lispworks Ltd. 113 Luke Gorrie Lisp and Erlang hacker. Project lead for SLIME. 114 Marco Baringer Common Lisp hacker, author of Uncommon Web 115 Alain Colmerauer Invented Prolog 116 Don Stewart Haskell hacker 117 John Foderaro Original author of Franz's Allegro Common Lisp 118 Elizabeth Rather Colleague of Chuck Moore and second ever Forth programmer 119 Ka-Ping Yee Python hacker extraordinaire. 120 Jeff Dean Google Fellow in Systems Infrastructure Group. Co-inventor of MapReduce. 121 Tim Peters Python hacker and author of Spambayes 122 Rasmus Lerdorf Invented PHP 123 Alvy Ray Smith Graphics pioneer. Worked at LucasFilm, helped found Pixar. 124 Marshall Kirk McKusick Designed Berkeley Fast File System. 125 Steve Russell One of John McCarthy's grad students. Brought Lisp to life by hand-coding EVAL in assembler. Wrote Spacewar. 126 Damian Conway Perl hacker and three time winner of the Larry Wall award. Wrote Lingua::Romana::Perligata and others. 127 Ola Bini Core JRuby developer 128 Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD kernel hacker 129 Ellen Spertus Head of Interdisciplinary Computer Science department at Mills College 130 Wietse Venema Wrote Postfix. Co-wrote Satan and TCT 131 Charles Nutter Principle JRuby developer 132 Jim Hugunin Original author of Iron Python, now at Microsoft working on dynamic languages on the CLR. Co-designer of AspectJ language, lead development through 1.1 release. 133 Roberto Ierusalimschy Invented Lua 134 Edward Feigenbaum Father of Expert Systems 135 Joshua Bloch Author of Java collections framework. Now at Google. 136 Urs Hölzle Researcher behind Sun's HotSpot JVM technology. 137 P.J. Plauger Worked on first commercial C compiler 138 Tom Lord Scheme and C hacker. Wrote GNU Arch 139 Erich Gamma One of the Gang of Four 140 Jarkko Oikarinen Started IRC 141 Mitchell Kapor Founded Lotus 142 Don Hopkins Invented Pie Menus, working on One Laptop Per Child project. 143 Paul Vixie Wrote BIND 144 Michael Feathers XP guru 145 Janus Friis Founder of Joost, Skype, Kazaa 146 John Ousterhout Invented TCL 147 Graham Nelson Invented Inform language used to program interatvive fiction 148 Eric Meijer Architect in SQL server group at Microsoft working on combining functional programming with the CLR and SQL 149 Udi Manber VP of Engineering at Google. Co-author of Glimpse, Agrep, and Harvest search packages. 150 Mark Zuckerberg Founder and CEO of Facebook 151 Scott McKay Lisp and Dylan designer. 152 Keith Packard X Windows hacker, founded X.Org Server project 153 Paul Allen Co-founded Microsoft. 154 Richard Kelsey Co-wrote Scheme 48 and edited R5RS 155 Amy Fowler Core Java Swing developer 156 Butler Lampson Systems pioneer. Worked on Xerox's Alto. 157 Dan Bricklin Wrote Visicalc 158 Nick Bradbury Wrote HomeSite, TopStyle, and FeedDemon 159 Ralph Johnson One of the Gang of Four 160 John Gilmore Contributor to several GNU projects. Co-author of Bootstrap protocol which became DHCP. Founder of EFF, Cypherpunks mailing list, and Cygnus solutions. 161 Carla Schroder Long-time Linux geek. 162 Zack Rusin Qt graphics guru 163 Donald Chamberlin Principle designer of SQL; ACM Intercollegiate Programming Contest judge, 1998-2005 164 Rick Olsen Core Rails developer, wrote Mephisto and Beast 165 Joe Marshall Lisp hacker 166 Gavin King Original author of Hibernate, JBoss Seam 167 Richard Karp Researcher in theory of algorithms 168 Martin Odersky Invented Scala 169 James Duncan Davidson Started Apache Ant and Apache Tomcat projects. Author of Java Servlet API and Java API for XML processing J2EE specifications. 