| |  | Steven "Steve" C. McConnell is a well-known author of many software engineering textbooks including Code Complete, "Rapid Development", and... |  | Linus Benedict Torvalds ; born December 28, 1969 in Helsinki, Finland, is a Finnish software engineer best known for initiating the development of... |  | Tom DeMarco is a well-known author, teacher, and speaker on software engineering topics. He lives in Camden, Maine, and is presently both a... |  | Ian F. Sommerville, (1951 -) is a British academic. He is currently (2006) a full professor of software engineering at the University of St Andrews... |  | David Harel (born 1950) is a professor of computer science at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. Born in London, England, he was Dean of... |  | Joel Spolsky (born 1965) is a software engineer and writer. He is the author of "Joel on Software", a blog on software development targeted mainly... |  | Niklaus E. Wirth (b. February 15, 1934) is a Swiss computer scientist, best known for designing several programming languages, including Pascal,... |  | Walter F. Tichy is professor of computer science at the University of Karlsruhe in Germany where he teaches classes in software engineering. To the... |  | Peri Tarr received her BS in Zoology from the University of Massachusetts in 1986, and her MS and PhD in Computer Science from the University of... |  | Diomidis D. Spinellis is a Greek computer science academic and author of the book Code Reading. He is also a committer in the FreeBSD project, and... | |
