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,...
Miguel de Icaza

Miguel de Icaza

male, 37 years old
Miguel de Icaza (born c. 1972) is a Mexican free software programmer, best known for starting the GNOME and Mono projects. Miguel de Icaza was born...

Maureen O'Gara

female
Maureen O'Gara is an American technology journalist. Through her company G2 Computer Intelligence, Inc., O'Gara publishes three paid subscription...
Ken Thompson

Ken Thompson

male, 66 years old
Kenneth Lane Thompson (born February 4 1943), commonly referred to as Ken Thompson (or simply Ken in hacker circles), is an American pioneer of...
Dennis Ritchie

Dennis Ritchie

male, 68 years old
Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie (born September 9, 1941) is an American computer scientist notable for his influence on ALTRAN, B, BCPL, C, Multics, and...
W. Richard Stevens

W. Richard Stevens

male, deceased (1999)
William Richard (Rich) Stevens (February 5 1951 Luanshya, Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) - September 1 1999) was one of the most famous and widely...
Andrew Morton

Andrew Morton

male, 50 years old
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...
Tom Christiansen

Tom Christiansen

male
Tom Christiansen (also nicknamed "tchrist" or occasionally "thoth") is a well-known Unix developer and user especially known for his many...
Brian Kernighan

Brian Kernighan

male, 67 years old
Brian Wilson Kernighan, (born 1942 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a computer scientist who worked at Bell Labs alongside Unix creators Ken...
Rob Enderle

Rob Enderle

male
Rob Enderle, founder of the Enderle Group, is a consultant, writer, and widely quoted technical and legal analyst in the information technology...