170 Brian Behlendorf Apache organizer 171 Dan Farmer Co-wrote Satan and TCT 172 Ray Ozzie Main architect of Lotus Notes. Now Chief Software Architect at Microsoft. 173 Roger Hui Implementor of of J language 174 Scott Meyers Author of Effective C++, More Effective C++, Effective STL 175 Henry Spencer Wrote Unix regex library later incorporated into Tcl and Perl. Co-wrote C News news server 176 Jim Blinn Graphics Fellow at Microsoft 177 Steve Dekorte Invented Io language. 178 Evan Phoenix Author of Rubinus compiler/virtual machine for Ruby 179 Ray Tomlinson Wrote first networked email system and gave us the @-sign in email addresses. 180 Larry Osterman Longtime Microsoftie 181 Russ Cox Worked on Plan 9. Represented U.S. at 1995 International Olympiad in Informatics 182 Peter Van Roy Contributor to Mozart/Oz programming system. Author of Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming 183 Paul 'Rusty' Russell One of Linus Torvald's top deputies. Wrote ipchains and netfilter/iptables packet filtering code 184 Matt Mackall Wrote Mecurial version control system. 185 Chris Wanstrath Notable Rails programmer 186 Niklas Zennstrom Founder of Joost, Skype, Kazaa 187 David Korn Wrote the Korn shell 188 Avi Bryant Co-founder Dabble DB 189 Barry Boehem Software metrics guru 190 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Wrote Gnus and Gmane 191 Jacob Kaplan-Moss Django developer. Wrote Tivo apps in Python and now hacking Python on the PSP 192 John Mashey Early Unix hacker 193 Keith Bostic Worked on BSD at Berkeley and one of the original authors of BerkeleyDB 194 Gavin Schmidt Programmer on GISS climate modeling software. 195 Robert Martin Founder and CEO of Object Mentor. C++ and Agile methods expert. 196 Doug Lea Concurrency expert and systems programmer. 197 Adele Goldberg Smalltalk designer and documenter. 198 Dan Geer Security expert 199 Austin Meyer Author of X-Plane and Space Combat flight simulators 200 Neil Hodgson Wrote Scintilla and SciTE 201 Brian Harvey UC Comp Sci professor. Author of Berkeley Logo 202 Paul Haeberli Computer graphics researcher 203 Rob McCool Wrote NCSA HTTPd; drafted Common Gateway Interface specification 204 Radia Perlman Invented spanning-tree protocol 205 Stefan Meyer-Kahlen Author of Shredder chess program 206 Alessandro Rubini Linux kernel hacker 207 Wouter van Oortmerssen Game programmer and language designer 208 Craig McClanahan Original author of Apache Struts 209 Will Crowther Wrote Adventure and the inner packet processing loop of the original internet IMPs 210 Marcus Ranum Security expert and author of Firewall Toolkit and Network Flight Recorder 211 Eric Allman Wrote sendmail 212 Andrew Hunt Co-founder of Pragmatic Programmers 213 Arthur Whitney Invented A+ and K languages and wrote prototype of J language 214 Dave Thomas Co-founder of Pragmatic Programmers 215 Dan Piponi Graphics programmer and theorist. 216 Peter Weinberger The W in AWK 217 Thomas Enebo Principle JRuby developer 218 Richard Helm One of the Gang of Four 219 Bob Scheifler Led the development of X Windows while the X Consortium was at MIT 220 Charles Hedrick Lisp Unix hacker 221 Guillaume Laforge Groovy project lead 222 Ilya Zakharevich Major contributor to perl5 including a major reworking of the regex engine. 