Bill Gates

Bill Gates

male, 54 years old (Seattle, Washington, United States)
Microsoft, Microsoft founder, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, college dropout, geek, Windows…OperatingSystems
William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and the chairman of Microsoft, the software company he...

William Stallings

male
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Data and Computer Communications, Cryptography and Network Security, Wireless Communications and Networking, Computer Organization and Architecture, OperatingSystems
William Stallings is an American computer scientist, best known for his textbooks on computer science topics such as operating systems, computer...
Neal Stephenson

Neal Stephenson

male, 50 years old
novelist, snow crash, author, Baroque Cycle, science fiction writer, Mac user…OperatingSystems
Neal Town Stephenson (born October 31, 1959) is an American writer, known primarily for his science fiction works in the postcyberpunk genre with a...
Roger Needham

Roger Needham

male, deceased (2003)
British, cancer death, Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, Research laboratory, computer scientist, Microsoft employee…OperatingSystems
Roger Michael Needham CBE FREng FRS (9 February, 1935 - 1 March, 2003) was a British computer scientist. Needham began his undergraduate studies at...
Carl Sassenrath

Carl Sassenrath

male, 52 years old
computer pioneer, Operating system designer, computer languages, OperatingSystems, Personal Computers, Multitasking
Carl Sassenrath (born 1957 in California) is an architect of operating systems and computer languages. He brought multitasking to personal...
Jon Hall

Jon Hall

male
drexel university, OperatingSystems, DEC Alpha, rensselaer polytechnic institute, bachelor of science, master of science…operating system, Systems Administrator
Jon "maddog" Hall is the Executive Director of Linux International, a non-profit organization of computer vendors who wish to support and promote...
Per Brinch Hansen

Per Brinch Hansen

male, 71 years old
Syracuse University, professor, new york state, computer pioneer, computer scientist, Fellow of the IEEE…operating system, OperatingSystems, Operating System Principles
Per Brinch Hansen is a Danish-American computer scientist known for concurrent programming theory. He was born in Frederiksberg, a suburb of...
Raphael Finkel

Raphael Finkel

male, 58 years old
Advanced Programming Language Design, J.L. Bentley, programming paradigm, An Operating Systems Vade Mecum, quadtree, Stanford University alumni…operating system, Parallel and Distributed Systems, OperatingSystems
Raphael Finkel (born 1951) is an American computer scientist and a professor at the University of Kentucky. He compiled the first version of the...
Mike Muuss

Mike Muuss

male, deceased (2000)
American road accident victim, I-95, Crackers, Microsoft Windows, UNIX, bind…OperatingSystems, Computer Systems Research Group
Michael John Muuss (October 16, 1958 - November 20, 2000) was the author of the freeware network tool Ping. A graduate of Johns Hopkins University,...
John Mashey

John Mashey

male
venture capitalist, Pennsylvania State University, MIPS Computer Systems, Computer History Museum, Silicon Valley, OperatingSystems…Siebel Systems
JOHN MASHEY , a consultant for venture capitalists and technology companies, sits on various technology advisory boards and is a trustee of the...