- Dries Buytaert
Dries Buytaert (19 November 1978 -) is an open-source software programmer and the founder of the Drupal CMS. He still heads the Drupal project. He resides in Belgium and as of 2003 he is a PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Ghent. From 1999-2000 he was the maintainer of the "GNU/Linux WLAN FAQ".
- Jeremy Zawodny
Jeremy Zawodny is currently an employee of Yahoo! in the platform engineering group. He has been described as "Yahoo!'s MySQL guru". He maintains a popular weblog focused on Yahoo! initiatives, which is listed in CNET News.com's index of the 100 best technology-related blogs. According to CNET, Zawodny has "helped put MySQL and other open-source technologies to use".
- James Gosling
James Gosling is a VP & Fellow at Sun Microsystems. He has built satellite data acquisition systems, a multiprocessor version of Unix, several compilers, mail systems ,and window managers. He has also built a WYSIWYG text editor, a constraint-based drawing editor, and a text editor called "Emacs" for Unix systems. At Sun, his early activity was as lead engineer of the NeWS window system.
- Nikhil Kothari
Nikhil Kothari is an architect on the Web/ASP.NET team at Microsoft, and is primarily responsible for the server controls framework, Atlas (Ajax Framework) framework, and ScriptSharp. He is the author of "Developing ASP.NET Server Controls and Components" - which is the book on writing server controls. He is also the creator of ASP.NET Web Matrix.
- 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.
- Del Webb
Delbert E. Webb (May 17 1899 - July 4 1974) was an American construction magnate, real estate developer and sports-team owner who is significant for founding and developing the retirement community of Sun City, Arizona. He was born in Fresno, California and dropped out of high school to become a carpenter's apprentice. At the age of 28, he suffered typhoid fever, and as a result moved to Phoenix, Arizona to recover.
- John Romero
John Romero is EVP of Game Development at Slipgate Ironworks, a new Bay Area MMO company he co-founded in September 2005. He was a co-Founder of Inside Out Software, Ideas From The Deep, id Software, Ion Storm, and Monkeystone Games. From his early Apple IIe games to the legendary Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Doom II, Heretic, Hexen, and Quake, Romero has made an indelible mark on the computer gaming industry.
- Rory Blyth
Rory Blyth is a famous technology blogger known for his wit and humor. He became famous among Microsoft .NET developers as a co-host to the popular podcast .NET Rocks.
- Matthew Abram Groening
Growing up in Portland, Oregon, Matt Groening did not take a particular interest in school, which is what originaly turned him towards drawing. In the mid-1980' s, Matt Groening moved to Los... ... Matt Groening created The Simpsons. Matt Groening created Futurama. The Simpsons is one of the greatest shows ever. Furturama is one of the greatest shows ever. Because of this Simpsons fact Matt Groening is one of the all-time greats. Because of...
- Jeremy Allison
Jeremy Allison is a computer programmer famous for his contributions to the free software community, notably to Samba, a re-implementation of SMB/CIFS networking protocol, released under the GNU General Public License. Other contributions include the early versions of the pwdump password cracking utility
- Steve Wynn
Stephen Alan Wynn (born January 27, 1942 in New Haven, Connecticut) is a casino resort developer. He is credited with spearheading the dramatic resurgence and expansion of the Las Vegas Strip in the 1990s. Wynn currently lives with his wife in a suite at Wynn Las Vegas, until their home in the Southern Highlands Golf Club is completed. Wynn suffers from retinitis pigmentosa which affects his peripheral vision and therefore his interaction with proximate objects.
- Forest City Enterprises
Forest City Enterprises is a $9-billion diversified real estate management and development company based in Cleveland, Ohio. Its portfolio includes interests in retail centers, apartment communities, office buildings and mixed-use projects in the U.S. The company has recently expanded into military housing communities
- John Smedley
John Smedley is a computer game programmer who is the President of Sony Online Entertainment as of 2007. In 2007, he announced a change in direction for Sony Online Entertainment, including a broadening of business models beyond the subscription model and pursuing female consumers to balance their audience, which was 85% male at the time.
- Andy Hunt
Andy Hunt (sometimes credited as Andrew Hunt) is a writer of books on software development. Hunt co-authored "The Pragmatic Programmer", five other books and many articles, and was one of the 17 original signatories of the Agile Manifesto and founders of the Agile Alliance. He and partner Dave Thomas founded the Pragmatic Bookshelf series of books for software developers.
