Ali Aydar
Ali Aydar is a computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur.
He is the chief executive officer at Sporcle. He is best known as an
early employee and key technical contributor at the original Napster.
Aydar bought Fanning his first book on programming in C++, the language
he would use two years later to build the Napster file-sharing software.Anita Borg
Anita Borg (January 17, 1949 – April 6, 2003) was an American
computer scientist. She founded the Institute for Women and Technology
(now the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology). While at
Digital Equipment, she developed and patented a method for generating
complete address traces for analyzing and designing high-speed memory
systems.Alfred Aho
Alfred Aho (born August 9, 1941) is a Canadian computer
scientist best known for his work on programming languages, compilers,
and related algorithms, and his textbooks on the art and science of
computer programming. Aho received a B.A.Sc. in Engineering Physics from
the University of Toronto.Bjarne Stroustrup
Bjarne Stroustrup (born 30 December 1950) is a Danish computer
scientist, most notable for the creation and development of the widely
used C++ programming language. He is a Distinguished Research Professor
and holds the College of Engineering Chair in Computer Science.Bill Gates
Bill Gates (born October 28, 1955) is an American business
magnate, philanthropist, investor, computer programmer, and inventor.
Gates is the former chief executive and chairman of Microsoft, the
world’s largest personal-computer software company, which he co-founded
with Paul Allen.Bruce Arden
Bruce Arden (born in 1927 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an
American computer scientist. He graduated from Purdue University with a
BS(EE) in 1949 and started his computing career in 1950 with the wiring
and programming of IBM's hybrid (mechanical and electronic) Card
Programmed Computer/Calculator at the Allison Division of General
Motors.Brendan Eich
Brendan Eich (born 1960 or 1961)is an American technologist
and creator of the JavaScript scripting language. He cofounded the
Mozilla project, the Mozilla Foundation and the Mozilla Corporation, and
served as the Mozilla Corporation's chief technical officer and briefly
its chief executive officer.Barry Boehm
Barry Boehm (born 1935) is an American software engineer,
Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, Industrial and Systems
Engineering, the TRW Professor of Software Engineering. He is known for
his many contributions to the area of software engineering.Bert Bos
Bert Bos (born 10 November 1963, The Hague, Netherlands) is a
computer scientist. He studied mathematics at the University of
Groningen, and wrote his PhD thesis on Rapid user interface development
with the script language Gist. In 1996, he joined the World Wide Web
Consortium (W3C) to work on Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).Bryan Cantrill
Bryan Cantrill (born 1973) is an American Software Engineer
who worked at Sun Microsystems and later at Oracle Corporation following
its acquisition of Sun. Cantrill was included in the TR35 list for his
development of DTrace, a function of the OS Solaris 10 that provides a
non-invasive means for real-time tracing and diagnosis of software. He
is currently Chief Technology Officer at Joyent.Charles Babbage
Charles Babbage FRS (26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871) was
an English polymath. He was a mathematician, philosopher, inventor and
mechanical engineer, who is best remembered now for originating the
concept of a programmable computer.Dennis Ritchie
Dennis Ritchie(September 9, 1941 – c. October 12, 2011) was an
American computer scientist. He created the C programming language and,
with long-time colleague Ken Thompson, the Unix operating system.
