Significant Contributors to Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Communications and Telecommunications
(last updated: 18-May-2015 18:48)
Contributors
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Alfred Vaino Aho (born 1941) -- co creator of awk language; co author of
books on compilers and on programming.
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Paul Gardner Allen (born 1953) -- co creator of MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows;
co founder of Microsoft Corporation.
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Gene Myron Amdahl (born 1922) -- designer of mainframe computers at IBM; chief
architect of IBM S/360; founder of Amdahl Corporation.
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Harlan Anderson (born 1929) -- co founder of Digital Equipment Corporation
(DEC).
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Marc Lowell Andreesen (born 1971) -- co creator of Mosaic web browser;
co founder of Netscape Communications.
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Alan C. Ashton (born 1942) -- co creator of WordPerfect word processor; co
founder of WordPerfect Software company.
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Maurice J. Bach -- author of book on design and internals of the Unix
operating system.
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John Warner Backus (1924-2007) -- leader of team that designed FORTRAN;
co creator of Backus-Naur Form (BNF) notation.
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John Bardeen (1908-1991) -- co inventor of the transistor.
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Bruce Wayne Bastian (born 1948) -- co creator of WordPerfect word processor;
co founder of WordPerfect Software company.
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Chester Gordon Bell (born 1934) -- early employee of DEC; designed several of
the DEC PDP computers; VP of Engineering who oversaw development of the DEC
VAX computer.
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Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee (born 1955) -- inventor of the World Wide Web.
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Eric J. Bina (born 1964)-- co creator of Mosaic web browser; co founder of
Netscape Communications.
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Uyless D. Black -- author of books on data communications and on
telecommunications.
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Grady Booch (born 1955) -- co creator and co developer of UML.
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Stephen Richard "Steve" Bourne (born 1944) -- creator of Bourne shell.
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Daniel Pierre Bovet -- co author of books on the Linux kernel.
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Raymond F. "Ray" Boyce (died 1974) -- co creator of SQL.
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Marshall David Brain (born 1961) -- author of books on Microsoft Windows
system services.
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Walter Houser Brattain (1902-1987) -- co inventor of the transistor.
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Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin (born 1973) -- co founder of Google.
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Frederick Phillips "Fred" Brooks Jr. (born 1931) -- managed development of IBM
S/360 family and OS/360; author of "The Mythical Man Month".
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Gary Deward Brown -- author of books on JCL, on COBOL and on IBM mainframe
computers.
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Vinton Gray "Vint" Cerf (born 1943) -- co inventor of IP and TCP protocols,
co father of the Internet.
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Marco Cesati -- co author of books on the Linux kernel.
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Donald D. Chamberlin (born 1944) -- co creator of SQL.
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William F. Clocksin -- co author of books on Prolog.
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Edgar Frank "Ted" Codd (1923-2003) -- researcher on relational databases.
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Gerald Combs -- creator of Ethereal/Wireshark.
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Douglas Earl Comer -- author of books on TCP/IP protocols family, on computer
networks and network programming, and on operating systems.
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Gary Cornell -- co author of books on Java.
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Brad J. Cox -- author of books on object oriented analysis, design and
programming; inventor of Objective-C programming language.
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David Neil Cutler (born 1942) -- developer of RSX-11M, VMS and Windows NT
operating systems.
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Christopher J. "Chris" Date (born 1941) -- creator of DB2; author of books
on database systems and on SQL.
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Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (1930-2002) -- computer scientist; inventor of sempahore
construct; inventor of many important algorithms; advocate of structured
programming.
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Brendan Eich (born 1961) -- creator of JavaScript.
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Lawrence Joseph "Larry" Ellison (born 1944) -- creator of Oracle database
system; founder and former CEO of Oracle Corporation.
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Matthias Ettrich (born 1972) -- creator of K Desktop Environment (KDE).
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Marc Ewing (born 1969) -- creator of "Red Hat Linux" Linux distribution;
co creator of Red Hat Package Manager (RPM).
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Frederico Faggin (born 1941) -- creator of Intel 4004 microprocessor, Intel's
first microprocessor.
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Stuart Feldman -- creator of make.
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James David Foley (born 1942) -- co author of books on computer graphics.
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Brian J. Fox (born 1959) -- creator of bash shell.
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William Henry "Bill" Gates III (born 1955) -- co creator of MS-DOS and
Microsoft Windows; co founder of Microsoft Corporation.
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James "Jim" Gettys -- co creator of the X Window System.
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Adele Goldberg (born 1945) -- co creator of Smalltalk.
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Charles F. Goldfarb -- co developer of IBM's Generalized Markup Language
(GML); "the father of SGML"; editor of SGML international standard; author of
books on SGML.
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James Arthur Gosling (born 1955) -- creator of Java; co-author of books on
Java.
