This is a list of programmers notable for their contributions to software, either as original author or architect, or for later additions. A programmer or software developer is someone who programs computers, that is, one who writes computer software. ...

See also: Game programmer, List of computer scientists A game programmer is a software engineer who primarily develops computer or video games or related software (such as game development tools). ... . ...

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A

• Leonard Adleman - co-inventor of the RSA algorithm (the A in the name stands for Adleman), coined the term computer virus
• Alfred Aho - co-creator of AWK programming language (the A in the name stands for Aho), and main author of the famous Dragon book
• Paul Allen - Altair BASIC, Applesoft II BASIC, co-founded Microsoft
• Eric Allman - sendmail, syslog
• Marc Andreessen - co-creator of Mosaic, co-founder of Netscape
• Bill Atkinson - QuickDraw, HyperCard
• Richard Ayanbeku - EnigmaticSphinx

Leonard Adleman Leonard Adleman (born December 31, 1945) is a theoretical computer scientist and professor of computer science and molecular biology at the University of Southern California. ... In cryptography, RSA is an algorithm for public-key cryptography. ... Dr. Alfred V. Aho is a computer scientist. ... AWK is a general purpose computer language that is designed for processing text-based data, either in files or data streams. ... For other persons named Paul Allen, see Paul Allen (disambiguation). ... Altair BASIC, in its first incarnation, MITS 4K BASIC, was a true milestone in software history — the first programming language for the worlds first truly personal computer, the MITS Altair 8800. ... AppleSoft is a name used by Apple Computer for: Applesoft BASIC, a floating-point BASIC interpreter the division responsible for developing Mac OS from 1993 until about 1997. ... Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKSE: 4338) is a multinational computer technology corporation with global annual revenue of US$44. ... Eric Allman (born 1959) is a computer programmer. ... Sendmail is a mail transfer agent (MTA) that is a well known project of the open source, free software and Unix communities, which is distributed both as free software and proprietary software. ... syslog is a standard for forwarding log messages in an IP network. ... Plaque commemorating the creation of Mosaic web browser by Bina and Andreessen, new NCSA building, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. ... Mosaic was the first popular World Wide Web browser and Gopher client. ... Netscape Communications Corporation was the publisher of the Netscape Navigator web browser as well as many other internet and intranet client and server software products. ... Bill Atkinson worked at Apple Computer in the late 1970s and early 1980s. ... Two quickdraws. ... HyperCard was an application program from Apple Computer that was among the first successful hypermedia systems before the World Wide Web. ...

B

• John Backus - FORTRAN, BNF
• Richard Bartle - MUD, with Roy Trubshaw, the father of MUDs
• Donald Becker - Linux Ethernet drivers, Beowulf clustering
• Doug Bell - Dungeon Master series of computer games
• Tim Berners-Lee - inventor of the World Wide Web
• Brian Behlendorf - Apache
• Daniel J. Bernstein - djbdns, qmail
• Eric Bina - co-creator of Mosaic web browser
• Deane Blazie founder of Blazie Engineering (now part of Freedom Scientific), created technology for blind people who use braille
• Marc Blank - co-creator of Zork
• Joshua Bloch - core Java language designer, lead the Java collections framework project
• Daniel Bolstad - creator of Digital Ray 06-94 converter.
• Bert Bos - author of Argo web browser, co-author of Cascading Style Sheets
• David Bradley - coder on the IBM PC project team who wrote the Control-Alt-Delete keyboard handler, embedded in all PC-compatible BIOSes
• Andrew Braybrook - video games Paradroid and Uridium
• Larry Breed - co-developer of APL360
• Jack E. Bresenham - creator of Bresenham's line algorithm
• Dan Bricklin - co-creator of VisiCalc, the first personal spreadsheet program
• Richard Brodie - Microsoft Word
• Danielle Bunten Berry (Dani Bunten) - M.U.L.E., multiplayer video game

John Backus (born December 3, 1924) is an American computer scientist, notable as the inventor of the first high-level programming language (FORTRAN), the Backus-Naur form (BNF, the almost universally used notation to define formal language syntax), and the concept of Function-level programming. ... Fortran (also FORTRAN) is a statically typed, compiled, programming language originally developed in the 1950s and still heavily used for scientific computing and numerical computation half a century later. ... The Backus-Naur form (BNF) (also known as Backus normal form) is a metasyntax used to express context-free grammars: that is, a formal way to describe formal languages. ... Richard Allan Bartle (born January 10, 1960, in England) is a British writer and game researcher, best known for being the co-author of MUD, the first multi-user dungeon. ... This article is about a type of online computer game. ... Roy Trubshaw was a programmer at Essex University who coauthored, with Richard Bartle, the first known MUD on a DEC PDP-10. ... Donald Becker is a notable developer well known for writing many of the Ethernet drivers for the Linux operating system. ... This article is about operating systems that use the Linux kernel. ... Ethernet is a large, diverse family of frame-based computer networking technologies that operate at many speeds for local area networks (LANs). ... The Borg, a 52-node Beowulf cluster used by the McGill University pulsar group to search for pulsations from binary pulsars. ... Douglas Andrew Bell (born February 24, 1961) was a computer game developer from the mid-1980s to mid-1990s. ... Dungeon Master was the first 3D realtime action computer role-playing game. ... A computer game is a game composed of a computer-controlled virtual universe that players interact with in order to achieve a defined goal or set of goals. ... Sir Tim Berners-Lee Sir Tim (Timothy John) Berners-Lee, KBE (TimBL or TBL) (b. ... WWWs historical logo designed by Robert Cailliau The World Wide Web (commonly shortened to the Web) is a system of interlinked, hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. ... Brian Behlendorf (Born March 30, 1973) is one of the most respected leaders of the international open-source software movement. ... The Apache HTTP Server, commonly referred to simply as Apache, is a web server notable for playing a key role in the initial growth of the World Wide Web. ... Daniel Julius Bernstein (sometimes known simply as djb; born October 29, 1971) is a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, a mathematician, a cryptologist, and a programmer. ... djbdns is a simple and secure DNS implementation created by Daniel J. Bernstein because he was fed up with repeated BIND security holes. ... qmail is a mail transfer agent that runs on Unix. ... Eric Bina is the co-creator of Mosaic and the co-founder of Netscape. ... Mosaic was the first popular World Wide Web browser and Gopher client. ... Freedom Scientific is a corporation which researches, creates and sells technology to blind people, including software which uses voice synthesizers and the braille code. ... Braille code where the word (, French for first) can be read. ... Marc Blank is an American computer game designer and game programmer. ... Zork universe Zork games Zork Anthology Zork trilogy Zork I • Zork II • Zork III Beyond Zork • Zork Zero Enchanter trilogy Enchanter • Sorcerer • Spellbreaker Other games Wishbringer • Return to Zork Zork: Nemesis • Zork Grand Inquisitor Zork: The Undiscovered Underground Topics in Zork Encyclopedia Frobozzica Characters • Kings • Creatures Timeline • Magic • Calendar Zorkmid... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... JCF redirects here and can also stand for Jordan canonical form in Linear Algebra The Java collections framework is a coupled set of classes and interfaces that implement commonly reusable collection data structures. ... Bert Bos is a computer scientist. ... Argo was part of a project to make the Internet accessible to scholars in the Humanities at the University of Groningen. ... In web development, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a stylesheet language used to describe the presentation of a document written in a markup language. ... For other persons named David Bradley, see David Bradley (disambiguation). ... IBM PC (IBM 5150) with keyboard and green screen monochrome monitor (IBM 5151), running MS-DOS 5. ... For other uses, see Bios. ... Andrew Braybrook is one of the programmers who helped pioneer computer games. ... Paradroid on the C64 Paradroid is the name of a Commodore 64 computer game written by Andrew Braybrook and published by Hewson in 1985. ... Uridium is a sci-fi horizontal scrolling shoot-em-up for the Commodore 64 (and other 8-bit machines). ... Lawrence M. Breed was the 1973 recipient (with Richard Lathwell and Roger Moore) of the Grace Murray Hopper Award from the Association for Computing Machinery. ... APL (for A Programming Language) is an array programming language based on a notation invented in 1957 by Kenneth E. Iverson while at Harvard University. ... Jack E. Bresenham is a professor of computer science. ... The Bresenham line algorithm is an algorithm that determines which points in an n-dimensional raster should be plotted in order to form a close approximation to a straight line between two given points. ... Daniel S. Bricklin (born 16 July 1951) is the co-creator, with Bob Frankston, of the VisiCalc spreadsheet program. ... VisiCalc was the first spreadsheet program available for personal computers. ... Screenshot of a spreadsheet under OpenOffice A spreadsheet is a rectangular table (or grid) of information, often financial information. ... Richard Quiet Lion Brodie is the original author of Microsoft Word[1][2], was employee #77 at Microsoft and is now a professional poker player. ... Microsoft Word is a word processing application from Microsoft. ... Danielle Bunten Berry (February 19, 1949 - July 3, 1998), also known as Dani Bunten (born Daniel Paul Bunten), was an American game designer and programmer, known for the 1983 game M.U.L.E. (one of the first successful multiplayer games), and 1984s The Seven Cities of Gold. ... M.U.L.E. is a seminal multiplayer video game written in 1983 by Dan Bunten of Ozark Softscape. ...

