- Vint Cerf
Vinton Gray Cerf (born June 23, 1943) (last name pronounced just like the English word "surf") is an American computer scientist who is commonly referred to as one of the "founding fathers of the Internet" for his key technical and managerial role, together with Bob Kahn, in the creation of the Internet and the TCP/IP protocols which it uses. He was also a co-founder (in 1992) of the Internet Society (ISOC), …
- Tim Berners-Lee
Sir Tim Berners-Lee Founder of the World Wide Web
- Marc Andreessen
Marc Andreessen (born July 9, 1971, in New Lisbon, Wisconsin) is the chair of Opsware, a software company, and cofounder of Ning, a consumer Internet company. He is best known as a cofounder of Netscape Communications Corporation and co-author of Mosaic, the first widely-used web browser. In 2005, it was revealed that he is one of the people behind Ning, which recently launched a free "playground" for social software.
- Jon Postel
Jonathan Bruce Postel made many significant contributions to the development of the Internet, particularly in the area of standards. He is principally known for being the Editor of the Request for Comment (RFC) document series, and for serving as the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority until his death. The Internet Society's Postel Award is named in his honor, as is the Postel Center at Information Sciences Institute.
- Bob Kahn
Robert E. Kahn, (born December 23 1938) invented the TCP protocol, and along with Vinton G. Cerf created the IP protocol, the technologies used to transmit information on the Internet. After receiving a B.E.E. from the City College of New York in 1960, Dr. Kahn earned M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University in 1962 and 1964 respectively. In 1972 he moved to DARPA (back then known as just ARPA), and in October of that year, …
- Steve Crocker
Steve Crocker (born October 15, 1944 in Pasadena, California) is the inventor of the Request for Comments series, authoring the very first RFC and many more. He was a graduate student at University of California, Los Angeles. Steve Crocker has worked in the Internet community since its inception. As a UCLA graduate student in the 1960's, Steve Crocker helped create the Arpanet protocols which were the foundation for today's Internet.
- Lawrence Roberts
Lawrence G. Roberts has been described as one of the four persons most closely associated with the birth of the Internet, the other three being Leonard Kleinrock, Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf. He was chairman and CTO of Caspian Networks, but left in early 2004. Caspian ceased operation in late 2006. Roberts is now chairman and president of Anagran Inc., which he founded.
- Paul Mockapetris
Dr. Paul V. Mockapetris is the inventor of the Domain Name System. In 1983, he proposed a Domain Name System (DNS) architecture in RFCs 882 and 883 while at the Information Sciences Institute (ISI) of the University of Southern California. He had recognised the problem in the early Internet (then ARPAnet) of holding name to address translations in a single table on a single host, …
- Philip Emeagwali
Philip Emeagwali is a Nigerian-born computer scientist/geologist who was one of two winners of the 1989 Gordon Bell Prize, a prize from the IEEE, for his use of the Connection Machine supercomputer – a machine featuring over 65,000 parallel processors – to help analyze petroleum fields.
- Vannevar Bush
Vannevar Bush (March 11, 1890 - June 30, 1974) was an American engineer and science administrator, known for his work on analog computing, his political role in the development of the atomic bomb, and the idea of the memex-seen as a pioneering concept for the World Wide Web. A leading figure in the development of the military-industrial complex and the military funding of science in the United States, …
- Robert Cailliau
Robert Cailliau (b. 26 January 1947) is one of the co-developers of the World Wide Web.
- Carl Malamud
Carl Malamud (Born: 1959) is a leading force in getting government data online and in creating public works for the Internet. He was the founder of the Internet Multicasting Service, the nonprofit group known for creating the first Internet radio station, for putting the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's EDGAR database on-line, and for creating the Internet 1996 World Exposition.
- Paul Vixie
Paul Vixie is the author of several RFCs and well known UNIX system programs, among them SENDS, proxynet, rtty and Vixie cron. While he was employed by DEC, in 1988 he started working on the popular internet domain name server BIND, of which he was the primary author and architect, until release 8. After he left DEC, in 1994 he founded Internet Software Consortium (ISC) together with Rick Adams and Carl Malamud to support BIND and other software for the Internet.
- Kevin Rose
Robert Kevin Rose (born February 21, 1977 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; better known as Kevin Rose) is best known for founding the social-bookmarking site Digg and as former co-host of the TechTV show "The Screen Savers" (later "Attack of the Show!" on G4) until his departure from the network in May 2005. He attended UNLV for computer science, but dropped out to pursue the 90's tech boom.