- Chris Sawyer
"Chris Sawyer" is a Scottish computer game developer who is best-known for designing and programming "RollerCoaster Tycoon", "RollerCoaster Tycoon 2", and "Transport Tycoon". He entered the games industry in 1983, writing games in Z80 machine code on the Memotech MTX home computer, and then the Amstrad CPC series home computer. Some of these were published by Ariolasoft, "Sepulcri Scelerati" and "Ziggurat".
- Bobby Kotick
Robert "Bobby" Kotick, chairman and CEO of American computer game company Activision, Inc., is credited for bringing back a near bankrupt game company (Activision) and transforming it into one of the most successful publishing houses to date. At a time when game companies were laying off droves of employees and closing their doors, with Kotick's lead, Activision grouped together key staff, signed on star developers, …
- Lutz Roeder
Lutz Roeder is the creator of .NET Reflector, a popular class browser and decompiler for the Microsoft .NET platform. Roeder currently works at Microsoft, where he helped start the development of Microsoft Expression Blend as one of the early members of the Microsoft Expression group. He was previously working with Charles Simonyi on Intentional Programming. Roeder holds a masters degree from the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.
- Seth MacFarlane
Seth Woodbury MacFarlane (born October 26, 1973) is a two-time Emmy-winning American animator, screenwriter, producer, director, and voice actor. He is best known as the creator of the animated series "Family Guy" and "American Dad!". He was also the executive producer of the short-lived series, "The Winner".
- Trump Organization
The Trump Organization is the primary company of Donald Trump, a prominent American real estate developer. Trump is the current CEO of the company. The company oversees nearly all of the business development interests of Donald Trump, such as real estate, hotels, golf clubs, etc. (but excluding the casinos). Trump is Chairman of the Board of Trump Entertainment Resorts. The Trump Organization is headquartered in the Trump tower in Manhattan, New York.
- Jeff Waugh
Jeff Waugh (known as "jdub") is an Australian free software and open source software developer. He is a consultant for Waugh Partners and is very active in the GNOME free software community. He is married to Pia Waugh - another active member of the free software community in Australia.
- Kush Games
Kush Games is a video game developer based out of Camarillo, California. They focus on non-violent, sports video games such as MLB Baseball 2K and NHL 2K. They have created video games for most next-gen consoles including Playstation 2, PSP, GameCube, Xbox, Playstation 3 and Xbox 360.
- Steven Frank
Steven Frank is a Macintosh developer and the author of the popular webcomic "Spamusement!" Frank is a co-founder of the software company Panic. He is thought of by his fans as having a stylish haircut and a pipe, from one of his Spamusement strips, Want to go on a cruise on us stevenf?. His family and friends, however, know him to be the wizard painted on the side of the van in Impress the Females
- Danny Thorpe
Danny Thorpe is a developer working with Microsoft's Windows Live Platform team. He was the Chief Scientist for Windows and .NET developer tools at Borland Corporation starting from January 2004 until October 2005, as well as Chief Architect of the Delphi programming language from 2000 to 2005. He joined Borland in 1990 as an associate QA engineer working on Turbo Pascal 6.0. He was a member of the team that created the Delphi programming language, …
- Emily Chang
Emily Chang is an award-winning web designer and artist. She is the co-founder and co-principal of Ideacodes, a strategic design firm in San Francisco that she started in 2005 with Max Kiesler, her long-time partner and fellow award-winning web designer. Emily is also the creator of the popular blog and web resource, eHub, a constantly updated list of web applications, services, resources, blogs or sites with a focus on next generation web (web 2.0), social software, …
- Eric Miller
Sir Eric Miller (1927 - 22 September 1977) was an English-Jewish businessman who committed suicide while under investigation for fraud.
- Mark Healey
Mark Healey is a UK based computer games developer. Healey was formerly an artist at Lionhead Studios who developed "Rag Doll Kung Fu" independently. He is the founder of Media Molecule, a computer games studio currently working on its first project, a cooperative platformer for the Playstation 3 entitled "LittleBigPlanet".
- Robert Cailliau
Robert Cailliau (b. 26 January 1947) is one of the co-developers of the World Wide Web.
