Significant Contributors to Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Communications and Telecommunications

(last updated: 18-May-2015 18:48)
 

Contributors

  1. Alfred Vaino Aho (born 1941) -- co creator of awk language; co author of books on compilers and on programming.
     
  2. Paul Gardner Allen (born 1953) -- co creator of MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows; co founder of Microsoft Corporation.
     
  3. Gene Myron Amdahl (born 1922) -- designer of mainframe computers at IBM; chief architect of IBM S/360; founder of Amdahl Corporation.
     
  4. Harlan Anderson (born 1929) -- co founder of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC).
     
  5. Marc Lowell Andreesen (born 1971) -- co creator of Mosaic web browser; co founder of Netscape Communications.
     
  6. Alan C. Ashton (born 1942) -- co creator of WordPerfect word processor; co founder of WordPerfect Software company.
     
  7. Maurice J. Bach -- author of book on design and internals of the Unix operating system.
     
  8. John Warner Backus (1924-2007) -- leader of team that designed FORTRAN; co creator of Backus-Naur Form (BNF) notation.
     
  9. John Bardeen (1908-1991) -- co inventor of the transistor.
     
  10. Bruce Wayne Bastian (born 1948) -- co creator of WordPerfect word processor; co founder of WordPerfect Software company.
     
  11. 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.
     
  12. Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee (born 1955) -- inventor of the World Wide Web.
     
  13. Eric J. Bina (born 1964)-- co creator of Mosaic web browser; co founder of Netscape Communications.
     
  14. Uyless D. Black -- author of books on data communications and on telecommunications.
     
  15. Grady Booch (born 1955) -- co creator and co developer of UML.
     
  16. Stephen Richard "Steve" Bourne (born 1944) -- creator of Bourne shell.
     
  17. Daniel Pierre Bovet -- co author of books on the Linux kernel.
     
  18. Raymond F. "Ray" Boyce (died 1974) -- co creator of SQL.
     
  19. Marshall David Brain (born 1961) -- author of books on Microsoft Windows system services.
     
  20. Walter Houser Brattain (1902-1987) -- co inventor of the transistor.
     
  21. Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin (born 1973) -- co founder of Google.
     
  22. Frederick Phillips "Fred" Brooks Jr. (born 1931) -- managed development of IBM S/360 family and OS/360; author of "The Mythical Man Month".
     
  23. Gary Deward Brown -- author of books on JCL, on COBOL and on IBM mainframe computers.
     
  24. Vinton Gray "Vint" Cerf (born 1943) -- co inventor of IP and TCP protocols, co father of the Internet.
     
  25. Marco Cesati -- co author of books on the Linux kernel.
     
  26. Donald D. Chamberlin (born 1944) -- co creator of SQL.
     
  27. William F. Clocksin -- co author of books on Prolog.
     
  28. Edgar Frank "Ted" Codd (1923-2003) -- researcher on relational databases.
     
  29. Gerald Combs -- creator of Ethereal/Wireshark.
     
  30. Douglas Earl Comer -- author of books on TCP/IP protocols family, on computer networks and network programming, and on operating systems.
     
  31. Gary Cornell -- co author of books on Java.
     
  32. Brad J. Cox -- author of books on object oriented analysis, design and programming; inventor of Objective-C programming language.
     
  33. David Neil Cutler (born 1942) -- developer of RSX-11M, VMS and Windows NT operating systems.
     
  34. Christopher J. "Chris" Date (born 1941) -- creator of DB2; author of books on database systems and on SQL.
     
  35. Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (1930-2002) -- computer scientist; inventor of sempahore construct; inventor of many important algorithms; advocate of structured programming.
     
  36. Brendan Eich (born 1961) -- creator of JavaScript.
     
  37. Lawrence Joseph "Larry" Ellison (born 1944) -- creator of Oracle database system; founder and former CEO of Oracle Corporation.
     
  38. Matthias Ettrich (born 1972) -- creator of K Desktop Environment (KDE).
     
  39. Marc Ewing (born 1969) -- creator of "Red Hat Linux" Linux distribution; co creator of Red Hat Package Manager (RPM).
     
  40. Frederico Faggin (born 1941) -- creator of Intel 4004 microprocessor, Intel's first microprocessor.
     
  41. Stuart Feldman -- creator of make.
     
  42. James David Foley (born 1942) -- co author of books on computer graphics.
     
  43. Brian J. Fox (born 1959) -- creator of bash shell.
     
  44. William Henry "Bill" Gates III (born 1955) -- co creator of MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows; co founder of Microsoft Corporation.
     
  45. James "Jim" Gettys -- co creator of the X Window System.
     
  46. Adele Goldberg (born 1945) -- co creator of Smalltalk.
     
  47. 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.
     
