coders.txt

Name    Description
Peter Norvig    Director of Research at Google and author of the standard text on AI.
Alan Kay    Inventor of Smalltalk. Coined the term "object-oriented programming".
Guy Steele  Co-inventor of Scheme and part of the Common Lisp Gang of Five. Currently working on Fortress.
Donald Knuth    Author of The Art of Computer Programming and TeX
Gerald Jay Sussman  Co-creator of Scheme and co-author of The Structure And Interpretation of Computer Programs.
John McCarthy   Invented Lisp
John Carmack    Founder of id Software; lead programmer of Doom, Quake, and others.
Dennis Ritchie  Invented C and contributed to development of UNIX
Joe Armstrong   Inventor of Erlang
Ken Thompson    Inventor of UNIX
Brian Kernighan The K in AWK and K&R. Author of the original "hello, world" program.
Guido van Rossum    Invented Python
Linus Torvalds  Wrote and maintains Linux kernel. Wrote GIT version control system.
Steve Wozniak   Wrote most of the original Apple II software.
Bill Joy    Wrote BSD TCP/IP stack, vi
Simon Peyton Jones  Co-inventor of Haskell and lead designer of Glasgow Haskell Compiler.
Alan Cox    One of Linus Torvalds's main lieutenants. Wrote Linux TCP/IP code.
Larry Wall  Invented Perl
Jamie Zawinski  Author of XEmacs and early Netscape/Mozilla hacker.
Ward Cunningham Wrote the first Wiki and FIT.
Edi Weitz   Lisp library hacker extraordinaire. Co-organizer of the European Common Lisp Meetings 2005 and 2006
Chuck Moore Invented Forth
Robert Morris   Wrote the Internet Worm and co-founded Viaweb with Paul Graham
Theo de Raadt   Founder of OpenBSD project. Original author of OpenSSH.
Tim Sweeney Founder of Epic Games. Wrote the Unreal Engine.
Brendan Eich    Invented Javascript
Paul Graham Lisp hacker and author.
Fabrice Bellard Wrote QEMU, TinyCC, FFMPEG; Winner of 2001 IOCCC
Yukihiro Matsumoto  Invented Ruby
Dan Bernstein   Wrote djbns and qmail
Andrew Tridgell Wrote Samba file server and co-invented rsync algorithm
Andrew Tanenbaum    Created Minix, advocate for micro-kernels.
Andy Gavin  Co-founder of Naughty Dog software. Wrote GOAL which was used to develop Jak and Daxter.
Brad Fitzpatrick    Wrote LiveJournal, OpenID, memcached, Perlbal
Bram Cohen  Wrote BitTorrent
Michael Abrash  Optimization expert
Hal Abelson Abelson of Abelson and Sussman. MIT professor.
Miguel de Icaza Wrote GNOME and Mono
Richard Stallman    Wrote Emacs, gcc, and started the Free Software movement.
Rob Pike    Author of first bitmap windowing system for Unix. Worked on Plan 9. Now works at Google.
Douglas Engelbart   Invented computer mouse
Audrey Tang Leader of Pugs project to implement Perl 6 in Haskell
Bruce Schneier  Security expert. Creator of Twofish block cipher.
Marvin Minsky   Artifical Intelligence researcher
Stephen Wolfram Invented Mathematica
Erik Naggum Lisp hacker
Philip Greenspun    Author of Greenspun's Tenth Law and sometimes instructor at MIT
Frances Allen   Pioneer in optimizing compilers. First woman to win Turing Award (2006) and first woman IBM fellow.
Paul Buchheit   Creator of GMail
James Gosling   Invented Java, NeWS windowing system.
Bjarne Stroustrup   Invented C++
Anders Hejlsberg    Lead architect of C#, Architect of Delphi at Borland. Wrote what became Turbo Pascal
Justin Frankel  Wrote Winamp, NSIS, and Gnutella
David Heinemeier Hansson    Invented Rails
Bill Gosper One of the original MIT hackers. Worked on Lisp machines, Maclisp, and Macsyma
L. Peter Deutsch    Author of Ghostscript, Implemented Smalltalk-80 at Xerox PARC and Lisp 1.5 on PDP-1
Whitfield Diffie    Discovered principle of public key cryptography
Wil Shipley Wrote Delicious Monster. Founded Omni Group
Andy Hertzfeld  Key Macintosh developer
Raymond Chen    Worked on OS/2, Windows 95, and Direct X
Richard Gabriel Lisper and Poet. Currently a Distinguished Engineer at IBM. Chair of OOPSLA 2007.
Charles Simonyi Invented Hungarian notation. Original author of Microsoft Word. Head of the IP project at Microsoft, now running intentsoft.com
Sergey Brin Founded Google
Gregor Kiczales Wrote Common Lisp MOP. Invented Aspect Oriented programming.
