Bill Gates

Bill Gates

male, 54 years old (Seattle, Washington, United States)
William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and the chairman of Microsoft, the software company he...
John Backus

John Backus

male, deceased (2007) (San Francisco, California, United States)
John Warner Backus was an American computer scientist. He led the team that invented the first widely used high-level programming language...
Cleve Moler

Cleve Moler

male
Cleve Barry Moler is a mathematician and computer programmer specializing in numerical analysis. In the mid to late 1970s, he was one of the...

Guy L. Steele Jr.

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

Roedy Green

male, 61 years old
Roedy Green (born "Munroe Frederic Compton Green" on February 4 1948) is a Canadian programmer, independent computer consultant, and activist. He...

Daniel D. McCracken

male
Daniel D. McCracken, Professor of Computer Sciences at City College, City University of New York, is the author of over two dozen textbooks on...
Betty Holberton

Betty Holberton

female, deceased (2001)
Betty Holberton (March 7 1917 - December 8 2001) was one of the original ENIAC crew. She was born Frances Elizabeth Snyder in Philadelphia in 1917....

William Crowther

male
William ("Willie" or "Will") Crowther (born 1936) is a computer programmer and caver. He is best known as the co-creator of "Colossal Cave...
Lois Haibt

Lois Haibt

female
Lois Haibt is perhaps most famous for being a member of the ten person team that invented FORTRAN, the first successful high level programming...

George Hart

male
George A. Hart is a physicist best known for the invention of the excimer laser. In 1975, Dr. Hart along with his Naval Research Laboratory...