- Linus Torvalds
Linus Benedict Torvalds ; born December 28, 1969 in Helsinki, Finland, is a Finnish software engineer best known for initiating the development of the Linux kernel. He now acts as the project's coordinator. Linus was inspired by Minix (an operating system developed by Andrew S. Tanenbaum) to develop a capable Unix-like operating system that could be run on a PC. Linux now also runs on many other architectures.
- Matt Cutts
Matt Cutt's wants you to use 'no follow' so that Google can provide better search results. He also has a vested interest in increasing Google's take on Adword sales and this is a nice customer self-service model for Google that doesn't force them to do anything.
- Joel Spolsky
Joel Spolsky started his web log, www.joelonsoftware.com, in March 2000 in order to offer his insights, based on years of experience, on how to improve the world of programming. His extraordinary writing skills, technical knowledge, and caustic wit have made him a programming guru. This log, now legend in the programming world, is linked to more than 600 other websites and translated into more than 30 languages!
- Fred Brooks
Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr. (born April 19, 1931) is a software engineer and computer scientist, best-known for managing the development of OS/360, then later writing candidly about the process in his seminal book "The Mythical Man-Month". "It is a very humbling experience to make a multi-million-dollar mistake, but it is also very memorable." Brooks received a Turing Award in 1999 and many other awards. Born in Durham, North Carolina, he attended Duke University, …
- Joshua Bloch
Joshua Bloch is a software engineer, currently a Principal Engineer at Google. Previously he was a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems and a Senior Systems Designer at Transarc. He led the design and implementation of numerous Java platform features, including the JDK 5.0 language enhancements and the Java Collections Framework. He is the author of the Jolt Award-winning book "Effective Java".
- Andrew Morton
Andrew Keith Paul Morton (born 1959 in England) is an Australian software engineer, best known as one of the lead developers on the Linux kernel project. He currently maintains a patchset known as the "mm" tree, which contains not yet sufficiently tested patches that might later be accepted into the official 2.6 kernel maintained by Linus Torvalds. In the late 1980s, he was one of the partners of a company in Sydney, …
- Bruce Perens
Bruce Perens is a former Debian GNU/Linux Project Leader, the primary author of the Open Source Definition, a founder of Software in the Public Interest, founder and first project leader of the Linux Standard Base project, the initial author of BusyBox, a founder of the UserLinux project, and co-founder of the Open Source Initiative (OSI). Perens also has a book series with Prentice Hall PTR called the Bruce Perens' Open Source Series.
- Bill Joy
Bill Joy served as Sun's Chief Scientist until 2003, and is now a partner with venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers.
- Theo de Raadt
Theo de Raadt,, born May 19, 1968 in Pretoria, South Africa, is a software engineer and hacker who lives in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He is the founder and leader of the OpenBSD and OpenSSH projects. He was also a founding member of the NetBSD project, but a dispute broke out with the NetBSD core team. This complication ultimately led to the creation of the OpenBSD project.
- Mark Russinovich
Mark Russinovich is a software engineer and author who works for Microsoft as a Technical fellow. He is a regular contributor to "TechNet Magazine" and "Windows IT Pro" magazine (previously called "Windows NT Magazine") on the subject of the Architecture of Windows 2000 and was co-author of "Inside Windows 2000" (4th edition). Russinovich is the author of many tools used by Windows NT and Windows 2000 kernel-mode programmers, …
- Vienna Teng
Not so long ago, being a singer-songwriter was merely a hobby for Vienna Teng , a Stanford computer science grad who was on the fast track to a lucrative career, working as a software engineer in Silicon Valley. But she gave all that up to pursue her musical passions - a risky career move, but one which has paid off.
- Dave Cutler
David Neil Cutler, Sr. (born March 13, 1942) is a noted software engineer, designer and developer of several operating systems including the RSX-11, VMS and VAXELN systems of Digital Equipment Corporation and Windows NT from Microsoft.
- Michael Kay
Michael H. Kay (born 11 October 1951) is the editor of the W3C specification of the XSLT 2.0 language for performing XML transformations, and the developer of the Saxon XSLT and XQuery processing software. He is a graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge and gained his Ph.D at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory under Maurice Wilkes. He spent over twenty years with the British computer manufacturer ICL, …
- Anders Hejlsberg
Before joining Microsoft in 1996, Hejlsberg was one of the first employees of Borland International Inc. As principal engineer, he was the original author of Turbo Pascal, a revolutionary integrated development environment, and chief architect of its successor, Delphi. Hejlsberg co-authored "The C# Programming Language", published by Addison Wesley, and has received numerous software patents. In 2001, he was the recipient of the prestigious Dr. Dobbs Excellence in Programming Award.