  48. James Arthur Gosling (born 1955) -- creator of Java; co-author of books on Java.
     
  49. Andrew Stephen "Andy" Grove (born 1936) -- third employee of Intel; long time leader of Intel.
     
  50. Dick Grune (born 1939) -- creator of CVS.
     
  51. Ed Hamrick -- creator of VueScan.
     
  52. Anders Hejlsberg (born 1960) -- creator and lead architect of C#; creator of Turbo Pascal; chief architect of Delphi.
     
  53. Gilbert Held -- author of books on Ethernet and on data communications.
     
  54. William Redington "Bill" Hewlett (1913-2001) -- co founder of Hewlett-Packard.
     
  55. Charles Anthony Richard "Tony" Hoare (born 1934) -- developed quicksort algorithm; developed Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP).
     
  56. Kristian Hogsberg -- creator of Wayland display server protocol.
     
  57. Herman Hollerith (1860-1929) -- inventor of punched card tabulating machine.
     
  58. Grace Brewster Murray Hopper (1906-1992) -- creator of COBOL.
     
  59. Cay S. Horstmann -- co author of books on Java.
     
  60. Joan K. Hughes -- author of books on PL/I programming.
     
  61. Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls Jr. (born 1944) -- designer and implementor of multiple Smalltalk environments; designer of Smalltalk bytecoded virtual machine.
     
  62. Kenneth Eugene Iverson (1920-2004) -- designer of APL.
     
  63. Ivar Hjalmar Jacobson (born 1939) - co creator and co developer of UML.
     
  64. Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs (1955-2011) -- co founder of Apple Computer; founder of NeXT Computer.
     
  65. John Erik Jonsson (1901-1995) -- co founder of Texas Instruments.
     
  66. 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.
     
  67. Philippe Kahn (born 1952) -- founder and long time CEO of Borland.
     
  68. Robert Elliott "Bob" Kahn (born 1938) -- co inventor of IP and TCP protocols; co father of the Internet.
     
  69. Alan Curtis Kay (born 1940) -- designer of early versions of Smalltalk.
     
  70. John George Kemeny (1926-1992) -- co creator of BASIC.
     
  71. Brian Wilson Kernighan (born 1942) -- co creator of awk language; co author of books on C programming language.
     
  72. Jack St. Clair Kilby (1923-2005) -- co implementor of first integrated circuit.
     
  73. Gary Arlen Kildall (1942-1994) -- creator of CP/M operating system; founder of Digital Research Inc.
     
  74. Spencer Kimball -- co creator of GIMP.
     
  75. Leonard Kleinrock (born 1934) -- important contributions to computer networking, queuing theory and packet switching; author of books on queuing systems.
     
  76. Donald Ervin Knuth (born 1938) -- author of books on computer algorithms; creator of TeX.
     
  77. David Korn -- creator of Korn shell; author of books on Korn shell.
     
  78. Thomas Eugene Kurtz (born 1928) -- co creator of BASIC.
     
  79. Leslie B. Lamport (born 1941) -- creator of LaTeX.
     
  80. Rasmus Lerdorf (born 1968) -- initial creator of PHP.
     
  81. Stanley B. Lippmann -- author of books on C++.
     
  82. Matt Mackall -- creator and lead developer of Mercurial.
     
  83. Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto (born 1965) -- creator of Ruby.
     
  84. Peter Mattis -- co creator of GIMP.
     
  85. John McCarthy (1927-2011) -- inventor of Lisp.
     
  86. Daniel D. McCracken (1930-2011) -- author of books on Fortran programming.
     
  87. Malcolm Douglas "Doug" McIlroy (born 1932) -- significant contributor to development of the Unix operating system, including the diff utility.
     
  88. Scott McNealy (born 1954) -- co founder of Sun Microsystems.
     
  89. Christopher S. Mellish -- co author of books on Prolog.
     
  90. Robert Melancton "Bob" Metcalfe (born 1946) -- co inventor of Ethernet; co founder of 3Com.
     
  91. Bertrand D. Meyer -- designer of Eiffel; author of books on object oriented analysis, design and programming.
     
  92. Cleve Barry Moler (born 1939) -- original developer of MATLAB.
     
  93. Bram Moolenaar (born 1961) -- creator of Vim text editor.
     
  94. Gordon Earle Moore (born 1929) -- co founder of Intel; author of Moore's law.
     
  95. Peter Naur (born 1928) -- co creator of Backus-Naur Form (BNF) notation.
     
  96. Robert Norton Noyce (1927-1990) -- co implementor of first integrated circuit; co founder of Intel.
     
  97. Tim O'Reilly (born 1954) -- founder of O'Reilly & Associates book publishing company.
     
  98. Martin Odersky (born 1958) -- initial developer of Scala.
     
  99. Kenneth Harry "Ken" Olsen (1926-2011) -- co founder of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC).
     
  100. Adam Osborne (1939-2003) -- creator of the first microprocessor-based portable computer, the Osborne 1; founder of Osborne & Associates, pioneer publishers of computer books.
     