223 John Vlissides One of the Gang of Four 224 Dominic Giampaolo Wrote BeOS file system 225 Salvatore Sanfilippo Software developer and security expert 226 Rod Johnson Original author of Spring Framework 227 Mathias Feist Co-author of Fritz chess program. 228 Sam Leffler BSD hacker. Wrote FreeBSD wi-fi drivers 229 Chris Torek BSDI os hacker 230 Mike Karels System architect of BSD 4.3 and 4.4 releases. 231 Jeff Mogul HP Fellow working on networking performance. Contributed to HTTP 1.1 spec 232 Rob Barnaby Worked some on early Logo, wrote Word Star. Also did Stringcomp, an early string processing language. 233 Eric Bina Co-wrote Mosaic. 234 Simon Willison Django developer. Hacker Liason for Yahoo UK 235 Frans Morsch Co-author of Fritz chess program. 236 John Harper Wrote librep and the sawfish window manager 237 Spencer Janssen Wrote xmonad, a tiling window manager implemened in Haskell 238 John Socha Wrote many DOS software packages for Norton Computing 239 Peter Karp Responsible for the development of BioCyc 240 Mark Maybee Worked on ZFS DMU at Sun. 241 Peter Norton Wrote the first version of the Norton Utilities 242 Graeme Rocher Grails project lead 243 Dan Sugalski Original architect of Parrot VM 244 Erik Benson Cheif Janitorial Officer - Robot Coop 245 Mark Fletcher Founder Bloglines, egroups 246 Graham Spencer Co-founder Excite & Jot-Spot 247 Mark Jason Dominus Perl programmer; author of Higher Order Perl 248 Sape Mullender Member of Technical Staff, Lucent Technologies,Bell Labs Innovations, Computing Sciences Research, Murray Hill, New Jersey. 249 Paul Mackerras Samba developer 250 Val Henson Kernel hacker and file systems specialist. 251 Greg Linden Founder Findory & worked at Amazon 252 Dick Wall Co-host of the Java Posse podcast. Works at Google. 253 Spencer Kimball Co-wrote GIMP. Googler. 254 Jeff Bonwick Chief architect of ZFS 255 Peter Mattis Co-wrote GIMP. Googler. 256 Bernie Cosell One of the main software guys behind the original ARPANET IMP's and a master debugger. 257 Shay Bushinsky Co-author of Junior chess program. 258 Dennis Crawley DodgeBall 259 Rainer Joswig Contributes to CL-HTTP 260 Biz Stone Twitter 261 Max Levchin Co-founder Pay Pal & Slide 262 Joel Reymont Open Poker 263 Jon Kleinberg Cornell Comp. Sci. professor. 264 Joel Spolsky FogCreekSoftware 265 Munjal Shah Co-founder Riya 266 Dierk Koenig. Groovy, Grails contributor 267 Peter-Paul Koch Javascript guru. Maintains quirksmode website. 268 Frank Heart Managed the group that built the ARPANET. 269 Thomas Knoll Original creator of Photoshop. 270 Amir Ban Co-author of Junior chess program. 271 Watts Humphrey CMM guru. 272 Rusty Bobrow BBNer doing work in computational linguistics, speech recognition, and artificial intelligence. 273 Simon Tatham Author of PuTTY 274 Eric Swildens Founder Microline Software, Co-founder Speedera Networks 275 Evan Williams Twitter 276 Dan Weinreb Founder of Symbolics. Now at ITA. 277 Robert Thau Early Apache developer. Started Bianca Troll 278 Chrilly Donninger Author of the Hydra chess program. 279 Matthew Ahrens Works on ZFS in kernel group at Sun 280 Michael C. Schatz Author of a number of gene sequencing programs. 281 Richard Fateman Computer algebraist. Worked on MacSysma and Maxima 282 Alex Russell Created Dojo Javascript library 283 Naval Ravikanth Founder vast.com 284 Sam Stephenson Created Prototype Javascript library