- Jim Hoffman
Jim Hoffman is a software engineer based in Alameda, California, who has worked in scientific visualization and produced the first visualization of Costa's minimal surface. Hoffman has published several websites presenting 9/11 conspiracy theories and material about the September 11, 2001 attacks.
- Rob Pike
Robert C. Pike (born 1956) is a software engineer and author. He is best known for his work at Bell Labs, where he was a member of the Unix team and was involved in the creation of the Plan 9 from Bell Labs and Inferno operating systems, as well as the Limbo programming language. He also worked on the Blit graphical terminal for Unix; before that he wrote the first window system for Unix in 1981.
- Michael Badnarik
Michael J. Badnarik (born August 1, 1954) is an American software engineer, political figure, and radio talk show host. He was the Libertarian Party nominee for President of the United States in the 2004 elections, and placed fourth in the race, slightly behind independent candidate Ralph Nader. He was recently a Libertarian candidate in the 2006 Congressional elections in Texas for the 10th district seat near Austin. He finished in third place with 4.3% of the vote.
- Andy Hertzfeld
Andy Hertzfeld (born April 6, 1953) was a key member of the original Apple Macintosh development team during the 1980s. After buying an Apple II in January 1978, he went to work for Apple Computer from August 1979 until March 1984, where he was a key designer of the Macintosh system software. Since leaving Apple, he has co-founded three companies: Radius in 1986, General Magic in 1990 and Eazel in 1999. Hertzfeld joined Google in 2005 and has been working there since.
- Raymond Camden
Raymond Camden is a long-time contributor to the ColdFusion community. He has written many books on the subject and presents on ColdFusion topics often. His blog software, BlogCFC, is in use by numerous writers across the world and is completely free and open source. Raymond also shares many other applications covering forums, wikis, and other needs. He is one of the managers of the Acadiana MMUG and runs a "virtual" ColdFusion Jedi User Group over Breeze.
- Mark Allen
Mark Allen is a software engineer, game programmer and game designer. As a student at the University of California, San Diego, Allen developed a 6502 interpreter for the Pascal language in 1978, along with Richard Gleaves. This work later became the basis for Apple Pascal. Later, Allen developed a number of well-received computer games for the Apple II, including "Stellar Invaders", "Sabotage" and "Pest Patrol".
- Jon Lech Johansen
Jon Lech Johansen (born November 18, 1983 in Harstad, Norway), also known as DVD Jon, is a Norwegian (his father is Norwegian and mother is Polish) who is famous for his work on reverse engineering data formats. He is most famous for his involvement in the release of the DeCSS software, which decodes the content-scrambling system used for DVD licensing enforcement.
- Mark Fletcher
Mark Fletcher was the founder and CEO of the news aggregator website, Bloglines, and a Vice President of Ask.com until June 2006. Ask Jeeves acquired Bloglines on 8 February 2005. In February 2005, Fletcher won one of the annual Rave Awards, presented by "Wired" magazine. Fellow nominees in the Tech Innovator category were Jimmy Wales who is a co-founder of Wikipedia, Adam Curry, Bill Healy and Zhang Zuoyi.
- Steve Maguire
Steve Maguire is a renowned software engineer and author of software engineering topics. He is the author of two books on software development, "Writing Solid Code" and "Debugging the Development Process". Maguire attended the University of Arizona where he earned with a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering though most of his work has been with computer software. Maguire's professional work spans two nations, Japan and the United States.
- Michael Barr
Michael Barr is a software engineer and author, specializing in embedded systems. He is a past Editor-in-Chief of Embedded Systems Programming magazine. Barr authored the book "Programming Embedded Systems in C and C++", and co-authored (with Jack Ganssle) the "Embedded Systems Dictionary". Michael Barr has provided expert witness testimony in federal court (in connection with the DirecTV end user lawsuits relating to satellite TV piracy), …
- Atul Chitnis
Atul Chitnis (1962-) is an Indian consulting technologist known for his work in the fields of data networks, internet and intranets, Linux and Free and Open Source Software and mobile computing in India. He is also the founder of FOSS.IN (formerly Linux Bangalore), one of Asia's largest FOSS conferences.
- Brad Templeton
Brad Templeton (born near Toronto in 1960), son of Charles Templeton and Sylvia Murphy, is a software engineer and entrepreneur. Templeton is considered one of the early luminaries of Usenet, and in 1989 founded ClariNet, which uses Usenet protocols to distribute news articles, one of the first commercial examples of electronic publishing. In his "Net History in Brief" post, he coined the phrase "Imminent death of net predicted".
