- Fred Brooks
Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr. (born April 19, 1931) is a software engineer and computer scientist, best-known for managing the development of OS/360, then later writing candidly about the process in his seminal book "The Mythical Man-Month". "It is a very humbling experience to make a multi-million-dollar mistake, but it is also very memorable." Brooks received a Turing Award in 1999 and many other awards. Born in Durham, North Carolina, he attended Duke University, …
- Bruce Perens
Bruce Perens is a former Debian GNU/Linux Project Leader, the primary author of the Open Source Definition, a founder of Software in the Public Interest, founder and first project leader of the Linux Standard Base project, the initial author of BusyBox, a founder of the UserLinux project, and co-founder of the Open Source Initiative (OSI). Perens also has a book series with Prentice Hall PTR called the Bruce Perens' Open Source Series.
- Bill Joy
Bill Joy served as Sun's Chief Scientist until 2003, and is now a partner with venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers.
- Dave Cutler
David Neil Cutler, Sr. (born March 13, 1942) is a noted software engineer, designer and developer of several operating systems including the RSX-11, VMS and VAXELN systems of Digital Equipment Corporation and Windows NT from Microsoft.
- Anders Hejlsberg
Before joining Microsoft in 1996, Hejlsberg was one of the first employees of Borland International Inc. As principal engineer, he was the original author of Turbo Pascal, a revolutionary integrated development environment, and chief architect of its successor, Delphi. Hejlsberg co-authored "The C# Programming Language", published by Addison Wesley, and has received numerous software patents. In 2001, he was the recipient of the prestigious Dr. Dobbs Excellence in Programming Award.
- Rob Pike
Robert C. Pike (born 1956) is a software engineer and author. He is best known for his work at Bell Labs, where he was a member of the Unix team and was involved in the creation of the Plan 9 from Bell Labs and Inferno operating systems, as well as the Limbo programming language. He also worked on the Blit graphical terminal for Unix; before that he wrote the first window system for Unix in 1981.
- Kristen Nygaard
Kristen Nygaard (August 27, 1926 - August 10, 2002) was a Norwegian mathematician, computer programming language pioneer and politician. He was born in Oslo and died of a heart attack in 2002.
- Vipul Ved Prakash
Vipul Ved Prakash Founder and Chief Scientist Vipul Ved Prakash is a well known computer scientist and software engineer. A quintessential innovator, Vipul has repeatedly turned popular wisdom on its head to create clever solutions to hard problems. At the age of 18 he founded Sense/Net, a company that bootstrapped Internet connectivity in India by creating an unconventional meta-network of IP tunnels.
- Steve Maguire
Steve Maguire is a renowned software engineer and author of software engineering topics. He is the author of two books on software development, "Writing Solid Code" and "Debugging the Development Process". Maguire attended the University of Arizona where he earned with a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering though most of his work has been with computer software. Maguire's professional work spans two nations, Japan and the United States.
- Sean Egan
Sean Egan is the project leader of Pidgin, a popular instant messaging client. He is also a software engineer at Google, where he has worked on Google Talk.
- Ellen Spertus
Ellen Spertus is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Mills College and a part-time software engineer at Google. In 2001 she was named The Sexiest Geek Alive. She is the author of technical as well as social articles, often combining the two. She attended MIT, where she received her bachelor's degree (1990), master's degree (1992), and Ph.D. (1998).
- Ken Coar
KEN COAR Ken Coar is an IBM software engineer by profession, a core developer of the Apache project, and a vice-president and director of The Apache Software Foundation.
- Andrey Golub
BSc- Applied Mathematics/ Software Engineering, PhD- Systems Analysis and Design. Who's Who in the World- 2008 (Marquis), . Prof: IT/TLC/Web Project- Product Manager, Sr.Systems/ Business Analyst and Team Leader. Web: Web 2.0 Evangelist and Researcher (Marketing 2.0/ PR 2.0/ Community Manager) with some broad experience in leading Open-Community (and Open-Source) projects.Co-founder, VP and IT/Web Manager of Business Club 2.0 Milan-IN (official LinkedIn Italia supporter Club).
