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- Linus Torvalds
- Sir Tim Berners-Lee
- Donald Knuth
- Brenden Eich
- Solomon Hykes
- Mark Zuckerberg
- David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)
- Richard Stallman
- Bram Cohen
- James Gosling
- Bjarne Stroustrup
- John Carmack
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- created Linux in his dorm room at the University of Helsinki.
| key | value |
|---|---|
| Born | December 28, 1969 (age 45), Helsinki, Finland |
- He invented the hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP)
- Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) w3.org
- is the only entrant on this list to earn a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II.
- Is leading the Alliance for Affordable Internet, a non-profit backed by the likes of Google, Facebook, and Microsoft, that's trying to make broadband Internet access more affordable for everybody in the world.
| key | value |
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| @timberners_lee | |
| web | http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/ |
| city | Boston |
- the "father of the analysis of algorithms."
- Everything from the Facebook news feed algorithm to Amazon suggestions owes something to his work.
- Knuth is still writing his multi-volume work "The Art of Computer Programming,"
- He's also a professor emeritus at Stanford University.
| key | value |
|---|---|
| web | http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/ |
| book | The Art of Computer Science |
- "Instead of the trends, follow your own instincts."
- "Understand the low-level very well before writing about the high-level."
- "Learn something about everything, and everything about something."
- is the inventor of JavaScript
- Originator of Docker
- Docker actually started as a side-project of a company called dotCloud.
- famously created Facebook in a Harvard dorm room.
- personal philosophies around universal connectivity and social engagement
- created Ruby on Rails
- danish programmer
- earned him the 2005 "Hacker of the Year" award from Google.
- Has been fighting for software freedom since the eighties
- Stallman is perhaps best known for coming up with the concept of "copyleft," which is the idea that copyright law can be applied to make sure that software stays in the public domain — (eg. Docker, Linux, Hadoop, Spark, and many more.)
- Invented the BitTorrent protocol in 2001
- Invented Java while working at Sun Microsystems
- Became one of Oracle's biggest critics.
- Joined a startup called Liquid Robotics.
- Danish computer scientist Bjarne Stroustrup
- Invented the C++ programming language in 1978, taking the C language invented by the late Dennis Ritchie and adding new features that made it more usable by the masses.
- He's the College of Engineering Chair in Computer Science at Texas A&M University
- Visiting professor at Columbia University
- Works at Morgan Stanley.
- Co-founder of id Software
- Creator of Doom.
- Pioneered 3D graphics tricks and techniques that are still at work today.
- Carmack works at Facebook's Oculus VR as its CTO