- Donald Becker
Donald Becker is a notable developer well known for writing many of the Ethernet drivers for the Linux operating system. Thousands of computers around the world routinely use his drivers to connect to the Internet. Becker also created Beowulf clustering while at NASA, using software to connect many inexpensive PCs to solve complex math problems typically reserved for classic supercomputers.
- Gary Barnett
Gary Barnett is the President of Extell Development, Based in New York City. First was a residential purchase that topped the charts for New York City: Extell - a national real estate developer as well as construction and asset manager in office, retail and multifamily properties - paid a reported $1.76 billion for a swath of land on the Upper West Side owned by Donald Trump and several Hong Kong-based partners.
- Yasunori Mitsuda
Yasunori Mitsuda is a Japanese composer, sound programmer and musician best known for his work in video game music, specifically "Chrono Trigger", "Chrono Cross", "Shadow Hearts", "Shadow Hearts: Covenant", "Xenogears", "Xenosaga Episode I: Der Wille zur Macht", and "Mario Party".
- Brian Fargo
Brian Fargo is a computer game developer and notable game industry figure. In 1984 Fargo founded Interplay Entertainment, where he worked on most of Interplay's early games (e.g. "Bard's Tale" and "Wasteland"). He was the company's CEO until 2002, when majority control of Interplay was acquired by Titus Interactive, and he left the company. He had also worked with Brainstorm (Publisher), developing Chess Mates.
- 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.
- Alexander Brandon
Alexander Brandon (also known as Siren in the demoscene and tracker community, b. 1974) is a US musician, former member of Straylight Productions, who composed music mostly for games produced by Epic Games, or games based on Epic technology, including "Unreal", "Unreal Tournament", "Deus Ex", "Tyrian", "Jazz Jackrabbit 2" and the cancelled game "Jazz Jackrabbit 3D".
- Verity Stob
Verity Stob is a pseudonym of a programmer based in the UK who also contributes articles to journals: she first wrote for .EXE magazine (defunct), then Dr. Dobb's Journal, and currently contributes to The Register. Her texts are famous for sharp wit. The name 'Verity' was chosen in honour of Verity Lambert, the first producer of Doctor Who, …
- Jim Nicholson
Robert James "Jim" Nicholson (born February 4, 1938) is an attorney, real estate developer, and more recently, and a former Republican Party chairman. He has been the United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs since January 26, 2005. On on July 17 2007, he announced that he was stepping down as Secretary, effective October 1 2007.
- Paul Eibeler
Paul Eibeler (born ca. 1956) was the Chief Executive Officer, President, and a director of Take-Two Interactive, a publisher, developer, and distributor of video and computer games, well-known for the Grand Theft Auto series. Under Eibeler's leadership, Take-Two Interactive missed earnings estimates on multiple occasions. The Hot Coffee minigame controversy, which involved secretly adding sexually explicit content to the popular Grand Theft Auto - San Andreas game, …
- David Gerrold
David Gerrold, born Jerrold David Friedman (January 24, 1944), in Chicago, Illinois, is an award-winning science fiction author who started his career in 1966 as a college student by submitting an unsolicited story outline for the television series "Star Trek". He was invited to submit several premises, and the one chosen by "Star Trek" was filmed as "The Trouble with Tribbles", …
- Garrett Kelleher
Garrett Kelleher is the founder of Shelbourne Development, a Dublin development and real estate firm and is the owner of the Irish football club St Patrick's Athletic FC. Kelleher is former Chicago resident, who currently lives in Ireland. It has been reported that he will soon return to Chicago to oversee the latest developments and construction of the Chicago Spire, one of Shelbourne Development's key projects.
- Martin Krafft
Martin Felix Krafft (b. February 14, 1979) is a prominent Debian developer (nicknamed madduck), computer science enthusiast, and freelance security and open-source consultant. He is the author of the book The Debian System (ISBN 3-937514-07-4 / ISBN 1-59327-069-0), which has been translated to German, Japanese, and French. A Chinese translation is in the works, and other languages are planned.
- Corky McMillin
Macey L. "Corky" McMillin Jr. (January 14, 1929 - September 22, 2005) was a well-known off-road desert racer and land developer. Corky moved from Missouri to Chula Vista when he was 14 and started a small construction company in Bonita, California in 1960, with his wife, Vonnie, looking after the accounting duties. While McMillin was busy building houses, he loved taking his family to the Imperial Sand Dunes on the weekends.