John McCarthy

John McCarthy

male, 82 years old
John McCarthy (born September 4, 1927, in Boston, Massachusetts, sometimes known affectionately as Uncle John McCarthy), is a prominent computer...
Paul Graham

Paul Graham

male, 45 years old
Paul Graham (b. Weymouth, England, 1964) is a Lisp programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist. He is the author of "On Lisp" (1993), "ANSI Common...
Richard Stallman

Richard Stallman

male, 56 years old
Richard Stallman is the founder of the GNU project and the Free Software Foundation. Builder AU recently caught up with RMS about his achievements,...
Gerald Jay Sussman

Gerald Jay Sussman

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Gerald Jay Sussman is the Panasonic Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He received his S.B....

Richard P. Gabriel

male, 60 years old
Richard P. Gabriel is a noted expert on the Lisp programming language (and especially Common Lisp) in computing. He is primarily known for his 1990...

Richard Greenblatt

male
Richard D. Greenblatt is an American programmer. Along with Bill Gosper, he may be considered to have founded the hacker community, and holds a...
Hal Abelson

Hal Abelson

male
Harold (Hal) Abelson is Class of 1922 Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and a Fellow of the IEEE. He holds an A.B....
Bill Gosper

Bill Gosper

male
Ralph William Gosper, Jr., (b. 1943) known as Bill Gosper, is an American mathematician and programmer from Pennsauken, New Jersey. Along with...

David Moon

male
David A. Moon is a programmer and computer scientist, known for his work on the Lisp programming language and related topics.