| |  | Larry Wall (born September 27, 1954) is a programmer, linguist, and author, most widely known for his creation of the Perl programming language in... |  | Brad Templeton (born near Toronto in 1960), son of Charles Templeton and Sylvia Murphy, is a software engineer and entrepreneur. Templeton is... |  | 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 is a Canadian computer programmer and space enthusiast. He wrote 'regex', a widely-used Library for regular expressions, and co-wrote... |  | Eugene H. Spafford (born 1956) (known colloquially as "Spaf") is a professor of computer science at Purdue University and a leading computer... |  | John Gilmore is one of the founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Cypherpunks mailing list, and Cygnus Solutions. He created the alt.*... |  | Frankie Bones (real name Frank Mitchell) is an American techno and house music disc jockey from New York City. He is best known for bringing the... |  | Francis Muir (born April 27, 1926), also known as fido, ffoulkes, fideaux, or our beloved phydeaux, is a former Research Associate at the... |  | Tom Christiansen (also nicknamed "tchrist" or occasionally "thoth") is a well-known Unix developer and user especially known for his many... |  | Rich Salz is currently Chief Security Officer of Datapower, which was recently acquired by IBM. He has made numerous contributions to recent work... | |