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Andrew Stephen "Andy" Grove (born 1936) -- third employee of Intel; long time
leader of Intel.
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Dick Grune (born 1939) -- creator of CVS.
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Ed Hamrick -- creator of VueScan.
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Anders Hejlsberg (born 1960) -- creator and lead architect of C#; creator of
Turbo Pascal; chief architect of Delphi.
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Gilbert Held -- author of books on Ethernet and on data communications.
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William Redington "Bill" Hewlett (1913-2001) -- co founder of Hewlett-Packard.
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Charles Anthony Richard "Tony" Hoare (born 1934) -- developed quicksort
algorithm; developed Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP).
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Kristian Hogsberg -- creator of Wayland display server protocol.
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Herman Hollerith (1860-1929) -- inventor of punched card tabulating machine.
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Grace Brewster Murray Hopper (1906-1992) -- creator of COBOL.
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Cay S. Horstmann -- co author of books on Java.
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Joan K. Hughes -- author of books on PL/I programming.
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Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls Jr. (born 1944) -- designer and implementor of
multiple Smalltalk environments; designer of Smalltalk bytecoded virtual
machine.
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Kenneth Eugene Iverson (1920-2004) -- designer of APL.
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Ivar Hjalmar Jacobson (born 1939) - co creator and co developer of UML.
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Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs (1955-2011) -- co founder of Apple Computer; founder
of NeXT Computer.
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John Erik Jonsson (1901-1995) -- co founder of Texas Instruments.
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William Nelson "Bill" Joy (born 1954) -- creator of vi text editor; creator
of C shell; lead designer for BSD Unix development; co founder of Sun
Microsystems.
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Philippe Kahn (born 1952) -- founder and long time CEO of Borland.
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Robert Elliott "Bob" Kahn (born 1938) -- co inventor of IP and TCP protocols;
co father of the Internet.
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Alan Curtis Kay (born 1940) -- designer of early versions of Smalltalk.
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John George Kemeny (1926-1992) -- co creator of BASIC.
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Brian Wilson Kernighan (born 1942) -- co creator of awk language; co author of
books on C programming language.
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Jack St. Clair Kilby (1923-2005) -- co implementor of first integrated
circuit.
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Gary Arlen Kildall (1942-1994) -- creator of CP/M operating system; founder of
Digital Research Inc.
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Spencer Kimball -- co creator of GIMP.
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Leonard Kleinrock (born 1934) -- important contributions to computer
networking, queuing theory and packet switching; author of books on queuing
systems.
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Donald Ervin Knuth (born 1938) -- author of books on computer algorithms;
creator of TeX.
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David Korn -- creator of Korn shell; author of books on Korn shell.
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Thomas Eugene Kurtz (born 1928) -- co creator of BASIC.
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Leslie B. Lamport (born 1941) -- creator of LaTeX.
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Rasmus Lerdorf (born 1968) -- initial creator of PHP.
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Stanley B. Lippmann -- author of books on C++.
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Matt Mackall -- creator and lead developer of Mercurial.
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Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto (born 1965) -- creator of Ruby.
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Peter Mattis -- co creator of GIMP.
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John McCarthy (1927-2011) -- inventor of Lisp.
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Daniel D. McCracken (1930-2011) -- author of books on Fortran programming.
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Malcolm Douglas "Doug" McIlroy (born 1932) -- significant contributor to
development of the Unix operating system, including the diff utility.
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Scott McNealy (born 1954) -- co founder of Sun Microsystems.
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Christopher S. Mellish -- co author of books on Prolog.
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Robert Melancton "Bob" Metcalfe (born 1946) -- co inventor of Ethernet;
co founder of 3Com.
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Bertrand D. Meyer -- designer of Eiffel; author of books on object oriented
analysis, design and programming.
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Cleve Barry Moler (born 1939) -- original developer of MATLAB.
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Bram Moolenaar (born 1961) -- creator of Vim text editor.
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Gordon Earle Moore (born 1929) -- co founder of Intel; author of Moore's law.
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Peter Naur (born 1928) -- co creator of Backus-Naur Form (BNF) notation.
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Robert Norton Noyce (1927-1990) -- co implementor of first integrated circuit;
co founder of Intel.
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Tim O'Reilly (born 1954) -- founder of O'Reilly & Associates book publishing
company.
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Martin Odersky (born 1958) -- initial developer of Scala.
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Kenneth Harry "Ken" Olsen (1926-2011) -- co founder of Digital Equipment
Corporation (DEC).
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Adam Osborne (1939-2003) -- creator of the first microprocessor-based portable
computer, the Osborne 1; founder of Osborne & Associates, pioneer publishers
of computer books.
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John Kenneth Ousterhout (born 1954) -- creator of Tcl.
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David Packard (1912-1996) -- co founder of Hewlett-Packard.