Martin Fowler   Chief Scientist at Thoughtworks. Author of Refactoring and many other books.
Dan Ingalls Smalltalk implementor and designer.
Steve Yegge Blogger and Googler
Matt Dillon FreeBSD hacker, founded DragonFly BSD project
Why the lucky stiff Core Ruby developer and free spirit
Leslie Lamport  Distributed systems researcher and developer of LaTeX
Xavier Leroy    Primary developer of OCaml. Wrote LinuxThreads threading package used in pre 2.6 Linux kernels
Alexander Stepanov  Author of the Standard Template Library for C++
Larry Page  Founded Google
Marc Andreessen Co-wrote Mosaic. Founded Netscape.
Douglas Crockford   JSON founder, JavaScript Architect at Yahoo!
Douglas McIlroy Unix toolsmith; invented Unix pipelines
Zed Shaw    Wrote Mongrel (Rails HTTP server)
Bill Atkinson   Early Mac developer. Designed and implemented Hypercard
David Cutler    Architect of VMS and Windows NT
Danny Hillis    Founder of Thinking Machines
Roy Fielding    One of the principle authors of HTTP specification. Invented REST. Co-founder of Apache project
Olin Shivers    Comp Sci professor interested in Scheme and ML. Wrote scsh
Allison Randal  Architect of Parrot virtual machine
Aaron Swartz    Invented web.py
Vinton Cerf Father of TCP/IP
Trevor Blackwell    Principal at Viaweb. Now founder and CEO of Anybots
Van Jacobson    Redesigned TCP/IP flow control algorithms, saving the net from total collapse. Eponymous inventor of Van Jacobson TCP/IP header compression.
Mark Pilgrim    Wrote Universal Feed Parser. Author of Dive into Python and Dive into Accessibility.
Bruce Momjian   Core PostgreSQL developer
Henry Baker One of the founder of Symbolics; comp sci. researcher
Bill Gates  Wrote BASIC for Altair
Brad Cox    Invented Objective C
Jonathan Rees   Designed T dialect of Scheme and co-wrote Scheme 48
Bertrand Meyer  Invented Eiffel
Ivan Sutherland Invented Sketchpad, precursor to modern GUIs
Niklaus Wirth   Invented Pascal, Modula, Oberon
Alex Martelli   Co-author of Python Cookbook and Author of Python in a Nutshell
Philip Wadler   Professor of Theoretical Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh. Contributed to design of Java, Haskell, and XQuery.
Mark Shuttleworth   Founded Thawte and Ubuntu project. Previously a Debian developer
Tom Lane    Core PostgreSQL developer responsible for optimizer.
Richard Hipp    Wrote sqlite embedded SQL database
Ingo Molnár Linux hacker, author of many Linux perfomance improvements.
Bruce Eckel Founding member of ANSI/ISO C++ committee. Author of Thinking in Java and Thinking in C++.
Kent Pitman Technical Editor of Common Lisp ANSI standard
Richard Greenblatt  Main implementor of Maclisp on PDP-6. Co-founded Lisp Machines, Inc.
Jeff Rubin  According to Richard Gabriel a "code-writing savant".
Adrian Holovaty Lead developer of Django
Jon Bentley Author of Programming Pearls books.
Kent Beck   Creator of XP
Bram Moolenaar  Wrote VIM (Vi IMproved)
Tom Duff    Invented Duff's device and noted graphics programmer
Dave Fox    Lisp hacker, directior of Lispworks Ltd.
Marco Baringer  Common Lisp hacker, author of Uncommon Web
Luke Gorrie Lisp and Erlang hacker. Project lead for SLIME.
Alain Colmerauer    Invented Prolog
John Foderaro   Original author of Franz's Allegro Common Lisp
Don Stewart Haskell hacker
Elizabeth Rather    Colleague of Chuck Moore and second ever Forth programmer
Ka-Ping Yee Python hacker extraordinaire.
Jeff Dean   Google Fellow in Systems Infrastructure Group. Co-inventor of MapReduce.
Tim Peters  Python hacker and author of Spambayes
Rasmus Lerdorf  Invented PHP
Alvy Ray Smith  Graphics pioneer. Worked at LucasFilm, helped found Pixar.
Marshall Kirk McKusick  Designed Berkeley Fast File System.
Steve Russell   One of John McCarthy's grad students. Brought Lisp to life by hand-coding EVAL in assembler. Wrote Spacewar.
Damian Conway   Perl hacker and three time winner of the Larry Wall award. Wrote Lingua::Romana::Perligata and others.
Ola Bini    Core JRuby developer
Poul-Henning Kamp   FreeBSD kernel hacker
Ellen Spertus   Head of Interdisciplinary Computer Science department at Mills College
Wietse Venema   Wrote Postfix. Co-wrote Satan and TCT
Charles Nutter  Principle JRuby developer
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.