# Name Description 1 Linus Torvalds Wrote and maintains Linux kernel. Wrote GIT version control system. 2 Chuck Moore Invented Forth 3 Peter Norvig Director of Research at Google and author of the standard text on AI. 4 Ken Thompson Inventor of UNIX 5 L. Peter Deutsch Author of Ghostscript, Implemented Smalltalk-80 at Xerox PARC and Lisp 1.5 on PDP-1 6 Donald Knuth Author of The Art of Computer Programming and TeX 7 Alan Kay Inventor of Smalltalk. Coined the term "object-oriented programming". 8 John Carmack Founder of id Software; lead programmer of Doom, Quake, and others. 9 Guy Steele Co-inventor of Scheme and part of the Common Lisp Gang of Five. Currently working on Fortress. 10 Joe Armstrong Inventor of Erlang 11 Theo de Raadt Founder of OpenBSD project. Original author of OpenSSH. 12 Bernie Cosell One of the main software guys behind the original ARPANET IMP's and a master debugger. 13 Simon Peyton Jones Co-inventor of Haskell and lead designer of Glasgow Haskell Compiler. 14 Jamie Zawinski Author of XEmacs and early Netscape/Mozilla hacker. 15 Dan Ingalls Smalltalk implementor and designer. 16 Douglas Crockford JSON founder, JavaScript Architect at Yahoo! 17 Edi Weitz Lisp library hacker extraordinaire. Co-organizer of the European Common Lisp Meetings 2005 and 2006 18 Steve Yegge Blogger and Googler 19 David Heinemeier Hansson Invented Rails 20 Zack Rusin Qt graphics guru 21 Miguel de Icaza Wrote GNOME and Mono 22 Richard Gabriel Lisper and Poet. Currently a Distinguished Engineer at IBM. Chair of OOPSLA 2007. 23 Joshua Bloch Author of Java collections framework. Now at Google. 24 Brendan Eich Inventor of Javascript. CTO of the Mozilla Corporation 25 Andy Gavin Co-founder of Naughty Dog software. Wrote GOAL which was used to develop Jak and Daxter. 26 Richard Stallman Wrote Emacs, gcc, and started the Free Software movement. 27 Frances Allen Pioneer in optimizing compilers. First woman to win Turing Award (2006) and first woman IBM fellow. 28 Yukihiro Matsumoto Invented Ruby 29 Aaron Swartz Invented web.py 30 Bill Joy Wrote BSD TCP/IP stack, vi 31 Larry Wall Invented Perl 32 Tim Sweeney Founder of Epic Games. Wrote the Unreal Engine. 33 Paul Graham Lisp hacker and author. 34 Brad Fitzpatrick Wrote LiveJournal, OpenID, memcached, Perlbal 35 Michael Abrash Optimization expert 36 James Gosling Invented Java, NeWS windowing system. 37 Kent Beck Creator of XP 38 Dennis Ritchie Invented C and contributed to development of UNIX 39 Ward Cunningham Wrote the first Wiki and FIT. 40 Fabrice Bellard Wrote QEMU, TinyCC, FFMPEG; Winner of 2001 IOCCC 41 Roy Fielding One of the principle authors of HTTP specification. Invented REST. Co-founder of Apache project 42 Olin Shivers Comp Sci professor interested in Scheme and ML. Wrote scsh 43 Amy Fowler Core Java Swing developer 44 Donald Chamberlin Principle designer of SQL; ACM Intercollegiate Programming Contest judge, 1998-2005 45 Ray Tomlinson Wrote first networked email system and gave us the @-sign in email addresses. 46 Rod Johnson Original author of Spring Framework 47 Mark Jason Dominus Perl programmer; author of Higher Order Perl 48 Brian Kernighan The K in AWK and K&R. Author of the original "hello, world" program. 49 Bram Cohen Wrote BitTorrent 50 Rob Pike Author of first bitmap windowing system for Unix. Worked on Plan 9. Now works at Google. 