C

• Steve Capps - co-creator of Macintosh and Newton
• John D. Carmack - first person shooters Doom, Quake
• Vinton Cerf - TCP/IP, NCP
• Steve Chamberlain - BFD, Cygwin
• Bram Cohen - BitTorrent protocol design and implementation
• Alain Colmerauer - Prolog
• Mike Cowlishaw - REXX and NetRexx, LEXX editor, image processing, decimal arithmetic packages
• Alan Cooper - Visual Basic
• Alan Cox - a developer of the Linux kernel
• Brad Cox - Objective-C
• Mark Crispin – inventor of IMAP, author of UW-IMAP, one of the reference implementations of IMAP4
• Ward Christensen - Wrote the first BBS (Bulletin Board System) system CBBS
• Pamela Crossley – creator of SIMPLE for academic management of web pages and related Unicode-capable applications for teaching and research
• William Crowther - Colossal Cave Adventure
• Ward Cunningham - inventor of the WikiWiki concept
• Dave Cutler - architect of Windows NT, VMS

Steve Capps is a computer programmer and engineer who is best known for his work on the Apple Macintosh computer and Newton OS during the 1980s and 1990s. ... The first Macintosh computer, introduced in 1984, upgraded to a 512K Fat Mac. The Macintosh or Mac, is a line of personal computers designed, developed, manufactured, and marketed by Apple Computer. ... The Apple Newton MessagePad 100 The Apple Newton, or simply Newton, is an early line of personal digital assistants developed and marketed by Apple Computer (now Apple Inc. ... John D. Carmack II (born August 20, 1970) is a widely recognized figure in the video game industry. ... A first-person shooter (FPS) is a computer or video game where the players on-screen view of the game world simulates that of the character, and there is some element of shooting involved. ... Doom (or DOOM)[1] is a 1993 computer game by id Software that is a landmark title in the first-person shooter genre. ... Zombies attacking the player at the starting of Episode 1, Mission 3: The Necropolis. ... Vinton G. Cerf (born June 23, 1943) is commonly referred to as the father of the Internet. During his tenure from 1976 to 1982 with the United States Department of Defenses Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Cerf played a key role leading the development of Internet and Internet-related... The Internet protocol suite is the set of communications protocols that implement the protocol stack on which the Internet runs. ... The Network Control Program (sometimes the abbreviation NCP is mistakenly expanded to Network Control Protocol, but this term is not found in the contemporary documentation) was the original protocol suite of the ARPANET. In NCP, the physical layer, the data link layer, and the network layer were all specified by... The Binary File Descriptor library, most commonly seen as just BFD, is the GNU Projects main mechanism for the portable manipulation of object files in a variety of formats. ... Cygwin (pronounced ) is a collection of free software tools originally developed by Cygnus Solutions to allow various versions of Microsoft Windows to act similar to a Unix system. ... Bram Cohen (born 1975) is an American computer programmer, best known as the author of the peer-to-peer (P2P) protocol BitTorrent, as well as the first file sharing program to use the protocol. ... This article is about the protocol. ... Professor Alain Colmerauer is the creator of the logic programming language Prolog for computers. ... Prolog is a logic programming language. ... Mike Cowlishaw is an IBM Fellow based at IBM UK’s Warwick location, a Visiting Professor at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Warwick, and an elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (roughly the equivalent of the NAE in the USA). ... REXX (REstructured eXtended eXecutor) is an interpreted programming language which was developed at IBM. It is a structured high-level programming language which was designed to be both easy to learn and easy to read. ... The Oxford English Dictionary print set The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is a dictionary published by the Oxford University Press (OUP), and is the most successful dictionary of the English language, (not to be confused with the one-volume Oxford Dictionary of English, formerly New Oxford Dictionary of English, of... For other uses, see Decimal (disambiguation). ... Alan Cooper, an advocate of interaction design, runs a design company and writes books about how to make software user interfaces more usable. ... This article is about the Visual Basic language shipping with Microsoft Visual Studio 6. ... Alan Cox at FOSS.IN/2005 Alan Cox (born 1968) is a computer programmer heavily involved in the development of the Linux kernel since its early days (1991). ... This article is about operating systems that use the Linux kernel. ... In computer science, the kernel is the fundamental part of an operating system. ... Brad Cox is a computer scientist and Ph. ... Objective-C, often referred to as ObjC or more seldomly as Objective C or Obj-C, is an object oriented programming language implemented as an extension to C. It is used primarily on Mac OS X and GNUstep, two environments based on the OpenStep standard, and is the primary language... Mark Crispin (born 1956) is a staff member at the University of Washington, noted as the inventor of IMAP. He is the author or co-author of numerous RFCs; and is the principal author of UW IMAP, one of the reference implementations of the IMAP4rev1 protocol described in RFC 3501. ... The Internet Message Access Protocol (commonly known as IMAP, and previously called Interactive Mail Access Protocol) is an application layer Internet protocol used for accessing email on a remote server from a local client. ... The Internet Message Access Protocol (commonly known as IMAP, and previously called Interactive Mail Access Protocol) is an application layer Internet protocol used for accessing email on a remote server from a local client. ... Ward Christensen Ward Christensen, born in West Bend, Wisconsin, was the founder of the CBBS bulletin board, the first BBS ever brought online. ... Pamela Kyle Crossley, a leading historian of modern China, is author of Orphan Warriors: Three Manchu Generations and the End of the Qing World (Princeton University Press, 1990); The Manchus (Blackwells Publishers, 1997); A Translucent Mirror: History and Identity in Qing Imperial Ideology (University of California Press, 1999). ... William (Willie or Will) Crowther is a computer programmer and caver. ... Oh Yes, Hes Ward Cunningham! Howard Cunningham redirects here. ... Look up Wiki in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... David Neil Cutler, Sr. ... Windows NT (New Technology) is a family of operating systems produced by Microsoft, the first version of which was released in July 1993. ... OpenVMS V7. ...

D - F

• Ole-Johan Dahl - co-creator of SIMULA.
• Hugh Daniel - Lead programmer (and mis-management) of the FreeS/Wan project and a helper of the OpenZaurus project
• James Duncan Davidson - creator of Tomcat, now part of the Jakarta Project
• L. Peter Deutsch - Ghostscript, Assembler for PDP-1, XDS-940 timesharing system, QED original co-author
• Edsger Dijkstra - contributions to ALGOL, Dijkstra's algorithm, Go To Statement Considered Harmful
• Matt Dillon, programmer of various software including DICE and DragonflyBSD
• Les Earnest - author of the finger program
• Brendan Eich - creator of JavaScript
• A. A. El Haddi -- co-author of Constant Replicator for Linux/Windows used in NASA's return to flight program
• Leonard Egesa -- Founded Magezi Solutions, expert web application developer and mathematician. championing ICT in East Africa
• Larry Ellison - co-creator of Oracle database, co-founder of Oracle Corporation
• Marc Ewing - creator of Red Hat Linux
• Stuart Feldman - creator of make, author of Fortran 77 compiler, part of original group that created Unix
• Jay Fenlason - Hack, GAS
• David Filo - co-creator of Yahoo!
• Andrew Fluegelman - author PC-Talk communications software; he is considered one of the fathers of shareware
• Martin Fowler
• Brian Fox - creator of Bash, Readline, GNU Finger, Meta-HTML
• Peter Fraser - FRED text editor
• Justin Frankel - Creator of Winamp
• Jim Fruchterman founder of Arkenstone (now part of Freedom Scientific) and Benetech, created scanners for blind people
• Dan Farmer Creator of COPS and SATAN Security Scanners

