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If these are the Top 100 Software People in the World, who are the Top Twenty?
Jan. 6, 2005 12:00 AM
Gene Amdahl: Implementer in the 60s of a milestone in computer technology: the concept of compatibility between systems Marc Andreessen: Pioneer of Mosaic, the first browser to navigate the WWW; co-founder of Netscape John Vincent Atanasoff: Inventor of an electronic computer in the late 1930s not for fun or glory, but because he had problems for it to solve Charles Babbage: Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge in 1828; inventor of the 'calculating machine' John Backus: Inventor (with IBM) of FORTRAN (FORmula TRANslator) in 1956 Ralph Baer: "The man who invented video games" (Pong) Kent Beck: Creator of JUnit and pioneer of eXtreme Programming (XP) Bob Bemer: One of the developers of COBOL and the ASCII naming standard for IBM (1960s) Tim Berners-Lee: "Father of the World Wide Web" and expectant father of the Semantic Web D J Bernstein: Author of qmail Joshua Bloch: Formerly at Sun, where he helped architect Java's core platform; now at Google Grady Booch: One of the original developers of the Unified Modeling Language Adam Bosworth: Famous for Quattro Pro, Microsoft Access, and IE4; then BEA, now Google Don Box: Coauthor of SOAP Stewart Brand: Cofounder in 1984 of the WELL bulletin board Tim Bray: One of the prime movers of XML, now with Sun Dan Bricklin: Cocreator of VisiCalc, the first PC spreadsheet Larry Brilliant: Cofounder in 1984 of the WELL bulletin board Sergey Brin: Son-of-college-math-professor turned cofounder of Google, Inc. Fred Brooks: Co-creator of OS/390, helping change the way we think about software development Luca Cardelli: Implementer of the first compiler for ML (the most popular typed functional language) and one of the earliest direct-manipulation user-interface editors Vincent Cerf: "The Father of the Internet," co-inventor with Robert Kahn of the first Internetworking Protocol, TCP Brad Cox: Father of Objective-C Alonzo Church: Co-creator with Alan Turing of the "Church-Turing Thesis" Alistair Cockburn: Helped craft the Agile Development Manifesto Edgar (Ted) Codd: "Father of Relational Databases," inventor of SQL and creator of RDBMS systems Larry Constantine: Inventor of data flow diagrams; presented first paper on concepts of structured design in 1968 Dave Cutler: The brains behind VMS; hired away by Microsoft for Windows NT Ole-Johan Dahl: Developer (with Kristen Nygaard) of SIMULA, the first object-oriented programming language. Miguel de Icaza: Now with Novell, cofounder of Ximian, GNOME, Mono Tom DeMarco: A principal of the computer systems think tank, Atlantic Systems Guild Theo de Raadt: Founder of the OpenBSD and OpenSSH projects Edsger W. Dijkstra: One of the moving forces behind the acceptance of computer programming as a scientific discipline; developer of the first compilers Brendan Eich: Inventor of JavaScript; Chief Architect of the Mozilla Project Robert Elz: University of Melbourne Department of Computer Science Doug Englebart: Father of the Mouse; devised the Open Hyperdocument System; interactive computing's founding pioneer Don Ferguson: Inventor of the J2EE application server at IBM Roy T. Fielding: Primary architect of HTTP 1.1 and a founder of the Apache Web server Richard P. Feynman: Legendary physicist and teacher, teacher of Caltech course 1983-86 called Potentialities and Limitations of Computing Machines Martin Fowler: Famous for work on refactoring, XP, and UML Bob Frankston: Cocreator of VisiCalc, the first PC spreadsheet Jon Gay: The "Father of Flash" Bill Gates: Chief Software Architect (and Lord High Chief Everything Else) of "the world's #1 company" (Hoovers.com)
Adele Goldberg: Developer of SmallTalk along with Alan Kay; wrote much of the documentation James Gosling: "Father of Java" (though not its sole parent) Anders Hejlsberg: Genius behind the Turbo Pascal compiler, subsequently "Father of C#" Andy Hertzfield: Eazel developer and Macintosh forefather Daniel W. Hillis: VP of R&D at the Walt Disney Company; cofounder, Thinking Machines Grace Murray Hopper: developer of the first compiled high level programming language, COBOL Jordan Hubbard: One of the creators of FreeBSD; currently a manager of Apple's Darwin project Jean D Ichbiah: Principal designer, Ada language (1977) Ken Iverson: Inventor of APL, later J Bill Joy: Cofounder and former