51 Douglas Engelbart Invented computer mouse 52 Bjarne Stroustrup Invented C++ 53 Anders Hejlsberg Lead architect of C#, Architect of Delphi at Borland. Wrote what became Turbo Pascal 54 Justin Frankel Wrote Winamp, NSIS, and Gnutella 55 Wil Shipley Wrote Delicious Monster. Founded Omni Group 56 Charles Simonyi Invented Hungarian notation. Original author of Microsoft Word. Head of the IP project at Microsoft, now running intentsoft.com 57 Zed Shaw Wrote Mongrel (Rails HTTP server) 58 Allison Randal Architect of Parrot virtual machine 59 Bruce Momjian Core PostgreSQL developer 60 Niklaus Wirth Invented Pascal, Modula, Oberon 61 Tom Lane Core PostgreSQL developer responsible for optimizer. 62 Ka-Ping Yee Python hacker extraordinaire. 63 Jeff Dean Google Fellow in Systems Infrastructure Group. Co-inventor of MapReduce. 64 Ola Bini Core JRuby developer 65 Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD kernel hacker 66 Wietse Venema Wrote Postfix. Co-wrote Satan and TCT 67 Urs Hölzle Researcher behind Sun's HotSpot JVM technology. 68 Paul Vixie Wrote BIND 69 Evan Phoenix Author of Rubinus compiler/virtual machine for Ruby 70 Larry Osterman Longtime Microsoftie 71 Jacob Kaplan-Moss Django developer. Wrote Tivo apps in Python and now hacking Python on the PSP 72 Keith Bostic Worked on BSD at Berkeley and one of the original authors of BerkeleyDB 73 Radia Perlman Invented spanning-tree protocol 74 Wouter van Oortmerssen Game programmer and language designer 75 Bob Scheifler Led the development of X Windows while the X Consortium was at MIT 76 Guillaume Laforge Groovy project lead 77 Simon Willison Django developer. Hacker Liason for Yahoo UK 78 Peter Karp Responsible for the development of BioCyc 79 Michael C. Schatz Author of a number of gene sequencing programs. 80 John McCarthy Invented Lisp 81 Guido van Rossum Invented Python 82 Steve Wozniak Wrote most of the original Apple II software. 83 Robert Morris Wrote the Internet Worm and co-founded Viaweb with Paul Graham 84 Andrew Tridgell Wrote Samba file server and co-invented rsync algorithm 85 Audrey Tang Leader of Pugs project to implement Perl 6 in Haskell 86 Paul Buchheit Creator of GMail 87 Andy Hertzfeld Key Macintosh developer 88 Raymond Chen Worked on OS/2, Windows 95, and Direct X 89 Xavier Leroy Primary developer of OCaml. Wrote LinuxThreads threading package used in pre 2.6 Linux kernels 90 Bill Atkinson Early Mac developer. Designed and implemented Hypercard 91 David Cutler Architect of VMS and Windows NT 92 Trevor Blackwell Principal at Viaweb. Now founder and CEO of Anybots 93 Bertrand Meyer Invented Eiffel 94 Alex Martelli Co-author of Python Cookbook and Author of Python in a Nutshell 95 Bruce Eckel Founding member of ANSI/ISO C++ committee. Author of Thinking in Java and Thinking in C++. 96 Richard Greenblatt Main implementor of Maclisp on PDP-6. Co-founded Lisp Machines, Inc. 97 Alain Colmerauer Invented Prolog 98 Don Stewart Haskell hacker 99 Marshall Kirk McKusick Designed Berkeley Fast File System. 100 Jim Hugunin Original author of Iron Python, now at Microsoft working on dynamic languages on the CLR. Co-designer of AspectJ language, lead development through 1.1 release. 101 Roberto Ierusalimschy Invented Lua 102 P.J. Plauger Worked on first commercial C compiler 103 Don Hopkins Invented Pie Menus, working on One Laptop Per Child project. 104 John Ousterhout Invented TCL 105 Eric Meijer Architect in SQL server group at Microsoft working on combining functional programming with the CLR and SQL 106 Udi Manber VP of Engineering at Google. Co-author of Glimpse, Agrep, and Harvest search packages. 107 Gavin King Original author of Hibernate, JBoss Seam 108 Dan Farmer Co-wrote Satan and TCT 109 Jim Blinn Graphics Fellow at Microsoft 110 Steve Dekorte Invented Io language. 