Professor emeritus Ole-Johan Dahl (October 12, 1931 – June 29, 2002) was a Norwegian computer scientist and is considered to be one of the fathers of Simula and object-oriented programming along with Kristen Nygaard. ... Simula is a name for two programming languages, Simula I and Simula 67, developed in the 1960s at the Norwegian Computing Center in Oslo, by Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard. ... Hugh Daniel is a computer engineer. ... The Free Secure Wide-Area Networking project was a free software project, which implemented a reference version of IPSEC for the Linux and other UNIX-like operating systems. ... The OpenZaurus project was created as an alternative image for the Sharp Zaurus personal mobile tool. ... James Duncan Davidson, born July 29th, 1970 in Lubbock Texas, raised in Oklahoma and Texas. ... Tomcat Logo Tomcat functions as a servlet container developed at the Apache Software Foundation. ... The Jakarta Project creates and maintains open source software for the Java platform. ... L. Peter Deutsch is the founder of Aladdin Enterprises and creator of Ghostscript, a free software PostScript interpreter. ... Ghostscript is a suite of software based on an interpreter for Adobe Systems PostScript and Portable Document Format (PDF) page description languages. ... See the terminology section, below, regarding inconsistent use of the terms assembly and assembler. ... PDP-1 at the Computer History Museum. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Alternate uses: see Timesharing Time-sharing is an approach to interactive computing in which a single computer is used to provide apparently simultaneous interactive general-purpose computing to multiple users by sharing processor time. ... QED is a line-oriented computer text editor. ... Edsger Dijkstra Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (Rotterdam, May 11, 1930 – Nuenen, August 6, 2002; IPA: ) was a Dutch computer scientist. ... ALGOL (short for ALGOrithmic Language) is a programming language originally developed in the mid 1950s which became the de facto standard way to report algorithms in print for almost the next 30 years. ... Dijkstras algorithm, named after its discoverer, Dutch computer scientist Edsger Dijkstra, is a greedy algorithm that solves the single-source shortest path problem for a directed graph with non negative edge weights. ... GOTO is a statement found in many computer programming languages. ... Matt Dillon is a computer scientist, born July 1, 1966 in the Bay Area and living in Berkeley, California. ... The DragonFly BSD Logo In computing, the DragonFly BSD operating system is a fork of FreeBSD. Matt Dillon, a long-time FreeBSD and Amiga developer, started work on DragonFly BSD in June 2003 and announced it on the FreeBSD mailing lists on 16 July 2003. ... Lester Donald Earnest was born in the United States on December 17, 1930. ... In computer networking, the Name/Finger protocol and the Finger user information protocol are simple network protocols for the exchange of human-oriented status and user information. ... Brendan Eich Brendan Eich (born 1964) is a computer programmer and creator of the JavaScript programming language. ... JavaScript is a scripting language most often used for client-side web development. ... Lawrence Joseph Ellison (born August 17, 1944) is the co-founder and CEO of Oracle Corporation, a major database software company. ... The term Oracle database may refer either to the database management system (DBMS) software released by Oracle Corporation as Oracle RDBMS, or to any of the individual databases managed by such software. ... Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) is one of the major companies developing database management systems (DBMS), tools for database development, middle-tier software, enterprise resource planning software (ERP), customer relationship management software (CRM) and supply chain management (SCM) software. ... Marc Ewing is the enterprising creator and originator of the Red Hat brand of software, most notably the Red Hat range of Linux operating system distributions. ... Red Hat Linux was a popular Linux distribution assembled by Red Hat until the early 2000s, when it was discontinued. ... Stuart Feldman is best known as the creator of the make computer software for UNIX systems. ... In computer programming, make is a utility for automatically building large applications. ... Fortran (also FORTRAN) is a statically typed, compiled, programming language originally developed in the 1950s and still heavily used for scientific computing and numerical computation half a century later. ... Filiation of Unix and Unix-like systems Unix (officially trademarked as UNIX®, sometimes also written as or ® with small caps) is a computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Douglas McIlroy. ... Hack is a roguelike computer game originally written in 1982 by Jay Fenlason with the assistance of Kenny Woodland, Mike Thome, and Jon Payne. ... Gas, commanded as as when typed from the shell, is the GNU assembler. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Yahoo redirects here. ... Andrew Cardoza Fluegelman (born November 27, 1943--presumably died July 6, 1985) was a programmer and attorney best known as the inventor of what is now known as the shareware business model for software marketing. ... PC-Talk was one of the first three widely popular software products sold via the marketing method that became known as shareware. ... Look up shareware in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Martin Fowler is a famous author and international speaker on software architecture, specializing in object-oriented analysis and design, UML, Patterns, and agile software development methodologies, including Extreme Programming. ... Brian Fox is a free software programmer. ... This article is about the Unix shell. ... GNU readline is a software library created and maintained by the GNU project. ... GNU (pronounced ) is a computer operating system composed entirely of free software. ... In computer networking, the Name/Finger protocol and the Finger user information protocol are simple network protocols for the exchange of human-oriented status and user information. ... FRED is a re-implementation of the famous Bell Labs QED line-oriented text editor. ... Justin Frankel is an American computer programmer best known for his work on the Winamp media player application and for inventing the Gnutella peer-to-peer system. ... Winamp is a proprietary media player written by Nullsoft, now a subsidiary of Time Warner. ... Freedom Scientific is a corporation which researches, creates and sells technology to blind people, including software which uses voice synthesizers and the braille code. ... Benetech was founded in 2000 by high technology entrepreneur Jim Fruchterman in Palo Alto, California. ... This article is about the visual condition. ... Dan Farmer in 1996 Dan Farmer is a computer security researcher. ... Look up cop in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This article is about the concept of Satan. ...

G

• Elon Gasper - co-founded Bright Star Technology, patented realistic facial movements for in-game speech. HyperAnimator, Alphabet Blocks, etc.
• Bill Gates - Altair BASIC, co-founded Microsoft
• John Gilmore - GDB
• Adele Goldberg - co-inventor of Smalltalk
• James Gosling - Java, Gosling Emacs, NeWS
• Bill Gosper - Macsyma, Lisp machine, hashlife, helped Donald Knuth on Vol.2 of The Art of Computer Programming (Semi-numerical algorithms)
• Andrew Gower - Various Java games, RuneScape Classic, RuneScape, co-founded Jagex
• Paul Gower - Various Java games, RuneScape Classic, RuneScape, co-founded Jagex
• icculus.org - Lokigames, ioquake3, MojoSetup, etc
• Paul Graham - Yahoo! Store, On Lisp, ANSI Common Lisp
• John Graham-Cumming - author of POPFile, a Bayesian filter-based e-mail classifier
• Richard Greenblatt - Lisp machine, Incompatible Timesharing System, MacHack
• Igor Grešovnik - Inverse, IOptLib
• Ralph Griswold - co-creator of SNOBOL and creator of Icon programming language.
• Andi Gutmans - co-creator of PHP programming language

