Linus Torvalds

Linus Torvalds

male, 39 years old
Linus Benedict Torvalds ; born December 28, 1969 in Helsinki, Finland, is a Finnish software engineer best known for initiating the development of...
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,...
Eben Moglen

Eben Moglen

male (New York, New York, United States)
Eben Moglen is a professor of law and legal history at Columbia University, and is the founder, Director-Counsel and Chairman of Software Freedom...
Larry Wall

Larry Wall

male, 55 years old
Larry Wall (born September 27, 1954) is a programmer, linguist, and author, most widely known for his creation of the Perl programming language in...
Adam Smith

Adam Smith

male, 44 years old
Adam Smith was born on June 15, 1965 and his lived his entire life in the Ninth District. He grew up in the SeaTac area of South King County and...

Richard Bannister

male
Richard Bannister is a programmer of emulation software for the Mac OS X platform. He currently maintains twenty-eight different emulators,...
Gene Kan

Gene Kan

male, deceased (2002)
Gene Kan (1976 - 2002) was a peer-to-peer file-sharing programmer who was among the first programmers to produce an open-source version of the...
Victor Shoup

Victor Shoup

male
Victor Shoup is a computer scientist and mathematician. He obtained a PhD in computer science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1989, and...
Raphaël Rousseau

Raphaël Rousseau

male
I work as an independent worker, mainly in France and Switzerland, but virtually everywhere thanks to the Internet.I focus on socio-technical...