  101. John Kenneth Ousterhout (born 1954) -- creator of Tcl.
     
  102. David Packard (1912-1996) -- co founder of Hewlett-Packard.
     
  103. Lawrence "Larry" Page (born 1973) -- co founder of Google.
     
  104. Radia Joy Perlman (born 1951) -- inventor of the Spanning Tree Protocol (STP); author of "Interconnections" book.
     
  105. James L. Peterson -- co author of books on operating systems.
     
  106. Charles Petzold (born 1953) -- author of books on Microsoft Windows programming.
     
  107. 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.
     
  108. 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.
     
  109. Eric Steven Raymond (born 1957) -- author of "The Cathedral and the Bazaar"; voice in the open source software movement.
     
  110. Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie (1941-2011) -- co creator of Unix operating system; creator of C programming language; co author of books on C.
     
  111. Marc J. Rochkind -- creator of Source Code Control System; author of books on Unix programming.
     
  112. James E. Rumbaugh (born 1947) -- creator of Object Modeling Technique (OMT); co creator and co developer of UML.
     
  113. Stephen "Steve" Russell (born 1937) -- first implementor of Lisp.
     
  114. Walter Jeremiah "Jerry" Sanders III (born 1936) -- lead founder of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).
     
  115. Lawrence Mark "Larry" Sanger (born 1968) -- first chief editor of Wikipedia.
     
  116. Steven J. Sasson (born 1950) -- inventor of the digital camera.
     
  117. Robert William "Bob" Schiefler (born 1954) -- co creator of the X Window System.
     
  118. Robert Sedgewick (born 1946) -- author of books on algorithms.
     
  119. William Bradford Shockley Jr. (1910-1989) -- co inventor of the transistor.
     
  120. Abraham A. "Avi" Silberschatz -- co author of books on operating systems and on databases.
     
  121. Irfan Skiljan -- creator of IrfanView.
     
  122. William Stallings -- author of books on data communications, on operating systems and on computer architecture.
     
  123. Richard Matthew Stallman (born 1953) -- founder of Free Software Foundation; advocate of open source software; creator of Emacs, GNU compiler collection and GDB.
     
  124. Thomas A. Standish -- author of book on data structures and algorithms.
     
  125. Gary Keith Starkweather (born 1938) -- inventor of the laser printer.
     
  126. William Richard "Rich" Stevens (1951-1999) -- author of books on TCP/IP protocol family, on Unix programming and on Unix network programming.
     
  127. Bjarne Stroustrup (born 1950) -- creator of C++; author of books on C++.
     
  128. Almon Brown Strowger (1839-1902) -- inventor of first practical automatic telephone exchange.
     
  129. Matthew J. Szulik -- former chairman of Red Hat Inc.
     
  130. Andrew Stuart "Andy" Tanenbaum (born 1944) -- author of books on operating systems and on data communications; creator of MINIX.
     
  131. Kenneth "Ken" Thompson (born 1943) -- co creator of Unix operating system; co designer of Go programming language.
     
  132. Walter F. Tichy -- creator of RCS.
     
  133. Raymond Samuel "Ray" Tomlinson -- inventor of electronic mail.
     
  134. Linus Benedict Torvalds (born 1969) -- creator and lead architect of Linux; creator of Git.
     
  135. Andrew "Tridge" Tridgell (born 1967) -- creator of Samba.
     
  136. Erik Troan -- co creator of Red Hat Package Manager (RPM); former Chief Developer at Red Hat Software.
     
  137. Alan Mathison Turing (1912-1954) -- pioneering computer scientist; developed formalizations of algorithms and computation; devised the Turing machine.
     
  138. Jeffrey David "Jeff" Ullman (born 1942) -- co author of books on compilers, on algorithms and on database systems.
     
  139. Andries "Andy" Van Dam (born 1938) -- co author of books on computer graphics.
     
  140. Guido Van Rossum (born 1956) -- principal creator of Python.
     
  141. John von Neumann (1903-1957) -- creator of von Neumann computer architecture.
     
  142. Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales (born 1966) -- founder of Wikipedia.
     
  143. Larry Wall (born 1954) -- creator of Perl.
     
  144. Thomas John Watson (1874-1956) -- chairman and CEO of IBM 1914-1956.
     
  145. Peter Jay Weinberger (born 1942) -- co creator of awk language.
     
  146. Niklaus Emil Wirth (born 1934) -- creator of Pascal, Modula, Modula-2 and Oberon programming languages.
     
  147. Stephen Gary "Steve" Wozniak (born 1950) -- co founder of Apple Computer.
     
  148. Tatu Ylonen -- inventor of Secure Shell (SSH); founder of SSH Communications Security.
     
  149. Robert "Bob" Young -- founder of Red Hat Software (later Red Hat Inc.); co founder of Linux Journal.
     
  150. Philip R. "Phil" Zimmermann (born 1954) -- creator of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP).
     
  151. Mark Elliott Zuckerberg (born 1984) -- co founder of Facebook.