Elon James Gasper (born 1952) is a Senior VP at VizX Labs and co-founder of 1980s era software company BrightStar Technology. ... Bright Star Technology, Inc. ... For other persons named Bill Gates, see Bill Gates (disambiguation). ... Altair BASIC, in its first incarnation, MITS 4K BASIC, was a true milestone in software history — the first programming language for the worlds first truly personal computer, the MITS Altair 8800. ... Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKSE: 4338) is a multinational computer technology corporation with global annual revenue of US$44. ... John Gilmore John Gilmore is one of the founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Cypherpunks mailing list, and Cygnus Solutions. ... The GNU Debugger, usually called just GDB, is the standard debugger for the GNU software system. ... Dr. Adele Goldberg is a computer scientist who wrote or co-wrote books on the programming language Smalltalk-80. ... For other uses, see Small talk. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Java language redirects here. ... Gosling Emacs (often seen shortened to Gosmacs) was an Emacs implementation written in 1981 by James Gosling in C; it was the first Emacs to run under Unix. ... For other uses, see News (disambiguation). ... R. William Gosper, Jr. ... MACSYMA Reference Manual, MIT, 1977 Macsyma is a computer algebra system that was originally developed from 1967 to 1982 at MIT as part of Project MAC and later marketed commercially. ... The original Lisp machine built by Greenblatt and Knight Lisp machines were general-purpose computers designed (usually through hardware support) to efficiently run Lisp as their main software language. ... Hashlife is an algorithm for computing the long-term fate of a given starting configuration in Conways Game of Life. ... Donald Ervin Knuth ( or Ka-NOOTH[1], Chinese: [2]) (b. ... Cover of books The Art of Computer Programming[1] is a comprehensive monograph written by Donald Knuth which covers many kinds of programming algorithms and their analysis. ... Andrew Christopher Gower[1] was born in 1979 and is the lead developer[2] and co-founder of Jagex Ltd, a Java-based game distributor and creator. ... Person fighting a highwayman in Runescape Classic Screenshot of the Runescape 2 RuneScape is 3D Java based massive multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), launched by Jagex Ltd. ... RuneScape is a Java-based MMORPG operated by Jagex Ltd. ... Jagex Ltd. ... This article is being considered for deletion for the 2nd time in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ... Person fighting a highwayman in Runescape Classic Screenshot of the Runescape 2 RuneScape is 3D Java based massive multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), launched by Jagex Ltd. ... RuneScape is a Java-based MMORPG operated by Jagex Ltd. ... Jagex Ltd. ... Ryan C. Gordon (also known as icculus) is a former Loki Software employee, now responsible for , which hosts many Loki Software projects, as well new projects by himself and others. ... Loki Games was a software firm that ported several computer games from Microsoft Windows to Linux. ... Paul Graham For Paul Graham the photographer, see Paul Graham (photographer). ... Yahoo! Inc. ... On Lisp: Advanced Techniques for Common Lisp is a book by Paul Graham on macro programming in Common Lisp. ... Common Lisp, commonly abbreviated CL, is a dialect of the Lisp programming language, standardised by ANSI X3. ... John Graham-Cumming John Graham-Cumming is a British programmer best known for the open source POPFile email filtering program, although he maintains a number of other open source and proprietary programs written primarily in Perl, C and C++. He was one of the founding speakers at the annual Spam... POPFile is a free, open source, cross-platform mail filter written in Perl by John Graham-Cumming. ... Bayesian filtering is the process of using Bayesian statistical methods to classify documents into categories. ... Richard D. Greenblatt is an American programmer. ... The original Lisp machine built by Greenblatt and Knight Lisp machines were general-purpose computers designed (usually through hardware support) to efficiently run Lisp as their main software language. ... ITS, the Incompatible Timesharing System, was an early, revolutionary, and influential MIT time-sharing operating system; it was developed principally by the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT, with some help from Project MAC. ITS development was initiated in the late 1960s by those (the majority of the MIT AI Lab... A chess board. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Inverse is a general purpose computer program for solving inverse and optimization problems. ... IOptLib (Investigative Optimization Library) is a numerical library for development and testing of optimization algorithms. ... Ralph Griswold is Regents Professor Emeritus in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Arizona, having retired in 1995. ... SNOBOL (StriNg Oriented symBOlic Language) is a computer programming language developed between 1962 and 1967 at AT&T Bell Laboratories by David J. Farber, Ralph E. Griswold and Ivan P. Polonsky. ... Icon is a very high-level programming language featuring goal directed execution and excellent facilities for managing strings and textual patterns. ... Andi Gutmans is an Israeli programmer, PHP developer and co-founder of Zend Technologies. ... For other uses, see PHP (disambiguation). ...

H

• Dušan Hamar - Author of SphereXP
• Douglas Richard Hanks, Jr. - creator of Sudosh and Enterprise Audit Shell (EAS)
• Brian Harvey - UCB Logo, see Logo programming language
• Cecil Hastings - wrote the classic Approximations for Digital Computers 1950s formulas for sin, cos, etc.
• David Heinemeier Hansson - created the Ruby on Rails framework for developing web applications.
• Rebecca Heineman - Author of Bard's Tale III: Thief of Fate and Dragon Wars.
• Anders Hejlsberg - Turbo Pascal, Borland Delphi, C#
• Ted Henter founder of Henter-Joyce (now part of Freedom Scientific) creator of Jaws, screen reader software for blind people
• Andy Hertzfeld - co-creator of Macintosh, co-founder of General Magic, co-founder of Eazel
• C. A. R. Hoare - first implementation of quicksort, Algol 60 compiler, Communicating sequential processes
• James Holmes - Committer on Struts project, create of Struts Console
• Grace Hopper - Navy Mark I computer, FLOW-MATIC (which heavily influenced COBOL)
• Dave Hyatt - co-author of Mozilla Firefox

sudosh is a filter and can be used as a login shell. ... Logo turtle graphic The Logo programming language is a functional programming language. ... The RAND Corporation is a nonprofit global policy think tank first formed to offer research and analysis to the United States armed forces. ... The 1950s decade refers to the years 1950 to 1959 inclusive. ... Sine redirects here. ... David Heinemeier Hansson David Heinemeier Hansson (born October 15, 1979[1] in Copenhagen) is a Danish programmer and the creator of the popular Ruby on Rails web development framework and the Instiki wikis. ... Ruby on Rails is a free web application framework that aims to increase the speed and ease with which database-driven web sites can be created and offers skeleton code frameworks (scaffolding) from the outset. ... Rebecca Ann Heineman, formerly known as Bill Heineman, is a computer game programmer. ... The Bards Tale III: Thief of Fate is a computer fantasy role-playing game created by Interplay Productions in 1988. ... Dragon Wars was a computer fantasy role-playing game designed by Interplay Productions and distributed by Activision. ... Anders Hejlsberg (born December 1960[1]) is a prominent Danish software engineer who co-designed several popular and commercially successful programming languages and development tools. ... Turbo Pascal 3. ... Delphi has been released in many versions, including older versions which have been released in magazines for non-profit application use For the language Borland Delphi is programmed in, see Object Pascal. ... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ... Ted Henter is an American computer programmer. ... Freedom Scientific is a corporation which researches, creates and sells technology to blind people, including software which uses voice synthesizers and the braille code. ... Job Access with Speech (better known as JAWS) is a screen reader from Freedom ScientificBLV Group, LLC] for the visually impaired. ... A screen reader is a software application that attempts to identify and interpret what is being displayed on the screen. ... Andy Hertzfeld (born April 6, 1953), was a key member of the original Apple Macintosh development team, and some would consider him a pioneer among software engineers. ... The first Macintosh computer, introduced in 1984, upgraded to a 512K Fat Mac. The Macintosh or Mac, is a line of personal computers designed, developed, manufactured, and marketed by Apple Computer. ... General Magic was a company co-founded by Bill Atkinson, Andy Hertzfeld and Marc Porat that developed new kind of handheld communications device they called a personal intelligent communicator, which was a PDA precursor that stressed communications. ... Eazel was a computer software company based in Mountain View, California. ... Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare (Tony Hoare or C.A.R. Hoare, born January 11, 1934) is a British computer scientist, probably best known for the development of Quicksort, the worlds most widely used sorting algorithm, in 1960. ... Q sort redirects here. ... ALGOL (short for ALGOrithmic Language) is a programming language originally developed in the mid 1950s which became the de facto standard way to report algorithms in print for almost the next 30 years. ... In computer science, Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) is a formal language for describing patterns of interaction in concurrent systems. ... James Holmes, a committer on the Struts project, is the creator of the most popular Struts tool, the Struts Console. ... Jakarta Struts is an open-source framework for developing J2EE web applications. ... Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper (December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992) was an American computer scientist and United States Navy officer. ... FLOW-MATIC, Originally B-0, and possibly the first English-like Data Processing language. ... COBOL (pronounced //) is a Third-generation programming language, and one of the oldest programming languages still in active use. ... Dave Hyatt is an American software developer currently employed by Apple Computer (started July 15, 2002), where he is part of the development team responsible for the Safari web browser and WebKit framework. ... Firefox redirects here. ...