- Sean Egan
Sean Egan is the project leader of Pidgin, a popular instant messaging client. He is also a software engineer at Google, where he has worked on Google Talk.
- Steve McIntyre
Steve McIntyre is a software engineer and a long-time Debian developer. His best known contributions have been in the field of creating Debian CD/DVD images; he is the "debian-cd" team leader and is responsible for generating the official images. McIntyre ran for the post of Debian Project Leader in 2006 but was defeated by Anthony Towns by only six effective votes. In 2006-2007, he was named "Second in charge", a post created for him by Towns.
- Carsten Haitzler
Carsten Haitzler (born 1975), known as Raster or Rasterman to the open source community, is an Australian/German (his father is German and his mother is Finnish) software engineer best known for initiating the development of the Enlightenment X-Window Manager for UNIX/Linux. He now acts as the project's lead developer. He currently resides in Tokyo, Japan with his girlfriend Meg.
- Michael Perry
Michael D. Perry, is a United States software engineer. He is the founder of InterCommerce Corporation. Originally a programmer and software designer, he founded Progressive Computer Services, Inc., which published utility software for the IBM PC market. The company was best-known for EZ-Menu, a utility that was declared "PC Magazine" "Editor's Choice", "PC Home Journal" "Best Product", and "Personal Computing Magazine" H "Publisher's Pick".
- Ellen Spertus
Ellen Spertus is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Mills College and a part-time software engineer at Google. In 2001 she was named The Sexiest Geek Alive. She is the author of technical as well as social articles, often combining the two. She attended MIT, where she received her bachelor's degree (1990), master's degree (1992), and Ph.D. (1998).
- Robert Cooper
Robert Cooper is a notable software developer and engineer. He is founder of the FeedPod [https://feedpod.dev.java.net/] project, O'Reilly OnJavablogger and contributor to many other Java and open source projects. He is co-founder of and contributor to Screaming Penguin.
- Dale Pendell
Dale Pendell is a contemporary author who combines science and poetry in his explications of the relationship between psychoactive compounds and human beings. A long time student of ethnobotany, Pendell discusses historical and cultural uses of "power plants" in his works. He reads and distills the literature of pharmacology and neuroscience, of ethnobotany and anthropology, …
- Ken Coar
KEN COAR Ken Coar is an IBM software engineer by profession, a core developer of the Apache project, and a vice-president and director of The Apache Software Foundation.
- Jeffrey Friedl
Jeffrey Friedl (born 1966, "Friedl" sounds like "free-dole") is a software engineer known for his book on regular expressions, "Mastering Regular Expressions" (O'Reilly 1997, 2002, 2006).
- Andrey Golub
BSc- Applied Mathematics/ Software Engineering, PhD- Systems Analysis and Design. Who's Who in the World- 2008 (Marquis), . Prof: IT/TLC/Web Project- Product Manager, Sr.Systems/ Business Analyst and Team Leader. Web: Web 2.0 Evangelist and Researcher (Marketing 2.0/ PR 2.0/ Community Manager) with some broad experience in leading Open-Community (and Open-Source) projects.Co-founder, VP and IT/Web Manager of Business Club 2.0 Milan-IN (official LinkedIn Italia supporter Club).
- Kristen Nygaard
Kristen Nygaard (August 27, 1926 - August 10, 2002) was a Norwegian mathematician, computer programming language pioneer and politician. He was born in Oslo and died of a heart attack in 2002.
- Keith Stattenfield
Keith Stattenfield is a senior Apple Computer software engineer. He was technical lead of Mac OS 9, the lead for Netbooting of Mac OS 8.6 and later, and before that worked as an engineer on the Macintosh Operating system back to Mac OS 7.5 in 1995. He started at Apple Computer in 1989 in the Information Systems & Technology group. He has often presented at conferences such as Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference and MacHack (convention).
- Fyodor
Fyodor is the pseudonym of network security expert, open source programmer, writer, and self-proclaimed hacker Gordon Lyon. He authored the open source Nmap Security Scanner and numerous books, web sites, and technical papers focusing on network security. Fyodor is a founding member of the Honeynet Project and a board member of the Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility.
- Priyanka Chopra
Free Picture Gallery of Priyanka Chopra including pictures, wallpapers, photos, images and movie stills. Priyanka Chopra Biography Priyanka Chopra was born in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India on 18th July 1982 to Cap. Dr. Ashok Chopra & Dr. Madhu Chopra . Priyanka Chopra was brought up at Bareli, Uttar Pradesh. Since her father was in the army, her family frequently traveled. She studied at La Martiniere Girls Hostel in Lucknow, as a young girl.