- Dick Hustvedt
Richard (Dick) Irvin Hustvedt (born February 18, 1946) is a renowned software engineer, designer and developer of several operating systems including the RSX-11, 782 ASMP and VMS (OpenVMS) systems of Digital Equipment Corporation. He also was a principal kernel developer of the Xerox Data Systems (XDS) RAD-75, RBM-1 and CP-V operating systems.
- Steve Badera
Steve Badera is currently a senior at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, majoring in computer and systems engineering. Steve´s area of expertise are software engineering, computer and network security, and IT/Networking. Steve also has an extensive background in Biomedical engineering and Polymer and Materials Science.
- Laszlo Belady
Laszlo Belady (born April 29 1928 in Hungary) is a computer scientist notable for devising the Belady's Min theoretical memory caching algorithm in 1966 while working at IBM Research. He also demonstrated the existence of a Belady's anomaly. In his later years at IBM he was responsible for Software engineering worldwide until leaving for Tokyo to create its software research lab. He retired from IBM two years later.
- Bruce Webster
Bruce Webster is an internationally recognized expert on information technology, as well as a software engineer, an entrepreneur and a former game programmer. Webster is a 1978 graduate of Brigham Young University with a bachelor's degree in computer science. He also did graduate work in computer science at the University of Houston-Clear Lake in southeast Houston, Texas.
- Wolfgang Nebel
Wolfgang Nebel (born November 18, 1956) is a German computer scientist and professor for integrated circuit design at the computer science (Informatik) department of the Carl von Ossietzky University at Oldenburg, Germany.
- J. Anthony Hall
J. Anthony Hall is a leading British software engineer specializing in the use of formal methods. Anthony Hall was educated at the University of Oxford with a BA in chemistry and a DPhil in theoretical chemistry. His subsequent posts have included: * ICI Research Fellow, Department of Theoretical Chemistry, University of Sheffield (1971–1973) * Principal Scientific Officer, British Museum Research Laboratory (1973–1980) * Senior Consultant, …
- Anthony James Barr
Anthony James Barr, aka Tony Barr or Jim Barr, born 1940, is a software engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur. Among his notable contributions are the Statistical Analysis System (SAS), automated lumber yield optimization, and the Automated Classification of Medical Entities (ACME).
- Bram Cohen
Bram Cohen Chief Scientist and Co-founder Bram Cohen is the Chief Scientist and co-founder of BitTorrent, Inc. and the creator of the BitTorrent peer-to-peer (P2P) file distribution protocol. Bram is also the co-founder of CodeCon and the co-author of Codeville. Prior to the creation of BitTorrent, Bram worked at MojoNation.
- Peter G. Gyarmati
Peter G. Gyarmati is a software engineer and computer scientist, best-known for the development of OS/360+HASP for the System/360, then later the OS/VS for the System/370, especially the resource allocation system. He introduced here the adaptive allocation strategy based on his earlier engineering works. Born in Budapest, Hungary there he received BSc (Eng) from the Budapesti Műszaki Egyetem, Hungary and MSc from Manchester University, England in 1972, …
- Anja Lee
typical new yorker. rude, judgemental (till i meet you), intellectual snob, loves shopping, eating, and cooking.
- Carolyn Seaman
Dr. Seaman is an Associate Professor at UMBC in Baltimore and a Scientist at the Fraunhofer Center, Maryland. Her research emphasizes software measurement, maintenance, communication, and qualitative research methods. She holds degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Maryland, Georgia Tech, and the College of Wooster (Ohio).
- Steve Nelson
Steve Nelson Executive Vice President, Chief Strategy Officer Steve Nelson is the master juggler of all the disciplines that Clear Ink merges to create effective online communications. Steve Nelson is the master juggler of all the disciplines that Clear Ink merges to create effective online communications.