I - J

• Miguel de Icaza - GNOME project leader, initiator of the Mono project
• Dan Ingalls - co-inventor of Smalltalk, Bitblt, and Pop-up Menus
• Geir Ivarsøy - co-creator of Opera Web browser
• Ken Iverson - APL, J
• Toru Iwatani - creator of Pac-Man
• Bo Jangeborg - ZX Spectrum games
• Paul Jardetzky - author of the server program for the first webcam
• Stephen C. Johnson - yacc
• Lynne Jolitz - 386BSD
• William Jolitz - 386BSD
• Bill Joy - BSD, vi; co-founded Sun Microsystems
• Robert K. Jung - creator of ARJ

Miguel de Icaza (born c. ... This article is about the mythical creature. ... Mono is a project led by Novell (formerly by Ximian) to create an Ecma standard compliant . ... Dan Ingalls is one of the creators of Smalltalk. ... For other uses, see Small talk. ... Bit blit (bitblt, blitting etc. ... Geir Ivarsøy (June 27, 1957 – March 9, 2006) was the lead programmer at Opera Software. ... Opera is a cross-platform web browser and Internet suite which handles common Internet-related tasks including visiting web sites, sending and receiving e-mail messages, managing contacts, chatting online, viewing Widgets, downloading BitTorrents, and reading Newsfeeds. ... Kenneth Eugene Iverson (17 December 1920, Camrose, Alberta, Canada – 19 October 2004, Toronto, Ontario, Canada) was a computer scientist most notable for developing the APL programming language in 1957. ... APL (for A Programming Language) is an array programming language based on a notation invented in 1957 by Kenneth E. Iverson while at Harvard University. ... The J programming language, developed in the early 1990s by Ken Iverson and Roger Hui, is a synthesis of APL (also by Iverson) and the FP and FL functional programming languages created by John Backus (of FORTRAN, ALGOL, and BNF fame). ... Toru Iwatani Toru Iwatani (born January 25, 1955) was a video game designer in the 1980s, and created one of the most popular arcade games of all time, Pac-Man. ... Pac-Man is an arcade game developed by Namco and licensed for distribution by Midway Games in 1979. ... Bo Jangeborg is a Swedish computer programmer. ... The ZX Spectrum is an 8-bit personal home computer released in the United Kingdom in 1982 by Sinclair Research Ltd. ... Paul Jardetzky was instrumental in the creation of the Trojan room coffee pot. ... The Trojan Room coffee pot was the inspiration for the worlds first webcam. ... Stephen Curtis Johnson spent nearly 20 years at Bell Labs and AT&T, where he wrote Yacc, Lint, and the Portable C Compiler. ... yacc is a computer program that serves as the standard parser generator on Unix systems. ... Lynne Greer Jolitz (B.S Physics, University of California at Berkeley) has been a founder of startups in Silicon Valley ranging from workstations to Internet multimedia. ... 386BSD, also known as JOLIX, is a free BSD operating system for the Intel 80386. ... William Frederick(Bill) Jolitz (born 1957), commonly known as Bill Jolitz, co-wrote 386BSD in 1989 along with Lynne Jolitz. ... 386BSD, also known as JOLIX, is a free BSD operating system for the Intel 80386. ... Bill Joy William Nelson Joy (born Nov 8, 1954), commonly known as Bill Joy, is an American computer scientist. ... BSD redirects here. ... vi editing a temporary, empty file. ... Sun Microsystems, Inc. ... ARJ is a tool for creating compressed file archives. ... ARJ is a tool for creating compressed file archives. ...

K

• Ted Kaehler - co-inventor of Smalltalk
• Pavel Kanzelsberger - creator of Pixel image editor
• Mitch Kapor - Lotus 1-2-3, founded Lotus Development Corporation
• Phil Katz - creator of the ZIP file format, author of PKZIP
• Alan Kay - Smalltalk, Dynabook, Object-oriented programming, Squeak
• Mel Kaye [1], a real programmer
• Ryan Kenward - Founder, programmer of the MUD Realm of Shadows.
• Stan Kelly-Bootle - Manchester Mark I, The Devil's DP Dictionary
• Brian Kernighan - co-creator of AWK programming language (the K in the name stands for Kernighan), author of ditroff text-formatting tool
• Gary Kildall - CP/M
• Tom Knight - Incompatible Timesharing System
• Jim Knopf - aka Jim Button, author PC-File flatfile database; he is considered one of the fathers of shareware
• Donald E. Knuth - TeX, CWEB, Metafont, The Art of Computer Programming, Concrete Mathematics

For other uses, see Small talk. ... Pixel image editor (formerly known as Pixel32) is an Adobe Photoshop-like image editor written by Pavel Kanzelsberger. ... Mitch Kapor Mitch Kapor (center) with Bill Gates and Fred Gibbons, during their time working on developing applications for the Apple Macintosh, 1984 Mitchell David Kapor (born 1950) is the founder of Lotus Development Corporation and the designer of Lotus 1-2-3, the killer application often credited with making... Lotus 1-2-3 is a spreadsheet program from Lotus Software (now part of IBM). ... Lotus Software (called Lotus Development Corporation before its acquisition by IBM) is an American software company headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... Phil Katz, shown in 1994, holds a computer disk containing compression software made by his company, PKWare Inc. ... The ZIP file format is the most widely-used compressed file format in the IBM PC world. ... PKZIP is an archiving tool originally written by the late Phil Katz, and marketed by his company PKWARE, Inc. ... Alan Curtis Kay (born May 17, 1940) is an American computer scientist, known for his early pioneering work on object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user interface design. ... For other uses, see Small talk. ... Dynabook mockup The Dynabook was a conceptual system proposed by Xerox PARC in the late-1960s and early-1970s. ... Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a programming paradigm that uses objects and their interactions to design applications and computer programs. ... Screenshot of the Squeak VM running under X11 on Kubuntu Linux. ... In programming folklore Mel Kaye is an archetypical Real Programmer. ... The term Real Programmer is a sarcastic, sometimes pejorative term used by computer programmers to describe an archetypical, hardcore programmer. ... This article is about a type of online computer game. ... Stan Kelly-Bootle (born 1929, in Liverpool), notable for achieving the first postgraduate degree in computer science (1954), is a prolific author (nine books, numerous magazine articles), and songwriter (his folk songs have been performed by artists such as Pete Seeger). ... Manchester Mark 1 was the worlds first stored program computer, which made its first successful run of a program on 21st June 1948 The Manchester Mark I was one of the earliest electronic computers, built at the University of Manchester in England, in 1949. ... Brian Wilson Kernighan (IPA pronunciation: , the g is silent), (born 1942 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a computer scientist who worked at Bell Labs alongside Unix creators Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie and contributed greatly to Unix and its school of thought. ... AWK is a general purpose computer language that is designed for processing text-based data, either in files or data streams. ... Ditroff is the device independent version of the troff text formatter. ... Gary Arlen Kildall (May 19, 1942 – July 11, 1994) was an early American microcomputer entrepreneur who created the CP/M operating system and founded Digital Research, Inc. ... CP/M is an operating system originally created for Intel 8080/85 based microcomputers by Gary Kildall of Digital Research, Inc. ... Tom Knight is a senior research scientist in the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and the MIT EECS department. ... ITS, the Incompatible Timesharing System, was an early, revolutionary, and influential MIT time-sharing operating system; it was developed principally by the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT, with some help from Project MAC. ITS development was initiated in the late 1960s by those (the majority of the MIT AI Lab... Jim Knopf, aka Jim Button (Knopf meaning button in German), is considered by many to be one of the fathers of shareware (so named by fellow software veteran Peter Norton). ... ĔPC-File was a flat file database computer application most often run on DOS. It was one of the first of three widely popular software products sold via the marketing method that became known as shareware. ... Look up shareware in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Donald Knuth Donald Ervin Knuth (born January 10, 1938) is a renowned computer scientist and Professor Emeritus at Stanford University. ... TeX (IPA: as in Greek, often in English; written with a lowercase e in imitation of the logo) is a typesetting system created by Donald Knuth. ... CWEB is a computer programming system created by Donald Knuth and Silvio Levy as a followup to Knuths WEB literate programming system, using the C programming language instead of Pascal. ... METAFONT is a programming language used to define vector fonts. ... Cover of books The Art of Computer Programming[1] is a comprehensive monograph written by Donald Knuth which covers many kinds of programming algorithms and their analysis. ... Concrete Mathematics by Ronald L. Graham, Donald E. Knuth and Oren Patashnik is a textbook that provides its readers with mathematical background that can be especially useful in computer science. ...