111 Ilya Zakharevich Major contributor to perl5 including a major reworking of the regex engine. 112 Matthew Ahrens Works on ZFS in kernel group at Sun 113 Alex Russell Created Dojo Javascript library 114 Gerald Jay Sussman Co-creator of Scheme and co-author of The Structure And Interpretation of Computer Programs. 115 Dan Bernstein Wrote djbns and qmail 116 Andrew Tanenbaum Created Minix, advocate for micro-kernels. 117 Erik Naggum Lisp hacker 118 Martin Fowler Chief Scientist at Thoughtworks. Author of Refactoring and many other books. 119 Matt Dillon FreeBSD hacker, founded DragonFly BSD project 120 Leslie Lamport Distributed systems researcher and developer of LaTeX 121 Why the lucky stiff Core Ruby developer and free spirit 122 Douglas McIlroy Unix toolsmith; invented Unix pipelines 123 Mark Pilgrim Wrote Universal Feed Parser. Author of Dive into Python and Dive into Accessibility. 124 Philip Wadler Professor of Theoretical Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh. Contributed to design of Java, Haskell, and XQuery. 125 Richard Hipp Wrote sqlite embedded SQL database 126 Jeff Rubin According to Richard Gabriel a "code-writing savant". 127 Adrian Holovaty Lead developer of Django 128 Bram Moolenaar Wrote VIM (Vi IMproved) 129 Luke Gorrie Lisp and Erlang hacker. Project lead for SLIME. 130 Tim Peters Python hacker and author of Spambayes 131 Alvy Ray Smith Graphics pioneer. Worked at LucasFilm, helped found Pixar. 132 Damian Conway Perl hacker and three time winner of the Larry Wall award. Wrote Lingua::Romana::Perligata and others. 133 Jarkko Oikarinen Started IRC 134 Keith Packard X Windows hacker, founded X.Org Server project 135 Butler Lampson Systems pioneer. Worked on Xerox's Alto. 136 Dan Bricklin Wrote Visicalc 137 Ralph Johnson One of the Gang of Four 138 Carla Schroder Long-time Linux geek. 139 Joe Marshall Lisp hacker 140 Martin Odersky Invented Scala 141 James Duncan Davidson Started Apache Ant and Apache Tomcat projects. Author of Java Servlet API and Java API for XML processing J2EE specifications. 142 Brian Behlendorf Apache organizer 143 Ray Ozzie Main architect of Lotus Notes. Now Chief Software Architect at Microsoft. 144 Henry Spencer Wrote Unix regex library later incorporated into Tcl and Perl. Co-wrote C News news server 145 Paul 'Rusty' Russell One of Linus Torvald's top deputies. Wrote ipchains and netfilter/iptables packet filtering code 146 David Korn Wrote the Korn shell 147 Avi Bryant Co-founder Dabble DB 148 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Wrote Gnus and Gmane 149 Doug Lea Concurrency expert and systems programmer. 150 Adele Goldberg Smalltalk designer and documenter. 151 Austin Meyer Author of X-Plane and Space Combat flight simulators 152 Paul Haeberli Computer graphics researcher 153 Craig McClanahan Original author of Apache Struts 154 Will Crowther Wrote Adventure and the inner packet processing loop of the original internet IMPs 155 Arthur Whitney Invented A+ and K languages and wrote prototype of J language 156 Peter Weinberger The W in AWK 157 Thomas Enebo Principle JRuby developer 158 John Vlissides One of the Gang of Four 159 Dominic Giampaolo Wrote BeOS file system 160 Mike Karels System architect of BSD 4.3 and 4.4 releases. 161 Rob Barnaby Worked some on early Logo, wrote Word Star. Also did Stringcomp, an early string processing language. 