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...
Douglas Adams

Douglas Adams

male, deceased (2001)
Douglas Noël Adams was an English author, comic radio dramatist, and musician. He is best known as author of the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the G...

Henry Spencer

male
Henry Spencer is a Canadian computer programmer and space enthusiast. He wrote 'regex', a widely-used Library for regular expressions, and co-wrote...
Gene Spafford

Gene Spafford

male, 53 years old
Eugene H. Spafford (born 1956) (known colloquially as "Spaf") is a professor of computer science at Purdue University and a leading computer...
Brad Templeton

Brad Templeton

male, 49 years old
Brad Templeton (born near Toronto in 1960), son of Charles Templeton and Sylvia Murphy, is a software engineer and entrepreneur. Templeton is...
Mike Godwin

Mike Godwin

male, 53 years old
Mike Godwin is an American attorney and author. He was the first staff counsel of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the creator of the...
Jorn Barger

Jorn Barger

male, 56 years old
Jorn Barger (born 1953 in Yellow Springs, Ohio) is an American blogger, best known today as editor of "Robot Wisdom", an influential early weblog....
J. Michael Straczynski

J. Michael Straczynski

male, 55 years old
Joseph Michael Straczynski (born July 17, 1954) is an award-winning American writer/producer of television series, novels, short stories, comic...
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...

Jim Ellis

male, deceased (2001)
James Tice Ellis was a computer scientist best known as the co-creator of Usenet. Born in Nashville, Tennessee, Ellis grew up in Orlando, Florida....