Roberto Ierusalimschy   Invented Lua
Edward Feigenbaum   Father of Expert Systems
Urs Hölzle  Researcher behind Sun's HotSpot JVM technology.
P.J. Plauger    Worked on first commercial C compiler
Tom Lord    Scheme and C hacker. Wrote GNU Arch
Erich Gamma One of the Gang of Four
Jarkko Oikarinen    Started IRC
Mitchell Kapor  Founded Lotus
Don Hopkins Invented Pie Menus, working on One Laptop Per Child project.
Joshua Bloch    Author of Java collections framework. Now at Google.
Paul Vixie  Wrote BIND
Michael Feathers    XP guru
Janus Friis Founder of Joost, Skype, Kazaa
John Ousterhout Invented TCL
Graham Nelson   Invented Inform language used to program interatvive fiction
Eric Meijer Architect in SQL server group at Microsoft working on combining functional programming with the CLR and SQL
Udi Manber  VP of Engineering at Google. Co-author of Glimpse, Agrep, and Harvest search packages.
Mark Zuckerberg Founder and CEO of Facebook
Scott McKay Lisp and Dylan designer.
Keith Packard   X Windows hacker, founded X.Org Server project
Paul Allen  Co-founded Microsoft.
Richard Kelsey  Co-wrote Scheme 48 and edited R5RS
Amy Fowler  Core Java Swing developer
Butler Lampson  Systems pioneer. Worked on Xerox's Alto.
Dan Bricklin    Wrote Visicalc
Nick Bradbury   Wrote HomeSite, TopStyle, and FeedDemon
Ralph Johnson   One of the Gang of Four
John Gilmore    Contributor to several GNU projects. Co-author of Bootstrap protocol which became DHCP. Founder of EFF, Cypherpunks mailing list, and Cygnus solutions.
Carla Schroder  Long-time Linux geek.
Zack Rusin  Qt graphics guru
Donald Chamberlin   Principle designer of SQL; ACM Intercollegiate Programming Contest judge, 1998-2005
Rick Olsen  Core Rails developer, wrote Mephisto and Beast
Joe Marshall    Lisp hacker
Gavin King  Original author of Hibernate, JBoss Seam
Richard Karp    Researcher in theory of algorithms
Martin Odersky  Invented Scala
James Duncan Davidson   Started Apache Ant and Apache Tomcat projects. Author of Java Servlet API and Java API for XML processing J2EE specifications.
Brian Behlendorf    Apache organizer
Dan Farmer  Co-wrote Satan and TCT
Ray Ozzie   Main architect of Lotus Notes. Now Chief Software Architect at Microsoft.
Roger Hui   Implementor of of J language
Scott Meyers    Author of Effective C++, More Effective C++, Effective STL
Henry Spencer   Wrote Unix regex library later incorporated into Tcl and Perl. Co-wrote C News news server
Jim Blinn   Graphics Fellow at Microsoft
Steve Dekorte   Invented Io language.
Evan Phoenix    Author of Rubinus compiler/virtual machine for Ruby
Ray Tomlinson   Wrote first networked email system and gave us the @-sign in email addresses.
Larry Osterman  Longtime Microsoftie
Russ Cox    Worked on Plan 9. Represented U.S. at 1995 International Olympiad in Informatics
Peter Van Roy   Contributor to Mozart/Oz programming system. Author of Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming
Paul 'Rusty' Russell    One of Linus Torvald's top deputies. Wrote ipchains and netfilter/iptables packet filtering code
Matt Mackall    Wrote Mecurial version control system.
Chris Wanstrath Notable Rails programmer
Niklas Zennstrom    Founder of Joost, Skype, Kazaa
David Korn  Wrote the Korn shell
Avi Bryant  Co-founder Dabble DB
Barry Boehem    Software metrics guru
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Wrote Gnus and Gmane
Jacob Kaplan-Moss   Django developer. Wrote Tivo apps in Python and now hacking Python on the PSP
John Mashey Early Unix hacker
Keith Bostic    Worked on BSD at Berkeley and one of the original authors of BerkeleyDB
Gavin Schmidt   Programmer on GISS climate modeling software.
Robert Martin   Founder and CEO of Object Mentor. C++ and Agile methods expert.
Doug Lea    Concurrency expert and systems programmer.
Adele Goldberg  Smalltalk designer and documenter.
