Grace Hopper

Grace Hopper

female, deceased (1992)
Women in the United States Navy, American military personnel of World War II, Harvard Mark I, Programming language designer, Yale University alumni, computer programming…compiler, inventor of the compiler
Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper was an American computer scientist and United States Navy officer. A pioneer in the field, she was one of the...
Erik Meijer

Erik Meijer

male
Microsoft Research, programming language design, foreign function interfaces, parsing, Nijmegen University, Radboud University Nijmegen…compiler
Erik Meijer is a Dutch computer scientist who is currently a software architect at Microsoft Research. He was previously a professor at Utrecht...

Ken Kennedy

male, deceased (2007)
professor, Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, W. W. McDowell Award, vectorizer, vectorization, IEEE Computer Society…compiler, Massively Scalar Compiler Project
American computer scientist Ken Kennedy (August 12,1945 - February 7,2007) was a professor at Rice University, and the founding chairman of Rice's...

Dj Delorie

male
computer pioneer, Microsoft Windows, c++, C programming language, IBM PC, compiler
DJ Delorie is a US-American software developer. He initiated and maintains the DJGPP project, a very successful, free port of the GNU C/C++...

P. J. Plauger

male
Child of the Future, compiler, child, puberty, Hugo Award, Astounding
P. J. Plauger is an author and entrepreneur. He has written and co-written articles and books about programming style, software tools, and the C...

Andrew Appel

male
Standard ML of New Jersey, Compiling With Continuations, Carnegie Mellon University alumni, Princeton University, Andrew W. Appel, Modern Compiler Implementation in ML…compiler
Andrew W. Appel is a professor of computer science at Princeton University, New Jersey. He is especially well-known because of his compiler books,...
Julian Seward

Julian Seward

male
computer programmer, compiler, open source, valgrind, bzip2, author
Julian Seward founded the Valgrind project in 2000 and is the project lead and a full time developer. His background is in compiler technology for...
Alan Perlis

Alan Perlis

male, deceased (1990)
national academy of engineering, Project Whirlwind, Yale University faculty, purdue university, Carnegie Mellon University alumni, epigram…compiler
Alan Jay Perlis (April 1, 1922 - February 7, 1990) was an American computer scientist known for his pioneering work in programming languages and...
Yukihiro Matsumoto

Yukihiro Matsumoto

male, 44 years old
Ruby programming language, ruby, matz, computer scientist, programming language creator, Japanese computer scientist…compiler
is a Japanese computer scientist and software programmer best known as the chief designer of the Ruby programming language. He was born in Osaka...

Jeanne Ferrante

female
Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, University of California, San Diego faculty, Association for Computing Machinery, fellow, compiler, University of California San Diego
Jeanne Ferrante is a computer scientist active in the field of compiler technology, where she has made important contributions regarding...