- Mike Dugan
Mike Dugan , Sr. Software Engineer Although Mike cannot leap buildings in a single bound, he can practically absorb a client’s problem space; making their problem his. His uncanny ability to elicit requirements and then rapidly design and build a custom solution make this classically trained Computer Scientist from the University of Colorado a strong ally in the world of software development.
- Matt Davies
Matt Davies Bio Matt Davies is an Environmental Scientist, Software Engineer and Chief Programming Officer of Ecological Internet. He specialises in Internet technologies and database programming having worked in blue chip and internet companies for the past ten years. Matt holds a Degree in Environmental Science from the University of Wolverhampton. He enjoys travel, real ale and the delightful cooking of his beautiful fiancé Mary.
- Gregory Alan Bolcer
A unique and talented individual with a blend of deep technical expertise and business development experience; well connected in the Internet and software industries; a pioneer in the Web application, Web protocol and Peer to Peer (P2P) networking spaces; excellent early-stage fundraising skills; strong ties to academia; high profile high-tech Industry news and analyst presence; experience in both buy-side and sell-side mergers & acquisitions.
- Mark T. Anikst
Mark T. Anikst In 18 years of involvement with speech recognition, Mark T. Anikst , speech scientist and software engineer, has seen technology break the confines of research labs and enter the mainstream. He participated in pioneering research and development of speech recognition engines and in speech enabling of various applications, including medical transcription, air traffic control and warehouse operations.
- Camille Monnier
- Dale Murphy
Dale Murphy , 49 Deputy vice-chancellor responsible for the Higher Education Division at Swinburne University of Technology Professor Dale Murphy is most proud of professionally mastering microprocessor system design and programming in the 1970s . He aspires to make Swinburne a leading university, respected for its research, teaching and industry relevance.
- Carolyn Seaman
Dr. Seaman is an Associate Professor at UMBC in Baltimore and a Scientist at the Fraunhofer Center, Maryland. Her research emphasizes software measurement, maintenance, communication, and qualitative research methods. She holds degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Maryland, Georgia Tech, and the College of Wooster (Ohio).
- Aileen Kao
Aileen Kao , M.S. ’83 Her Honor the Mayor Aileen Kao stands at the forefront of a quiet revolution taking place in Santa Clara County, Calif. As the mayor of Saratoga, an affluent community of almost 30,000 in San Francisco’s Bay Area, the 55-year-old is one of five Asian immigrants elected to mayoral posts in the county late last year.
- Jeffrey Graham
Jeffrey Graham - Xilinx Jeffrey Graham did not need persuasion to move to Scotland - the Australian software engineer asked Xilinx to find him a job here. Jeffrey had been using Xilinx tools in his job with an Australian government-funded science organisation when an American contact at Xilinx mentioned to him back in 2000 that the company had vacancies.
- Tobias Schreiner
- Vida Amani
Over 20 years of progressive and diversified experience in the computer industry. Solid record of developing and bringing to market leading-edge software and system products. Proven inspirational leader, emphasizing teamwork. Effective in applying business, technical and marketing management abilities in growth and turnaround situations. Experience in desktop, enterprise applications, networking and in all phases of software development life cycle.
- Dan Connolly
Dan Connolly is a research scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory ( CSAIL ) in the Decentralized Information Group ( DIG ) and a member of the technical staff of the World Wide Web Consortium ( W3C ). His research interest is investigating the value of formal descriptions of complex systems like the Web, especially in the consensus-building process. Dan received bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin in 1990.
- Narciso Jaramillo
- Alan Ruttenberg
Alan Ruttenberg , software engineer
- Fabien Gandon
Full-time Researcher in Informatics and Computer Science in the ACACIA Research team of INRIA in the Research Center of Sophia-Antipolis (France). I have a Ph.D. in Computer Science and I am a Graduated Engineer in Applied Mathematics from INSA. My professional interests in informatics include: Semantic Web, Ontologies, Knowledge Engineering and Modelling, Mobility, Privacy, Context-Awareness, Web Services and Multi-Agents Systems. My main domain of application is corporate memory in . . .