Ritchie and Thompson received the Turing Award from the ACM in 1983.David J. Brown
David J. Brown is an American computer scientist. He was one
of a small group that helped to develop the system at Stanford that
later resulted in Sun Microsystems, and later was a founder Silicon
Graphics in 1982. He define the application binary interface for
Solaris, Sun's principal system software product.Edgar F. Codd
Edgar F. Codd (August 19, 1923 – April 18, 2003) was an
English computer scientist who, while working for IBM, invented the
relational model for database management, the theoretical basis for
relational databases. He made other valuable contributions to computer
science.Frances Allen
Frances Allen (born August 4, 1932) is an American computer
scientist and pioneer in the field of optimizing compilers. Her
achievements include seminal work in compilers, code optimization, and
parallelization. She also had a role in intelligence work on programming
languages.Gordon Bell
Gordon Bell (born August 19, 1934) is an American electrical
engineer and manager. An early employee of Digital Equipment Corporation
(DEC) 1960–1966, Bell designed several of their PDP machines and later
became Vice President of Engineering 1972-1983, overseeing the
development of the VAX.Gregory Chaitin
Gregory Chaitin (born 15th. November, 1947 in Argentina) is an
Argentine-American mathematician and computer scientist. Beginning in
the late 1960s, Chaitin made contributions to algorithmic information
theory and metamathematics, in particular an computer-theoretic result
equivalent to Godel's incompleteness theorem.James Gosling
James Gosling OC (born May 19, 1955) is a Canadian computer
scientist, best known as the father of the Java programming language. In
1977, Gosling received a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from
the University of Calgary.John Backus
John 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 the
inventor of the Backus-Naur form (BNF), a widely used notation to define
formal language syntax.Jon Crowcroft
John Crowcroft (born 23 November 1957) is the Marconi
Professor of Communications Systems in the Computer Laboratory of the
University of Cambridge. Professor Jon Crowcroft is distinguished for
his many seminal contributions to the development of the Internet. His
work on satellite link interconnection techniques in the 1980s paved the
way for rural broadband.Larry Page
Larry Page (born March 26, 1973) is an American business
magnate and computer scientist who is the co-founder of Google,
alongside Sergey Brin. On April 4, 2011, Page succeeded Eric Schmidt as
the chief executive officer of Google. As of 2014, Page's personal
wealth is estimated to be US$32. 3 billion, ranking him #19 on the
Forbes list of billionaires.Larry Wall
Larry Wall (born September 27, 1954) is a computer programmer
and author, most widely known as the creator of the Perl programming
language and Camelia, the spunky spokesbug for Perl 6. Wall grew up in
south Los Angeles and then Bremerton, Washington, before starting higher
education at Seattle Pacific University in 1976.Linus Torvalds
Linus Benedict Torvalds (born December 28, 1969) is a Finnish
American software engineer, and he is well known for the architect and
development of the Linux kernel. He was honored, along with Shinya
Yamanaka, with the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize by the Technology
Academy Finland "in recognition of his creation of a new open source
operating system for computers leading to the widely used Linux kernel.Luis Von Ahn
Luis Von Ahn (born 1979) is a Guatemalan entrepreneur and an
associate professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie
Mellon University. He is known as one of the pioneers of crowdsourcing.
He is the founder of the company reCAPTCHA, which was sold to Google in
2009, and the co-founder and CEO of Duolingo, a popular
language-learning platform.Luca Cardelli
Luca Cardelli FRS is an Italian computer scientist who is an
Assistant Director at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK. Cardelli is
well known for his research in type theory and operational semantics.
Among other contributions, he helped design Modula-3, implemented the
first compiler for the (non-pure) functional programming language ML.Michael Dell
Michael Dell (born February 23, 1965) is an American business
magnate, investor, philanthropist, and author. He is known as the
founder and CEO of Dell Inc., one of the world’s leading sellers of
personal computers (PCs).Michael Dertouzos
Michael Dertouzos (November 5, 1936 - August 27, 2001) was a
Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Director of
the M.I.T. Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) from 1974 to 2001.
