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Great People In Software Engineering posted by Pavel Simakov on 2007-04-25 23:11:19 under Great People
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Authors of Famous Software Titles

Joshua Bloch - core Java
Adam Bosworth - Quattro Pro
Don Box - COM - SOAP
Tim Bray - XML
Dan Bricklin - VisiCalc
Paul Buchheit - GMail
John Carmack - Doom - Quake
Bram Cohen - BitTorrent
Dave Cutler - Windows NT
Doug Cutting - Lucene
James Duncan Davidson - Apache Tomcat - Apache Ant
Sean Egan - Gaim
Brad Fitzpatrick - LiveJournal
Justin Frankel - Winamp
Bill Joy - vi - TCP/IP - NFS
Paul Graham - Viaweb
James Gosling - Emacs
David Heinemeier Hansson's - Ruby on Rails
Mitch Kapor - Lotus 1-2-3
Gregor Kiczales - AspectJ
Gavin King - Hibernate
Klaus Knopper - Knoppix
Donald Knuth - TeX - algorithms
Max Levchin - PayPal
Tim Berners Lee - WWW - libwww
Douglas McIlroy - pipes and filters - diff
Pierre Omidyar - eBay
Ray Ozzie - Lotus Notes - Groove
Alexey Pazhitnov - Tetris
Dennis Ritchie - UNIX
Ronald Rivest - MD5
Joshua Schachter - del.icio.us
Richard Stallman - GNU - GPL
Alexander Stepanov - STL
Charles Simonyi - Hungarian notation
Ken Thompson - UNIX
Linus Torvalds - Linux
Heikki Tuuri - InnoDB
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Larry Wall - patch
Jimmy Wales - Wikipedia
Michael Widenius - MySQL
Dave Winer - RSS - XML-RPC
Jamie Zawinski - Netscape

Blogs

Authors of Programming Languages

Brad Cox - Objective-C
Brendan Eich - JavaScript
James Gosling - Java
Anders Hejlsberg - C# - Turbo Pascal - Delphi - J++
John McCarthy - Lisp
Alan Kay - Smalltalk - GUI
Brian Kernighan - AWK
Rasmus Lerdorf - PHP
Yukihiro Matsumoto - Ruby
Dennis Ritchie - C
Guido van Rossum - Python
Guy Steele, Jr - Scheme
Gerald Jay Sussman - Scheme
Bjarne Stroustrup - C++
Ken Thompson - B
Larry Wall - Perl
Niklaus Wirth - Pascal

Visionaries

Christopher Alexander
Grady Booch
Ralph Johnson
Martin Fowler
Richard Gabriel
Erich Gamma
Paul Graham
Gregor Hohpe
Ivar Jacobson
Robert C. Martin
Pater Norvig
Roger Sessions
Clay Shirky
Joel Spolsky
Guy Steele, Jr.
Dave Thomas
Ward Cunningham

Toronto Locals

David Crow
Scott W. Ambler
Joey deVilla
Chris & Jen Nolan
John Lam
Pete Forde & Ryan McMinn & Anthony Watts
Mishkin Berteig

Great Communities

http://www.hillside.net
http://c2.com
http://www.jetbrains.com
http://lambda-the-ultimate.org
http://www.codegeneration.net
http://www.imatix.com
http://www.adaptiveobjectmodel.com

People That Know Their Stuff Well

Mark Russinovitch
Jeremy Zawodny - MySQL - Yahoo! Finance
http://www.crockford.com
http://www.koders.com
http://www.docjar.com

Comment (1)

  • Comment by TSVenkat — April 28, 2008 @ 7:35 am

    This is Great work..You missed Djikstra, Minsky, Herbert Simon, Hoare, Ritchie, Thompson, Newell, Alan Kay.

    Keep up the great work..


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