L

• Leslie Lamport - LaTeX
• Butler Lampson - QED original co-author
• Tom Lane - primary author of libjpeg, major developer of PostgreSQL
• Sam Lantinga - creator of SDL
• Dick Lathwell - co-developer of APL360
• Greg Lehey - FreeBSD and NetBSD developer, originator of the Vinum Volume Manager
• Rasmus Lerdorf - original creator of PHP
• Michael Lesk - Lex
• Graziano Liberati - co-author of ZNF
• Håkon Wium Lie - co-author of Cascading Style Sheets
• Robert Love - Linux kernel developer
• Ada Lovelace - First programmer (of Babbage Machines)

Leslie Lamport Dr. Leslie Lamport (born 1941) is an American computer scientist. ... This article is about the typesetting system. ... Butler W. Lampson is a computer scientist, considered to be one of the most significant in the history of the field. ... QED is a line-oriented computer text editor. ... Tom Lane is a software developer based in the United States of America. ... libjpeg is a library created by the Independent JPEG Group [1] which contain functions to manipulate JPEG images. ... PostgreSQL is a free software object-relational database management system (ORDBMS), released under a BSD-style license. ... Sam Oscar Lantinga is the creator of the Simple DirectMedia Layer which is a very popular open source game programming library. ... Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) is a cross-platform multimedia free software library written in C that creates an abstraction over various platforms graphics, sound, and input APIs, allowing a developer to write a computer game or other multimedia application once and run it on many operating systems including GNU/Linux... Richard H. Lathwell was the 1973 recipient (with Larry Breed and Roger Moore) of the Grace Murray Hopper Award from the Association for Computing Machinery. ... APL (for A Programming Language) is an array programming language based on a notation invented in 1957 by Kenneth E. Iverson while at Harvard University. ... FreeBSD is a Unix-like free operating system descended from AT&T UNIX via the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) branch through the 386BSD and 4. ... NetBSD is a freely redistributable, open source version of the Unix-like BSD computer operating system. ... Rasmus Lerdorf (born November 22, 1968 in Qeqertarsuaq, Greenland) is a Danish-Canadian programmer and the author of the first version of the PHP web programming language. ... For other uses, see PHP (disambiguation). ... Mike Lesk is an American computer programmer. ... lex is a program that generates lexical analyzers (scanners or lexers). Lex is commonly used with the yacc parser generator. ... Graziano Liberati, known as FreeJay, was born on September 23th 1980 in Atri (Italy). ... ZNF is an open source framework for developing PHP5 web applications. ... Håkon Wium Lie (born 1965 in Norway) is, as of 2004, presently Chief Technology Officer of Opera Software, where he has worked since 1999. ... In web development, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a stylesheet language used to describe the presentation of a document written in a markup language. ... Robert Love with a piñata Robert Matthew Love (born September 25, 1981) is an author, speaker, and open source hacker. ... The Linux kernel is a Unix-like operating system kernel. ... Ada Lovelace Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (December 10, 1815 – November 27, 1852), born Augusta Ada Byron, is mainly known for having written a description of Charles Babbages early mechanical general-purpose computer, the analytical engine. ...

M

• Raphael Manfredi - contributions to Perl, software architect and maintainer of gtk-gnutella
• Yukihiro Matsumoto - Ruby
• John McCarthy - Lisp
• Craig McClanahan - original author of Jakarta Struts, architect of Tomcat Catalina servlet container
• Daniel D. McCracken - professor at City College and author of Guide to Fortran Programming (1957)
• Douglas McIlroy - pipes and filters, concept of software componentry, Unix tools (spell, diff, sort, join, graph, speak, tr, etc.)
• Marshall Kirk McKusick - BSD
• Bertrand Meyer - Eiffel, Object-oriented Software Construction, Design by contract
• Bob Miner - co-creator of Oracle database, co-founder of Oracle Corporation
• Jeff Minter - Psychedelic, and often llama-related video games
• Lou Montulli - creator of Lynx browser, cookies, the blink tag, server push and client pull, HTTP proxying, HTTP over SSL, browser integration with animated GIFs, founding member of HTML working group at W3C
• Bram Moolenaar - author of text-editor Vim
• David Moon - Maclisp, ZetaLisp
• Charles H. Moore - inventor of the Forth programming language
• Roger Moore - co-developer of APL360, creator of IPSANET, co-founder of I.P. Sharp Associates
• Urban Müller - Brainfuck language
• Mike Muuss - author of ping, network tool to detect hosts

Raphaël Manfredi has been the author of many open-source programs since 1990. ... Wikibooks has a book on the topic of Perl Programming Perl is a dynamic programming language created by Larry Wall and first released in 1987. ... Gtk-gnutella 0. ... Yukihiro Matsumoto , a. ... Ruby is a reflective, object-oriented programming language. ... John McCarthy (born September 4, 1927, in Boston, Massachusetts, sometimes known affectionately as Uncle John McCarthy), is a prominent computer scientist who received the Turing Award in 1971 for his major contributions to the field of Artificial Intelligence. ... Lisp is a family of computer programming languages with a long history and a distinctive fully-parenthesized syntax. ... Craig R. McClanahan is a programmer and original author of the Jakarta Struts framework for building web applications. ... Apache Struts (formerly under the Apache Jakarta project, Struts is now a top level project) is an open-source framework for developing J2EE web applications. ... In computing, Catalina is the name of the Servlet container of Jakarta Tomcat since version 4. ... Daniel D. McCracken, Professor of Computer Sciences at City College, City University of New York, is the author of over two dozen textbooks on computer programming. ... “City College” redirects here. ... Fortran (previously FORTRAN[1]) is a general-purpose[2], procedural,[3] imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing. ... Portrait of Douglas McIlroy taken at the NATO conference in Garmisch 1968, courtesy of Brian Randell. ... In software engineering, a pipeline consisting of chain of processes or other data processing entities, arranged so that the output of each element of the chain is the input of the of the next one. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Component-based software engineering. ... Filiation of Unix and Unix-like systems Unix (officially trademarked as UNIX®, sometimes also written as or ® with small caps) is a computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Douglas McIlroy. ... Marshall Kirk McKusick (b. ... BSD redirects here. ... Bertrand Meyer (born 1950 in France) developed the Eiffel programming language, and is an author, academic and consultant in the field of computer languages. ... Eiffel is an ISO-standardized object-oriented programming language designed for extensibility, reusability, reliability and programmer productivity. ... Object Oriented Design is the concept that forces programmers to plan out their code in order to have a better flowing program. ... Design by contract, DBC or Programming by contract is a methodology for designing computer software. ... If Larry Ellison was the brain behind Oracle, Bob Miner was its heart. ... The term Oracle database may refer either to the database management system (DBMS) software released by Oracle Corporation as Oracle RDBMS, or to any of the individual databases managed by such software. ... Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) is one of the major companies developing database management systems (DBMS), tools for database development, middle-tier software, enterprise resource planning software (ERP), customer relationship management software (CRM) and supply chain management (SCM) software. ... Jeff Minter at Assembly 2004 Jeff Yak Minter (born in Reading, April 22, 1962) is a British computer/video game designer and programmer. ... For other uses, see Llama (disambiguation). ... Namcos Pac-Man is one of the most popular video games ever made. ... Lou Montulli is a programmer who is well known for his work in producing web browsers. ... Lynx being used on Mac OS X Lynx is a text-only web browser for use on cursor-addressable, character cell terminals. ... This article is about the HTTP state mechanism. ... The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is a consortium that produces standards—recommendations, as they call them—for the World Wide Web. ... Bram Moolenaar is an active member of the open source software community. ... Vim, which stands for Vi IMproved, is an open source, multiplatform text editor extended from vi. ... David A. Moon is a programmer and computer scientist, well known for his work on the Lisp programming language and related topics. ... MACLISP (or Maclisp) is a dialect of the Lisp programming language. ... ZetaLisp was the name Symbolics gave to their dialect of Lisp on their Lisp Machine models, to distinguish it from the MIT version. ... Charles H. Moore Charles H. Moore (also known as Chuck Moore) (born 1938) is the inventor of the Forth programming language. ... Forth is a programming language and programming environment, initially developed by Charles H. Moore at the US National Radio Astronomy Observatory in the early 1970s. ... Roger D. Moore was the 1973 recipient (with Larry Breed and Richard Lathwell) of the Grace Murray Hopper Award from the Association for Computing Machinery. ... APL (for A Programming Language) is an array programming language based on a notation invented in 1957 by Kenneth E. Iverson while at Harvard University. ... IPSANET was an early packet switching network hosted on I. P. Sharp Associates (IPSA)s commercial time sharing hosts. ... I. P. Sharp Associates, IPSA for short, was a major Canadian computer time sharing, consulting and services firm of the 1970s and 80s. ... Urban Dominik Müller (also spelled Urban Dominik Mueller when umlauts are not available) is the creator of the Aminet Amiga archive, the original author of the XPK compression library and the creator of the Brainfuck programming language. ... The brainfuck language is an esoteric programming language noted for its extreme minimalism. ... Mike Muuss (left) at the Ballistic Research Laboratory, using BRL-CAD to develop an M1 prototype, with Earl Weaver (right). ... For other uses, see Ping (disambiguation). ...

