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,...
James Gosling

James Gosling

male, 54 years old (California, United States)
James Gosling is a VP & Fellow at Sun Microsystems. He has built satellite data acquisition systems, a multiprocessor version of Unix, several...
Jamie Zawinski

Jamie Zawinski

male, 41 years old
Jamie W. Zawinski (born November 3, 1968 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), commonly known as jwz, is a computer programmer responsible for significant...

Robert J. Chassell

male
Robert (aka "Bob") Chassell was one of the founding directors of Free Software Foundation (FSF) in 1985. While on the Board of Directors, Chassell...
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

male, 41 years old
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen (b. 25 July 1968) is a programmer living in Norway. He is the author and maintainer of Gnus, an Emacs-based e-mail and news...

Guy L. Steele Jr.

male
Guy Steele is a Sun Fellow for Sun Microsystems Laboratories, working on the Programming Language Research project.

Shawn Betts

male
Shawn Betts is a Canadian computer programmer who is the author of the ratpoison and Stumpwm X11 X window managers, as well as the conkeror web...
Spencer Kimball

Spencer Kimball

male
Spencer Kimball is a computer programmer most notable for his early work on the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP). In 1995, while students at...
Eric S. Raymond

Eric S. Raymond

male, 52 years old
Eric Steven Raymond (born December 4, 1957), often referred to as ESR, is a computer programmer, author and advocate for the open source movement....
Neal Stephenson

Neal Stephenson

male, 50 years old
Neal Town Stephenson (born October 31, 1959) is an American writer, known primarily for his science fiction works in the postcyberpunk genre with a...