162 Mark Maybee Worked on ZFS DMU at Sun. 163 Dan Sugalski Original architect of Parrot VM 164 Mark Fletcher Founder Bloglines, egroups 165 Graham Spencer Co-founder Excite & Jot-Spot 166 Paul Mackerras Samba developer 167 Val Henson Kernel hacker and file systems specialist. 168 Jeff Bonwick Chief architect of ZFS 169 Rainer Joswig Contributes to CL-HTTP 170 Joel Reymont Open Poker 171 Peter-Paul Koch Javascript guru. Maintains quirksmode website. 172 Frank Heart Managed the group that built the ARPANET. 173 Evan Williams Twitter 174 Chrilly Donninger Author of the Hydra chess program. 175 Richard Fateman Computer algebraist. Worked on MacSysma and Maxima 176 Alan Cox One of Linus Torvalds's main lieutenants. Wrote Linux TCP/IP code. 177 Stephen Wolfram Invented Mathematica 178 Philip Greenspun Author of Greenspun's Tenth Law and sometimes instructor at MIT 179 Bill Gosper One of the original MIT hackers. Worked on Lisp machines, Maclisp, and Macsyma 180 Whitfield Diffie Discovered principle of public key cryptography 181 Sergey Brin Founded Google 182 Gregor Kiczales Wrote Common Lisp MOP. Invented Aspect Oriented programming. 183 Alexander Stepanov Author of the Standard Template Library for C++ 184 Larry Page Founded Google 185 Marc Andreessen Co-wrote Mosaic. Founded Netscape. 186 Danny Hillis Founder of Thinking Machines 187 Vinton Cerf Father of TCP/IP 188 Van Jacobson Redesigned TCP/IP flow control algorithms, saving the net from total collapse. Eponymous inventor of Van Jacobson TCP/IP header compression. 189 Bill Gates Wrote BASIC for Altair 190 Henry Baker One of the founder of Symbolics; comp sci. researcher 191 Brad Cox Invented Objective C 192 Jonathan Rees Designed T dialect of Scheme and co-wrote Scheme 48 193 Ivan Sutherland Invented Sketchpad, precursor to modern GUIs 194 Mark Shuttleworth Founded Thawte and Ubuntu project. Previously a Debian developer 195 Ingo Molnár Linux hacker, author of many Linux perfomance improvements. 196 Kent Pitman Technical Editor of Common Lisp ANSI standard 197 Jon Bentley Author of Programming Pearls books. 198 Tom Duff Invented Duff's device and noted graphics programmer 199 Dave Fox Lisp hacker, directior of Lispworks Ltd. 200 Marco Baringer Common Lisp hacker, author of Uncommon Web 201 John Foderaro Original author of Franz's Allegro Common Lisp 202 Elizabeth Rather Colleague of Chuck Moore and second ever Forth programmer 203 Rasmus Lerdorf Invented PHP 204 Steve Russell One of John McCarthy's grad students. Brought Lisp to life by hand-coding EVAL in assembler. Wrote Spacewar. 205 Ellen Spertus Head of Interdisciplinary Computer Science department at Mills College 206 Charles Nutter Principle JRuby developer 207 Edward Feigenbaum Father of Expert Systems 208 Tom Lord Scheme and C hacker. Wrote GNU Arch 209 Erich Gamma One of the Gang of Four 210 Mitchell Kapor Founded Lotus 211 Janus Friis Founder of Joost, Skype, Kazaa 212 Graham Nelson Invented Inform language used to program interatvive fiction 213 Mark Zuckerberg Founder and CEO of Facebook 214 Scott McKay Lisp and Dylan designer. 215 Paul Allen Co-founded Microsoft. 216 Richard Kelsey Co-wrote Scheme 48 and edited R5RS 217 Nick Bradbury Wrote HomeSite, TopStyle, and FeedDemon 218 John Gilmore Contributor to several GNU projects. Co-author of Bootstrap protocol which became DHCP. Founder of EFF, Cypherpunks mailing list, and Cygnus solutions. 