N - P

• Patrick Naughton - early Java designer, xlock, HotJava
• Graham Nelson - creator of the Inform authoring system for Interactive fiction
• Col Needham - creator of the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
• Peter Norton - programmer of the famous file manager program, Norton Commander
• Kristen Nygaard - SIMULA
• Ed Oates - co-creator of Oracle database, co-founder of Oracle Corporation
• Jarkko Oikarinen - creator of Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
• John Ousterhout - creator of Tcl/Tk
• Andrew and Philip Oliver, The Oliver Twins - Many ZX Spectrum games including Dizzy
• Seymour Papert - Logo programming language
• Tim Paterson - author of 86-DOS (QDOS)
• Alexey Pajitnov - inventor of the game Tetris on the Electronica 60
• Charles Petzold - author of many Microsoft Windows programming books
• Jeffrey Peterson - key free software architect, creator of Quepasa
• Rob Pike - Wrote first bitmapped window system for Unix, co-creator of UTF-8 character encoding, author of text editor sam and programming environment acme, main author of Plan 9 and Inferno operating systems
• Kent Pitman - technical contributor to the ANSI Common Lisp standard.

Java refers to a number of computer software products and specifications from Sun Microsystems that together provide a system for developing application software and deploying it in a cross-platform environment. ... HotJava 3. ... Graham Nelson (born 1968) is the creator of the Inform design system for creating interactive fiction (IF) games. ... Inform is a programming language and design system for interactive fiction originally created in 1993 by Graham Nelson. ... Zork I is one of the first interactive fiction games, as well as being one of the first commercially sold. ... Colin Needham (born c. ... The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is an online database of information about movies, actors, television shows, production crew personnel, and video games. ... Peter Norton Peter Norton (born November 14, 1943) is an American software publisher and philanthropist. ... Norton Commander (commonly shortened to NC) is an Orthodox File Manager (OFM) program, written by John Socha and released by Peter Norton Computing (later acquired by the Symantec corporation). ... Kristen Nygaard Kristen Nygaard (August 27, 1926 - August 10, 2002) was a Norwegian mathematician, computer programming language pioneer and politician. ... Simula is a name for two programming languages, Simula I and Simula 67, developed in the 1960s at the Norwegian Computing Center in Oslo, by Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard. ... Ed Oates (1946-) co-founded Software Development Labs in August 1977 with Larry Ellison, and Bob Miner. ... The term Oracle database may refer either to the database management system (DBMS) software released by Oracle Corporation as Oracle RDBMS, or to any of the individual databases managed by such software. ... Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) is one of the major companies developing database management systems (DBMS), tools for database development, middle-tier software, enterprise resource planning software (ERP), customer relationship management software (CRM) and supply chain management (SCM) software. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... IRC redirects here. ... John Ousterhout is the original force behind the scripting programming language Tcl and the platform-independent GUI toolkit Tk, which he developed when he was professor at the University of California, Berkeley. ... Tcl (originally from Tool Command Language, but nonetheless conventionally rendered as Tcl rather than TCL; and pronounced tickle) is a scripting language created by John Ousterhout. ... In computing, Tk is an open source, cross-platform widget toolkit, that is, a library of basic elements for building a graphical user interface (GUI). ... The Oliver Twins are two British brothers, Philip and Andrew Oliver, who started to develop computer games professionally while they were still at school. ... The ZX Spectrum is an 8-bit personal home computer released in the United Kingdom in 1982 by Sinclair Research Ltd. ... Dizzy may refer to: Dizzy - Who needs an explination? I Kick ass! Thats all you need to know. ... Seymour Papert Seymour Papert (born March 1, 1928 Pretoria, South Africa) is an MIT mathematician, computer scientist, and prominent educator. ... Logo turtle graphic The Logo programming language is a functional programming language. ... Tim Paterson (born 1956) is an American computer programmer, best known as the original author of the popular MS-DOS operating system. ... 86-DOS was an operating system developed and marketed by Seattle Computer Products for its Intel 8086-based computer kit. ... Alexey Pajitnov Alexey Pajitnov (Алексей Пажитнов, born 1956, Russia), whose last name is sometimes transliterated Pazhitnov, is a Russian computer engineer, who developed the popular game Tetris while working for the Computer Centre of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, a Soviet government-founded R&D centre. ... Tetris (Russian: ) is a falling-blocks puzzle video game, released on a large spectrum of platforms. ... Electronica 60 was a terminal computer made in the Soviet Union by Elektronika. ... Charles Petzold is a technical author on Microsoft Windows applications. ... Windows redirects here. ... Jeffrey Peterson (born October 11, 1972 in Santa Barbara, California) is an American technology entrepreneur and Arizona millionaire who is considered the pioneer of Hispanic Internet in the United States. ... Free software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with restrictions only to ensure that further recipients can also do these things. ... ... Rob Pike (born 1956) is a software engineer and author. ... UTF-8 (8-bit UCS/Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode. ... Sam is a multi-file text editor originally designed at Bell Labs by Rob Pike (with the help of Ken Thompson and other Unix developers) in the early 1980s for the DMD 5620 windowing terminal running Unix. ... Acme is a multiwindow editor and shell under the Plan 9 operating system. ... Plan 9 from Bell Labs is a distributed operating system, primarily used as a research vehicle. ... Inferno is an operating system for creating and supporting distributed services. ... Kent M. Pitman is the President of HyperMeta, Inc. ... Common Lisp, commonly abbreviated CL, is a dialect of the Lisp programming language, published in ANSI standard X3. ...

R

• Theo de Raadt - Founding member of NetBSD, founder of OpenBSD and OpenSSH
• Jef Raskin - started the Macintosh project in Apple Computer, designed Canon Cat computer, developed The Humane Environment program
• Eric Raymond - Open Source movement, author of fetchmail
• Amarendra A. Reddy - CSF, Aditi Technologies
• Dennis Ritchie - C, Unix, Plan 9 from Bell Labs, Inferno
• Ron Rivest - co-inventor of the RSA algorithm (the R in the name stands for Rivest)
• Marc J. Rochkind - SCCS, see SCM, SCM History
• John Romero - first person shooters Doom, Quake
• Blake Ross - co-author of Mozilla Firefox
• Alessandro Rossini - co-author of ZNF
• Guido van Rossum - Python
• Jeff Rulifson - Lead programmer on the NLS project
• Rusty Russell - Creator of iptables for linux
• Steve Russell - First Lisp interpreter; original Spacewar! graphic computer game.

