Niklaus Wirth

Niklaus Wirth

male, 75 years old
Turing Award, Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, Formal methods, Niklaus E. Wirth, software engineering, programming language…Programminglanguagedesigner
Niklaus E. Wirth (b. February 15, 1934) is a Swiss computer scientist, best known for designing several programming languages, including Pascal,...
Bertrand Meyer

Bertrand Meyer

male, 59 years old
Electricité de France, Doctor of Philosophy, Ph.D., Master's Degree, Nancy, France, Formal methods…Programminglanguagedesigner, Eiffel programming language, Eiffel The Language, object-oriented programming, programming language creator
Bertrand Meyer (born 1950 in France) developed the Eiffel programming language, and is an author, academic and consultant in the field of computer...
John McCarthy

John McCarthy

male, 82 years old
Turing Award laureate, Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, Princeton University, National Medal of Science recipient, mathematical logic, Turing Award…Programminglanguagedesigner, Lisp programming language
John McCarthy (born September 4, 1927, in Boston, Massachusetts, sometimes known affectionately as Uncle John McCarthy), is a prominent computer...
John Backus

John Backus

male, deceased (2007) (San Francisco, California, United States)
Turing Award laureate, programming language creator, National Medal of Science recipient, IBM 704, Backus-Naur form, National Medal of Science…Programminglanguagedesigner, programming language, High-level programming language, Fortran programming language, Function-level programming
John Warner Backus was an American computer scientist. He led the team that invented the first widely used high-level programming language...
Larry Wall

Larry Wall

male, 55 years old
Perl, programming language creator, Programming Perl, Perl writer, linguist, computer programmer…Programminglanguagedesigner, programming language
Larry Wall (born September 27, 1954) is a programmer, linguist, and author, most widely known for his creation of the Perl programming language in...
Richard Stallman

Richard Stallman

male, 56 years old
GNU, Free Software Foundation, hacker, rms, GNU Project, free software…League for Programming Freedom, Lisp programming language, Programminglanguagedesigner
Richard Stallman is the founder of the GNU project and the Free Software Foundation. Builder AU recently caught up with RMS about his achievements,...
Guido van Rossum

Guido van Rossum

male (San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States)
python, Google employee, creator of Python, Python programming language, Programmer, dutch…programming language creator, Programminglanguagedesigner, Computer Programming for Everybody, ABC programming language
Guido van Rossum is a Dutch computer programmer who is best known as the author of the Python programming language. In the Python community, Van...
Konrad Zuse

Konrad Zuse

male, deceased (1995)
computer, deutsches museum, z3, civil engineer, algorithmic, algol…computer designer, Programminglanguagedesigner, programming language, High-level programming language
Konrad Zuse was a German engineer and computer pioneer. His greatest achievement was the completion of the first functional program-controlled...
Bjarne Stroustrup

Bjarne Stroustrup

male, 58 years old (College Station, Texas, United States)
The C++ Programming Language, computer science, c++ programming language, c++, professor, Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery…Programminglanguagedesigner, programming language
Bjarne Stroustrup (born December 30, 1950 in Aarhus, Denmark) is a computer scientist and the College of Engineering Chair Professor of Computer...