219 Rick Olsen Core Rails developer, wrote Mephisto and Beast 220 Richard Karp Researcher in theory of algorithms 221 Roger Hui Implementor of of J language 222 Scott Meyers Author of Effective C++, More Effective C++, Effective STL 223 Russ Cox Worked on Plan 9. Represented U.S. at 1995 International Olympiad in Informatics 224 Peter Van Roy Contributor to Mozart/Oz programming system. Author of Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming 225 Matt Mackall Wrote Mecurial version control system. 226 Chris Wanstrath Notable Rails programmer 227 Niklas Zennstrom Founder of Joost, Skype, Kazaa 228 John Mashey Early Unix hacker 229 Gavin Schmidt Programmer on GISS climate modeling software. 230 Robert Martin Founder and CEO of Object Mentor. C++ and Agile methods expert. 231 Dan Geer Security expert 232 Neil Hodgson Wrote Scintilla and SciTE 233 Stefan Meyer-Kahlen Author of Shredder chess program 234 Alessandro Rubini Linux kernel hacker 235 Marcus Ranum Security expert and author of Firewall Toolkit and Network Flight Recorder 236 Richard Helm One of the Gang of Four 237 Charles Hedrick Lisp Unix hacker 238 Salvatore Sanfilippo Software developer and security expert 239 Sam Leffler BSD hacker. Wrote FreeBSD wi-fi drivers 240 Chris Torek BSDI os hacker 241 Jeff Mogul HP Fellow working on networking performance. Contributed to HTTP 1.1 spec 242 John Harper Wrote librep and the sawfish window manager 243 Spencer Janssen Wrote xmonad, a tiling window manager implemened in Haskell 244 Graeme Rocher Grails project lead 245 Erik Benson Cheif Janitorial Officer - Robot Coop 246 Sape Mullender Member of Technical Staff, Lucent Technologies,Bell Labs Innovations, Computing Sciences Research, Murray Hill, New Jersey. 247 Greg Linden Founder Findory & worked at Amazon 248 Dick Wall Co-host of the Java Posse podcast. Works at Google. 249 Spencer Kimball Co-wrote GIMP. Googler. 250 Peter Mattis Co-wrote GIMP. Googler. 251 Shay Bushinsky Co-author of Junior chess program. 252 Dennis Crawley DodgeBall 253 Biz Stone Twitter 254 Max Levchin Co-founder Pay Pal & Slide 255 Joel Spolsky FogCreekSoftware 256 Munjal Shah Co-founder Riya 257 Dierk Koenig. Groovy, Grails contributor 258 Rusty Bobrow BBNer doing work in computational linguistics, speech recognition, and artificial intelligence. 259 Simon Tatham Author of PuTTY 260 Eric Swildens Founder Microline Software, Co-founder Speedera Networks 261 Robert Thau Early Apache developer. Started Bianca Troll 262 Naval Ravikanth Founder vast.com 263 Sam Stephenson Created Prototype Javascript library 264 Hal Abelson Abelson of Abelson and Sussman. MIT professor. 265 Marvin Minsky Artifical Intelligence researcher 266 Bruce Schneier Security expert. Creator of Twofish block cipher. 267 Michael Feathers XP guru 268 Barry Boehem Software metrics guru 269 Brian Harvey UC Comp Sci professor. Author of Berkeley Logo 270 Rob McCool Wrote NCSA HTTPd; drafted Common Gateway Interface specification 271 Eric Allman Wrote sendmail 272 Andrew Hunt Co-founder of Pragmatic Programmers 273 Dave Thomas Co-founder of Pragmatic Programmers 274 Dan Piponi Graphics programmer and theorist. 275 Mathias Feist Co-author of Fritz chess program. 276 Eric Bina Co-wrote Mosaic. 277 Frans Morsch Co-author of Fritz chess program. 278 John Socha Wrote many DOS software packages for Norton Computing 279 Peter Norton Wrote the first version of the Norton Utilities 280 Jon Kleinberg Cornell Comp. Sci. professor. 281 Amir Ban Co-author of Junior chess program. 282 Watts Humphrey CMM guru. 283 Dan Weinreb Founder of Symbolics. Now at ITA. 284 Thomas Knoll Original creator of Photoshop.
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