Dennis Ritchie

Dennis Ritchie

male, 68 years old
Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie (born September 9, 1941) is an American computer scientist notable for his influence on ALTRAN, B, BCPL, C, Multics, and...
Brian Kernighan

Brian Kernighan

male, 67 years old
Brian Wilson Kernighan, (born 1942 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a computer scientist who worked at Bell Labs alongside Unix creators Ken...

P. J. Plauger

male
P. J. Plauger is an author and entrepreneur. He has written and co-written articles and books about programming style, software tools, and the C...
Martin Richards

Martin Richards

male
Martin Richards is a British computer scientist, best known for his development of the BCPL programming language, which is both the earliest major...

Steve Maguire

male
Steve Maguire is a renowned software engineer and author of software engineering topics. He is the author of two books on software development,...

Dj Delorie

male
DJ Delorie is a US-American software developer. He initiated and maintains the DJGPP project, a very successful, free port of the GNU C/C++...
Christopher Strachey

Christopher Strachey

male, deceased (1975)
Christopher Strachey (1916-1975) was a British computer scientist. He was one of the founders of denotational semantics, and a pioneer in...
David Filo

David Filo

male, 43 years old
David Filo (born 1966 in Wisconsin) is the co-founder of Yahoo! with Jerry Yang. David Filo, at age 6, moved to Moss Bluff, Louisiana, a suburb of...
Why The Lucky Stiff

Why The Lucky Stiff

male
why the lucky stiff (often known simply as "why" or "_why") is the persona of a prolific writer, cartoonist, musician, artist, and computer...
Daniel Reed

Daniel Reed

male
Daniel Reed is the main developer and programmer of the naim AOL Instant Messenger client using the C programming language. He is also an IRC...