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Lawrence "Larry" Page (born 1973) -- co founder of Google.
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Radia Joy Perlman (born 1951) -- inventor of the Spanning Tree Protocol (STP);
author of "Interconnections" book.
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James L. Peterson -- co author of books on operating systems.
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Charles Petzold (born 1953) -- author of books on Microsoft Windows
programming.
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Robert "Rob" Pike (born 1956) -- contributed to development of Unix, Plan 9
and Inferno operating systems and Limbo programming language; co author of
book on Unix programming; co developer of Go programming language.
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Jonathan Bruce Postel (1943-1998) -- significant contributor to development of
the Internet, including Internet standards; RFCs Editor until his death;
Director of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) until his death.
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Eric Steven Raymond (born 1957) -- author of "The Cathedral and the Bazaar";
voice in the open source software movement.
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Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie (1941-2011) -- co creator of Unix operating
system; creator of C programming language; co author of books on C.
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Marc J. Rochkind -- creator of Source Code Control System; author of books
on Unix programming.
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James E. Rumbaugh (born 1947) -- creator of Object Modeling Technique (OMT);
co creator and co developer of UML.
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Stephen "Steve" Russell (born 1937) -- first implementor of Lisp.
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Walter Jeremiah "Jerry" Sanders III (born 1936) -- lead founder of Advanced
Micro Devices (AMD).
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Lawrence Mark "Larry" Sanger (born 1968) -- first chief editor of Wikipedia.
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Steven J. Sasson (born 1950) -- inventor of the digital camera.
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Robert William "Bob" Schiefler (born 1954) -- co creator of the X Window
System.
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Robert Sedgewick (born 1946) -- author of books on algorithms.
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William Bradford Shockley Jr. (1910-1989) -- co inventor of the transistor.
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Abraham A. "Avi" Silberschatz -- co author of books on operating systems and
on databases.
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Irfan Skiljan -- creator of IrfanView.
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William Stallings -- author of books on data communications, on operating
systems and on computer architecture.
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Richard Matthew Stallman (born 1953) -- founder of Free Software Foundation;
advocate of open source software; creator of Emacs, GNU compiler collection
and GDB.
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Thomas A. Standish -- author of book on data structures and algorithms.
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Gary Keith Starkweather (born 1938) -- inventor of the laser printer.
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William Richard "Rich" Stevens (1951-1999) -- author of books on TCP/IP
protocol family, on Unix programming and on Unix network programming.
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Bjarne Stroustrup (born 1950) -- creator of C++; author of books on C++.
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Almon Brown Strowger (1839-1902) -- inventor of first practical automatic
telephone exchange.
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Matthew J. Szulik -- former chairman of Red Hat Inc.
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Andrew Stuart "Andy" Tanenbaum (born 1944) -- author of books on operating
systems and on data communications; creator of MINIX.
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Kenneth "Ken" Thompson (born 1943) -- co creator of Unix operating system; co
designer of Go programming language.
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Walter F. Tichy -- creator of RCS.
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Raymond Samuel "Ray" Tomlinson -- inventor of electronic mail.
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Linus Benedict Torvalds (born 1969) -- creator and lead architect of Linux;
creator of Git.
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Andrew "Tridge" Tridgell (born 1967) -- creator of Samba.
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Erik Troan -- co creator of Red Hat Package Manager (RPM); former Chief
Developer at Red Hat Software.
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Alan Mathison Turing (1912-1954) -- pioneering computer scientist; developed
formalizations of algorithms and computation; devised the Turing machine.
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Jeffrey David "Jeff" Ullman (born 1942) -- co author of books on compilers,
on algorithms and on database systems.
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Andries "Andy" Van Dam (born 1938) -- co author of books on computer graphics.
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Guido Van Rossum (born 1956) -- principal creator of Python.
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John von Neumann (1903-1957) -- creator of von Neumann computer architecture.
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Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales (born 1966) -- founder of Wikipedia.
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Larry Wall (born 1954) -- creator of Perl.
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Thomas John Watson (1874-1956) -- chairman and CEO of IBM 1914-1956.
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Peter Jay Weinberger (born 1942) -- co creator of awk language.
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Niklaus Emil Wirth (born 1934) -- creator of Pascal, Modula, Modula-2 and
Oberon programming languages.
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Stephen Gary "Steve" Wozniak (born 1950) -- co founder of Apple Computer.
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Tatu Ylonen -- inventor of Secure Shell (SSH); founder of SSH Communications
Security.
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Robert "Bob" Young -- founder of Red Hat Software (later Red Hat Inc.);
co founder of Linux Journal.
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Philip R. "Phil" Zimmermann (born 1954) -- creator of Pretty Good Privacy
(PGP).
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Mark Elliott Zuckerberg (born 1984) -- co founder of Facebook.