chief scientist of Sun; main author of Berkeley Unix William Kahan: "The Old Man of Floating-Point;" primary architect behind the IEEE 754 standard for loating-point computation Robert Kahn: Co-inventor with Vincent Cerf of the first Internetworking Protocol, TCP Mitch Kapor: Designer of Lotus 1-2-3, founder of Lotus Development Corporation Mike Karels: System architect for 4.3BSD Alan Kay: Inventor of SmallTalk Brian Kernighan: One of the creators of the AWK and AMPL languages; coauthor of the 'bible' on C programming Mitchell Kertzman: Former programmer, founder, and CEO of Powersoft (later Sybase) Gary Kildall: Author of the archetpical OS known as CP/M (control Program for Microcomputers) Klaus Knopper: Prime mover of Knoppix, a Linux distro that runs directly from a CD Donald Knuth: "Father of Computer Science" - author of The Art of Computer Programming; inventor of TeX, allowing typesetting of text and mathematical formulas on a PC Butler Lampson: Architect of Cedar/Mesa; Implementer of Xerox Alto Robert C. Martin: Agile software development proponent; CEO, president, and founder of Object Mentor Yukihiro Matsumoto ("Matz"): Creator of Ruby John McCarthy: Creator, with his graduate students, of Lisp Craig McClanahan: Of Tomcat, Struts, and JSF fame Doug McIlroy: Head of department at Bell Labs where UNIX started Bob Metcalfe: Creator of Ethernet Chuck Moore: Inventor of Forth, a high-level programming language Andrew Morton: Linus's No. 2 in the kernel group Nathan Myhrvold: Theoretical and mathematical physicist, former CTO at Microsoft Ted Nelson: Creator of the Xanadu project - universal, democratic hypertext library; precursor to the WWW Kristen Nygaard: Developer (with Ole-Johan Dahl) of SIMULA, the first object-oriented programming language. Tim O'Reilly: Publisher, open source advocate; believer that great technology needs great books Peter Pag: Pioneer of 4GLS (1979); developed Software AG's Natural Jean Paoli: One of the co-creators of the XML 1.0 standard with the W3C; now with Microsoft Bob Pasker: founder of WebLogic, author of the first Java Application Server John Patrick: Former VP of Internet technology at IBM, now "e-tired" Benjamin Pierce: Harvard University faculty member for 49 years; recognized in his time as one of America's leading mathematicians Rob Pike: An early developer of Unix and windowing system (GUI) technology P J Plauger: Chair of the ANSI C committee Jon Postel: "The 'North Star' Who Defined the Internet" John Postley: Developed Mark IV (1967), the first million dollar software product, for Informatics Martin Richards: Designer of the BCPL Cintcode System Dennis Ritchie: Creator of C and coinventor of Unix Martin Roesch: Author of the open-source program Snort in 1998 Gurusamy Sarathy: Heavily involved in maintaining the mainstream releases of Perl for the past 7 years Carl Sassenrath: Author of REBOL, a scripting language Richard Stallman: Free software movement's leading figure; founder of the GNU Project Guy L. Steele: Author of athoritative books and papers on Lisp W. Richard Stevens: "Guru of the Unix Gurus"; author and consultant Bjarne Stroustrup: The designer and original implementor of C++ Ivan Sutherland: Considered by many to be the creator of Computer Graphics Andy Tanenbaum: Professor of computer science, author of Minix Avadis (Avie) Tevanian: Chief Software Technology Officer, Apple Ken Thompson: Coinventor of Unix Linus Torvalds: "Benevolent dictator" of the Linux kernel Guy (Bud) Tribble: One of the industry's top experts in software design and object-oriented programming Alan Turing: Mathematician; author of the 1950 paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" Guido van Rossum: Author of the Python programming language Patrick Volkerding: Creator of Slackware Linux John von Neumann: Pioneer of logical design; first computer theorist to tackle the problem of obtaining reliable answers from a machine with unreliable components Larry Wall: Author of Perl John Warnock: Inventor of PostScript; CEO of Adobe Systems Michael "Monty" Widenius: Creator of MySQL Ann Winblad: Former programmer, cofounder of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners Nicklaus Wirth: Inventor of Algol W, Pascal, Modula, Modula-2, and Oberon Stephen Wolfram: Scientist, creator of Mathematica Jamie Zawinski: Instrumental in the creation of Lucid Emacs (now XEmacs)
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