- Rick Adams
Rick Adams was an Internet pioneer and the founder of UUNET, which, in the mid and late 1990s, was the world's largest Internet Service Provider (ISP). Rick Adams was responsible for the first widely available Serial Line IP (SLIP) implementation and founding UUNET, thereby making the Internet widely accessible. In 1982 Rick ran the first international UUCP email link at the machine "seismo" (owned by the Center for Seismic Studies in Northern Virginia), …
- J. C. R. Licklider
Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider (March 11, 1915 - June 26, 1990), known simply as J.C.R. or "Lick" was an American computer scientist, considered one of the most important figures in computer science and general computing history. After early work in psychoacoustics, he became interested in information technology early in his career. Much like Vannevar Bush, J.C.R. Licklider's contribution to the development of the Internet consists of ideas, not inventions.
- Alan Kotok
Alan Kotok was an American computer scientist. He was known for his contributions to the Internet and World Wide Web through his work at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), to computer engineering through his work at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), and to gaming for his work on computer game and computer chess programs built at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Kotok recorded a video oral history at the Computer History Museum in 2004.
- Glenn Davis
Glenn Davis was one of the first web designers. He is best known for his site, Project Cool, which included a daily Project Cool Sighting (formerly known as: Cool Site of the Day) which was a single daily link showing some of the best web design of the time. Glenn has been recognized for defining the technique of liquid web design and for co-founding The Web Standards Project alongside of such visionaries as Tim Bray, Jeffrey Zeldman, George Olsen, and Jeff Veen.
- Donald Davies
Donald Watts Davies CBE FRS (June 7, 1924 - May 28, 2000) was a British computer scientist who was a co-inventor of packet switching (and originator of the term), along with Paul Baran in the US. Davies was born in Treorchy in the Rhondda Valley, Wales. He received BSc degrees in physics (1943) and mathematics (1947) at Imperial College London. In 1955, he married Diane Burton. He worked at the National Physical Laboratory at Teddington just outside London.
- Bob Braden
Robert Braden is an American computer scientist who played a role in the development of the Internet. His research interests include end-to-end network protocols, especially in the transport and internetwork layers.
- Veni Markovski
Veni Markovski is a Bulgarian Internet pioneer. He is a graduate of the Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” with Masters of Science degree in Law (1993) Veni Markovski started working on the Internet in September 1990, by becoming one of the first system operators of a Bulletin Board System in Sofia, Bulgaria. By 1993 he has founded and for 9 years was the CEO of the second in history of Bulgaria Internet Service Provider - BOL.BG.
- David D. Clark
David Dana Clark (b. April 7, 1944) is an American computer scientist. He graduated from Swarthmore College in 1966. In 1968, he received his Master's and Engineer's degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he worked on the I/O architecture of Multics under Jerry Saltzer. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from MIT in 1973. From 1981 to 1989, he acted as chief protocol architect in the development of the Internet, …
- David P. Reed
David P. Reed is an American computer scientist, educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, known for a number of significant contributions to computer networking. He was heavily involved in the early development of TCP/IP, and was the designer of the User Datagram Protocol (UDP). He was also one of the authors of the original paper about the end-to-end principle, "End-to-end arguments in system design", published in 1984.
- Vladimir Odoevsky
Prince Vladimir Fyodorovich Odoevsky was a prominent Russian philosopher, writer, music critic, philanthropist and pedagogue. He became known as "Russian Hoffmann" on account of his keen interest in fantasmagoric tales and musical criticism.
- George Sadowsky
George Sadowsky (born September 30, 1936 in Russia) is an American computer scientist who has worked in a number of entities, related to promotion of the Internet worldwide. He is well-known all over the world through his decades of work with developing countries. In many of these countries, he was the one to actually bring the Internet, or make it affordable, or help change the legislation, to make sure it minimized government control and regulation.
- Justin Hall
Justin Hall (born December 16, 1974 in Chicago, Illinois), is an American freelance journalist who is best known as a pioneer blogger (internet-based diarist), and for writing reviews from game conferences such as E3 and the Tokyo Game Show. He graduated from Chicago's Francis W. Parker High School in 1993, and in 1994, while a student at Swarthmore College, started his web-based diary "Justin's Links from the Underground", …
- Michel Bauwens
Michel Bauwens (born 21 March 1958) is a Belgian integral philosopher and Peer-to-Peer theorist. He has worked as an internet consultant, information analyst for the United States Information Agency, information manager for British Petroleum (where he created one of the first virtual information centers), and is former editor-in-chief of the first European digital convergence magazine, the Dutch language "Wave".