During Dertouzos's term, LCS innovated in a variety of areas, including
RSA encryption, the spreadsheet, the NuBus, the X Window System, and the
Internet.Maurice Vincent Wilkes
Maurice Vincent Wilkes (26 June 1913 – 29 November 2010) was a
British computer scientist credited with several important developments
in computing. At the time of his death, Wilkes was an Emeritus
Professor of the University of Cambridge. He received a number of
distinctions.Nello Cristianini
Nello Cristianini (born 1968) is a Professor of Artificial
Intelligence at the University of Bristol, a recipient of the Royal
Society Wolfson Research Merit Award. His research contributions across
different areas, such as machine learning, artificial intelligence and
bioinformatics. Specifically, his work is concentrated in the
statistical analysis of the learning algorithms.Philip Don Estridge
Philip Don Estridge (June 23, 1937 - August 2, 1985), known as
Don Estridge, led development of the original IBM Personal Computer
(PC), and thus is known as "father of the IBM PC". His decisions
dramatically changed the computer industry, resulting in a vast increase
in the number of personal computers sold and bought.Philip Matthaus Hahn
Philipp November 25, 1739 in Scharnhausen, today part of
Ostfildern - May 2, 1790 in Echterdingen, today part of
Leinfelden-Echterdingen) was a German priest and inventor. In about 1763
he devised a precision sundial, or heliochronometer that incorporated
the correction for the equation of time.Per Brinch Hansen
Per Brinch Hansen (November 13, 1938 – July 31, 2007) was a
Danish-American computer scientist known for concurrent programming
theory. In 1970, his research in computer science focused on concurrent
programming, Inspired by Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard's
programming language Simula 67, he invented the monitor concept in 1972.Rasmus Lerdorf
Rasmus Lerdorf (born 22 November 1968) is a Greenlandic
programmer with Canadian citizenship. He created the PHP scripting
language, authoring the first two versions of the language and
participating in the development of later versions led by a group of
developers including Jim Winstead.Richard Stallman
Richard Stallman (born March 16, 1953) is an American is a
software freedom activist and computer programmer. He is best known for
launching the GNU Project, founding the Free Software Foundation,
developing the GNU Compiler Collection and GNU Emacs, and writing the
GNU General Public License.Robert S. Boyer
Robert S.Boyer is a retired professor of computer science,
mathematics, and philosophy at The University of Texas at Austin. He and
J Strother Moore invented the Boyer–Moore string search algorithm, a
particularly efficient string searching algorithm, in 1977. He and Moore
also collaborated on the Boyer–Moore automated theorem prover, Nqthm,
in 1992.Robert Bob Kahn
Robert "Bob" Kahn (born December 23, 1938) is an Amercian
engineer who is well-regarded as one of "the fathers the Internet"
sharing this title with American Internet pioneer Vint Cerf. In December
1997, Kahn and Cerf received the U.S. National Medal of Technology, for
founding and developing the Internet. Kahn is the co-inventor of the
TCP/IP protocols, the most important communication protocol of the
Internet. He was responsible for originating DARPA’s Internet program.In 2004, Kahn was the recipient of the prestigious ACM Alan M. Turing award. In 2005, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom - the highest civilian award of the United States.
Sabeer Bhatia
Sabeer Bhatia was born in Chandigarh on 30 December 1968. He
grew up in Bangalore and had his early education at the Bishop's School
in Pune and then at St Joseph's Boys High School in Bangalore. Sabeer
Bhatia is an Indian American entrepreneur who founded the Hotmail email
service and Jaxt.Sergey brin
Sergey Brin (born August 21, 1973) is an American computer
scientist and internet entrepreneur who, with Larry Page, co-founded
Google, one of the most profitable Internet companies. As of June 2014,
his personal wealth was estimated to be US$ 30 billion. Together, Brin
and Page own about 16 percent of the company.Serge Abiteboul
Serge Abiteboul is a computer scientist working in the areas
of data management, database theory, and finite model theory. He is
currently a senior researcher at the Institute national de recherche en
informatique et en automatique (INRIA), the French national research
institute focussing on computer science and related areas, and has been a
professor of the College de France.Steve Jobs
Better known as the co-founder of Apple Computers, Steve Jobs was an
American inventor who pioneered the microcomputer revolution in the
1970s and 1980s. Born in San Francisco, California, Jobs laid the
foundation of Apple Computers in 1976, along with his partner Steve
Wozniak.Under Steve's leadership, Apple had launched a series of revolutionary products such as iPhone, iPod, and iPad that had a major contribution in modern technology. Steve is also known as the architect of Macintosh, the widely popular operating system that catalyzed the mass production of computers with a GUI. Steve passed away in 2011 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer.
Tim Berners Lee
Tim Berners Lee (born 8 June 1955), also known as "TimBL", is a
British computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World
Wide Web. Berners Lee is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium
(W3C), which oversees the Web's continued development.Vint Cerf
Vint Cerf ( born June 23, 1943) is an American internet
pioneer, who is recognized as one of "the fathers of the Internet",
sharing this title with American engineer Bob Kahn. His contributions
have been acknowledged and lauded, repeatedly. He was instrumental in
the development of the first commercial email system (MCI Mail)
connected to the Internet.
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