Dan Geer    Security expert
Austin Meyer    Author of X-Plane and Space Combat flight simulators
Neil Hodgson    Wrote Scintilla and SciTE
Brian Harvey    UC Comp Sci professor. Author of Berkeley Logo
Paul Haeberli   Computer graphics researcher
Rob McCool  Wrote NCSA HTTPd; drafted Common Gateway Interface specification
Radia Perlman   Invented spanning-tree protocol
Stefan Meyer-Kahlen Author of Shredder chess program
Alessandro Rubini   Linux kernel hacker
Wouter van Oortmerssen  Game programmer and language designer
Craig McClanahan    Original author of Apache Struts
Will Crowther   Wrote Adventure and the inner packet processing loop of the original internet IMPs
Marcus Ranum    Security expert and author of Firewall Toolkit and Network Flight Recorder
Eric Allman Wrote sendmail
Andrew Hunt Co-founder of Pragmatic Programmers
Arthur Whitney  Invented A+ and K languages and wrote prototype of J language
Dave Thomas Co-founder of Pragmatic Programmers
Dan Piponi  Graphics programmer and theorist.
Peter Weinberger    The W in AWK
Thomas Enebo    Principle JRuby developer
Richard Helm    One of the Gang of Four
Bob Scheifler   Led the development of X Windows while the X Consortium was at MIT
Charles Hedrick Lisp Unix hacker
Guillaume Laforge   Groovy project lead
Ilya Zakharevich    Major contributor to perl5 including a major reworking of the regex engine.
John Vlissides  One of the Gang of Four
Dominic Giampaolo   Wrote BeOS file system
Salvatore Sanfilippo    Software developer and security expert
Rod Johnson Original author of Spring Framework
Mathias Feist   Co-author of Fritz chess program.
Sam Leffler BSD hacker. Wrote FreeBSD wi-fi drivers
Chris Torek BSDI os hacker
Mike Karels System architect of BSD 4.3 and 4.4 releases.
Jeff Mogul  HP Fellow working on networking performance. Contributed to HTTP 1.1 spec
Rob Barnaby Worked some on early Logo, wrote Word Star. Also did Stringcomp, an early string processing language.
Eric Bina   Co-wrote Mosaic.
Simon Willison  Django developer. Hacker Liason for Yahoo UK
Frans Morsch    Co-author of Fritz chess program.
John Harper Wrote librep and the sawfish window manager
Spencer Janssen Wrote xmonad, a tiling window manager implemened in Haskell
John Socha  Wrote many DOS software packages for Norton Computing
Peter Karp  Responsible for the development of BioCyc
Mark Maybee Worked on ZFS DMU at Sun.
Peter Norton    Wrote the first version of the Norton Utilities
Graeme Rocher   Grails project lead
Dan Sugalski    Original architect of Parrot VM
Erik Benson Cheif Janitorial Officer - Robot Coop
Mark Fletcher   Founder Bloglines, egroups
Graham Spencer  Co-founder Excite & Jot-Spot
Mark Jason Dominus  Perl programmer; author of Higher Order Perl
Sape Mullender  Member of Technical Staff, Lucent Technologies,Bell Labs Innovations, Computing Sciences Research, Murray Hill, New Jersey.
Paul Mackerras  Samba developer
Val Henson  Kernel hacker and file systems specialist.
Greg Linden Founder Findory & worked at Amazon
Dick Wall   Co-host of the Java Posse podcast. Works at Google.
Spencer Kimball Co-wrote GIMP. Googler.
Jeff Bonwick    Chief architect of ZFS
Peter Mattis    Co-wrote GIMP. Googler.
Bernie Cosell   One of the main software guys behind the original ARPANET IMP's and a master debugger.
Shay Bushinsky  Co-author of Junior chess program.
Dennis Crawley  DodgeBall
Rainer Joswig   Contributes to CL-HTTP
Biz Stone   Twitter
Max Levchin Co-founder Pay Pal & Slide
Joel Reymont    Open Poker
Jon Kleinberg   Cornell Comp. Sci. professor.
Joel Spolsky    FogCreekSoftware
Munjal Shah Co-founder Riya
Dierk Koenig.   Groovy, Grails contributor
Peter-Paul Koch Javascript guru. Maintains quirksmode website.
Frank Heart Managed the group that built the ARPANET.
Thomas Knoll    Original creator of Photoshop.
Amir Ban    Co-author of Junior chess program.
Watts Humphrey  CMM guru.
Rusty Bobrow    BBNer doing work in computational linguistics, speech recognition, and artificial intelligence.
Simon Tatham    Author of PuTTY
Eric Swildens   Founder Microline Software, Co-founder Speedera Networks
Evan Williams   Twitter
Dan Weinreb Founder of Symbolics. Now at ITA.
Robert Thau Early Apache developer. Started Bianca Troll
Chrilly Donninger   Author of the Hydra chess program.
Matthew Ahrens  Works on ZFS in kernel group at Sun
Michael C. Schatz   Author of a number of gene sequencing programs.
Richard Fateman Computer algebraist. Worked on MacSysma and Maxima
Alex Russell    Created Dojo Javascript library
Naval Ravikanth Founder vast.com
Sam Stephenson  Created Prototype Javascript library