- Simon Hackett
Simon Hackett Simon Hackett is the founder and CEO of national broadband ISP Internode and broadband infrastructure builder Agile . Simon graduated from, and then worked at, the University of Adelaide in the 80's. He was one of the folk who helped to build version 1 of AARNet while at the University. He contributed to the development of IETF standards in the areas of audio and video transport, and built one of the world's first SNMP controlled Internet toasters.
- Annalee Newitz
Annalee Newitz (born 1969) is an American journalist who covers the cultural impact of science and technology, such as topics on open source software and hacker subcultures. She has written for many periodicals from "Popular Science" to "Wired", and since 1999 has had a syndicated weekly column called "Techsploitation". From 2004-2005 she was a policy analyst for the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
- Arthur Goldstuck
Arthur Goldstuck (born 1959) is a South African journalist, media analyst and commentator on Information and Communications Technology (ICT), Internet and mobile communications and technologies. He grew up in Trompsburg, Free State, South Africa and resides in Johannesburg, South Africa. Goldstuck led early research into the size of the Internet user population and the extent of Web commerce in South Africa, which established trend lines for Internet growth in the country.
- Roy Fielding
Roy T. Fielding (born 1965) is one of the principal authors of the HTTP specification and a frequently-cited authority on computer network architecture. Fielding was born in Laguna Beach, California, U.S.A., and received a doctorate from the University of California, Irvine in 2000. "Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures", Fielding's doctoral dissertation, …
- Ed Krol
Ed Krol is an important figure in Internet history. He was the network manager at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and the former assistant director of Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services (CITES) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is also the author of The "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet" and "The" "Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog".
- Bruce Shoop
Bruce Shoop is a minister, graphic artist, internet pioneer, entrepreneur, and campaigner against the US drug policy. In 2006, he founded the Green Earth Ministries, a chapter of the THC Ministry and religion that considers cannabis to be a sacrament. William Bruce Shoop was born on 23 May, 1967 in Miami, Florida. Raised and schooled in metropolitan Miami in the 1970s and 1980s, he graduated from Miami Norland high school in 1985, …
- Tim Howes
Tim Howes is the co-inventor of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), the Internet standard for accessing directory servers. The main purpose was to handle situations that the X.500 protocol suite could not address. X.500 directories list network resources to make finding them and using them easier for network administrators and users. Unfortunately, accessing X.500 records has required a full-blown X.500 server; there was no such thing as an X.500 client.
- Brendan Kehoe
Brendan Patrick Kehoe (born December 3, 1970 in Dublin, Ireland) is a software developer and author. He has written two books as well as technology articles in the specialist press (e.g., in "Boardwatch Magazine") on the topic of the Internet. His first book, "Zen and the Art of the Internet: A Beginner's Guide" was the first mass-published user's guide to the Internet. On December 31, 1993, he and a friend, Sven Heinicke, …
- Sepandar Kamvar
Sepandar David Kamvar (born August 6, 1977), also known as Sep Kamvar, is a Persian American computer scientist, artist, and entrepreneur based in San Francisco, CA. He is the technical lead of personalization at Google and a professor of computational mathematics at Stanford University
- Mark Jacobs
Mark Jacobs is currently the GM/VP of EA Mythic. He was the co-founder (along with Rob Denton) and President and CEO of Mythic Entertainment, Inc.. He is one of the pioneers in the massively multiplayer online role-playing game industry, having created two early MUDs, "Aradath" and Dragon's Gate serving as both the designer and programmer in addition to his duties as President/CEO.
- Steve Deering
Dr. Steve Deering is a Technical Leader at Cisco Systems, where he is working on the development and standardization of architectural enhancements to the Internet Protocol. Prior to joining Cisco in 1996, he spent six years at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center, engaged in research on advanced internet technologies, including multicast routing, mobile internetworking, scalable addressing, and support for multimedia applications over the Internet.
- Keith Moore
Keith Moore (born 12 October 1960) is the author and co-author of several IETF RFCs related to the MIME and SMTP protocols for electronic mail, among others: *RFC 1870, defining a mechanism to allow SMTP clients and servers to avoid transferring messages so large that they will be rejected; *RFC 2017, defining a (rarely implemented) means to allow MIME messages to contain attachments whose actual contents are referenced by a URL; *RFC 2047 amended by RFC 2231, …
- David L. Mills
David L. Mills (born June 3, 1938) was the first chairman of the Internet Engineering Task Force. He invented the Network Time Protocol, the fuzzball router, the Exterior Gateway Protocol, and had the first FTP implementation. He has also authored numerous requests for comment. In 1999 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. Currently, Mills is a professor at the University of Delaware. Mills is an amateur radio operator, callsign W3HCF.