Theo de Raadt, (IPA pronunciation: ), born May 19, 1968 in Pretoria, South Africa, is a software engineer who lives in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. ... NetBSD is a freely redistributable, open source version of the Unix-like BSD computer operating system. ... OpenBSD is a Unix-like computer operating system descended from Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), a Unix derivative developed at the University of California, Berkeley. ... OpenSSH (Open Secure Shell) is a set of computer programs providing encrypted communication sessions over a computer network using the SSH protocol. ... Jef Raskin outdoors, photographed by his son Aza Raskin. ... The first Macintosh computer, introduced in 1984, upgraded to a 512K Fat Mac. The Macintosh or Mac, is a line of personal computers designed, developed, manufactured, and marketed by Apple Computer. ... Apple Inc. ... The Canon Cat was an innovative, task-dedicated, desktop computer released in 1987. ... In computers, The Humane Environment (THE) is a program whose purpose is to demonstrate an apparently unprecedented style of graphical user interface. ... Eric S. Raymond (FISL 6. ... The open source movement is an offshoot of the free software movement that advocates open source software as an alternative label for free software, primarily on pragmatic rather than philosophical grounds. ... fetchmail is a Free software utility for POSIX-compliant operating systems which is used to retrieve e-mail from a remote POP3, IMAP, ETRN or ODMR mail server to the users local system. ... CSF may refer to: Caesium fluoride (cesium fluoride), a chemical compound California Scholarship Federation California State University, Fullerton, a university in Southern California Caltech Satanic Fellowship Catholic Students Forum, an organisation for Catholic Students in England and Wales Cerebrospinal fluid Casual Soccer Firm, a football hooligan gang attaching themselves to... Aditi Technologies is a software outsourcing company based out of Bangalore, India and Bellevue, Wash. ... Dennis Ritchie Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie (born September 9, 1941) is a computer scientist notable for his influence on ALTRAN, B, BCPL, C, Multics, and Unix. ... C is a general-purpose, block structured, procedural, imperative computer programming language developed in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system. ... Filiation of Unix and Unix-like systems Unix (officially trademarked as UNIX®, sometimes also written as or ® with small caps) is a computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Douglas McIlroy. ... Plan 9 from Bell Labs is a distributed operating system, primarily used as a research vehicle. ... Inferno is an operating system for creating and supporting distributed services. ... Election People This box:      Professor Ronald Lorin Rivest (born 1947, Schenectady, New York) is a cryptographer. ... In cryptography, RSA is an algorithm for public-key cryptography. ... SCCS may refer to any of the following: Source Code Control System is a method of controlling software versions Switching Control Center System OSS used by telephone companies during 1970s to 1990s Swarthmore College Computer Society is a student organization at Swarthmore College South Camden Community School is a secondary... Software Configuration Management (SCM) is part of configuration management (CM). ... In computing, Software Configuration Management (SCM) can be approached from a historical perspective, in which CM (for Configuration Management) was used earlier, originally for hardware development and production control. ... Alfonso John Romero (born October 28, 1967[1] in Colorado Springs, Colorado) is a well-known game designer, programmer, and developer in the video game industry. ... A first-person shooter (FPS) is a computer or video game where the players on-screen view of the game world simulates that of the character, and there is some element of shooting involved. ... Doom (or DOOM)[1] is a 1993 computer game by id Software that is a landmark title in the first-person shooter genre. ... For an overview of the Quake game franchise go to Quake series. ... Blake Ross became a celebrity in early 2005 as the press became interested in the personalities behind Firefox following the success of its 1. ... Firefox redirects here. ... ZNF is an open source framework for developing PHP5 web applications. ... Guido van Rossum Guido van Rossum is a Dutch computer programmer who is best known as the author of the Python programming language. ... Python is a high-level programming language first released by Guido van Rossum in 1991. ... Johns F. (Jeff) Rulifson (born August 20, 1941) is a computer scientist largely known for his involvement at the Augmentation Research Center, at then-named Stanford Research Institute (now SRI International) in implementing the On-Line System (NLS), a system that foreshadowed many future developments in modern computing and networking. ... The NLS workstation showing the CRT display, keyboard, pushbuttons, and mouse NLS, or the oNLine System, was a revolutionary computer collaboration system designed by Douglas Engelbart and the researchers at the Augmentation Research Center (ARC) at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) during the 1960s. ... Paul Rusty Russell, employed by IBMs Linux Technology Center and a technical member of OzLabs, is an Australian Linux kernel hacker. ... In computer networking, netfilter, along with its companion iptables, are collectively a software extension to the Linux operating system that implements a stateful firewall framework. ... This article is about operating systems that use the Linux kernel. ... Steve Russel created the first videogame, Spacewar at the Tech Model Railroad Club at the MIT. Categories: Substubs ... Lisp is a family of computer programming languages with a long history and a distinctive fully-parenthesized syntax. ... Spacewar! is one of the earliest video games for a digital computer. ...

S

• Bob Sabiston - Rotoshop, interpolating rotoscope animation software
• Santiago Lizardo Oscares - Molins, Jerba, GPGEXT, Beobachter, MadCommander, libsdl for php
• Carl Sassenrath - Operating systems, Programming languages, Amiga, REBOL
• Chris Sawyer - Developer of Roller Coaster Tycoon and the Transport Tycoon series
• Bill Schelter - GNU Maxima, GNU Common Lisp
• Randal L. Schwartz - Just another Perl hacker
• Adi Shamir - co-inventor of the RSA algorithm (the S in the name stands for Shamir)
• Cliff Shaw - IPL, the first AI language
• Zed Shaw - Wrote the Mongrel Web Server, for Ruby web applications.
• Emily Short - prolific writer of Interactive fiction and co-developer of Inform version 7
• Jacek Sieka - Developer of DC++ an open-source, peer-to-peer file-sharing client
• Ken Silverman - creator of Duke Nukem 3D's graphics engine
• Charles Simonyi - Hungarian notation, Microsoft Word
• Colin Simpson - developer of CircuitLogix simulation software
• Rich Skrenta, co-founder of the Open Directory Project
• Matthew Smith - ZX Spectrum games, including Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy
• Henry Spencer - C News, Regex
• Quentin Stafford-Fraser - author of the original VNC viewer, first Windows VNC server, client program for the first webcam
• Richard Stallman - Emacs, GCC, GDB, founder and pioneer of the GNU Project, terminal-independent I/O pioneer on ITS, Lisp machine manual (chineual)
• Guy Steele - Common Lisp, Scheme
• Alexander Stepanov-creator of Standard Template Library, STL

Bjarne Stroustrup - C++ Bob Sabiston (born 1967) is an American film art director, computer programmer, and creator of the Rotoshop software program for computer animation. ... Image example from A Scanner Darkly Rotoshop is a proprietary graphics editing program created by Bob Sabiston. ... Rotoscoping is a technique where animators trace live action movement, frame by frame, for use in animated films. ... Molins is a framework for PHP 5 that was inspired by Struts, but also has much in common with the other sub-projects of Jakarta like Torque and Commons. ... Djerba, or Jerba, is an island off the coast of Tunisia. ... Carl Sassenrath created Exec, a major component of the Amigas Operating System, as well as the REBOL programming language. ... In computing, an operating system (OS) is the system software responsible for the direct control and management of hardware and basic system operations. ... Other listings of programming languages are: Categorical list of programming languages Generational list of programming languages Chronological list of programming languages Note: Esoteric programming languages have been moved to the separate List of esoteric programming languages. ... This article is about the family of home computers. ... REBOL, the Relative Expression Based Object Language (pronounced [rebl]), is a data exchange and programming language designed specifically for network communications and distributed computing. ... Chris Sawyer is a British computer game developer who is best-known for designing and programming RollerCoaster Tycoon, RollerCoaster Tycoon 2, and Transport Tycoon. ... In this screenshot of Rollercoaster Tycoon, a car ride is visible along with parts of a log flume water ride and an inverted roller coaster. ... Screenshot of Transport Tycoon Transport Tycoon (TT) and Transport Tycoon Deluxe (TTD) are computer games in which the player is in control of a transport company, and can compete against rival companies to make as much profit as possible, by transporting passengers and various goods by road, rail, sea or... William Frederick Schelter (died July 30, 2001) was a professor of mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin and a Lisp developer and programmer. ... Maxima screenshot GNU Maxima is a free computer algebra system, written in Lisp and released under the GNU General Public License. ... GNU Common Lisp (GCL) is the GNU Projects Common Lisp compiler, and an evolutionary development of Kyoto Common Lisp. ... Randal L. Schwartz Randal L. Schwartz (born November 22, 1961) is an American author, system administrator and programming consultant. ... Just another Perl hacker refers to a Perl program which prints Just another Perl hacker, (the comma being canonical but occasionally omitted) using extremely obfuscated methods, typically ones based on obscure behaviours of sometimes rarely-used functions, in the spirit of the Obfuscated C Contest. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... In cryptography, RSA is an algorithm for public-key cryptography. ... J.C. (Cliff) Shaw was a systems programmer at the RAND Corporation. ... Information Processing Language (IPL) is a programming language developed by Allen Newell, Cliff Shaw, and Herbert Simon at RAND Corporation and the Carnegie Institute of Technology from about 1956. ... Mongrel is an open-source HTTP library and web server for Ruby web applications written by Zed A. Shaw. ... Emily Short is a prolific interactive fiction (IF) writer, perhaps best known for her debut game Galatea and her use of psychologically complex non-player game characters. ... Zork I is one of the first interactive fiction games, as well as being one of the first commercially sold. ... Inform is a programming language and design system for interactive fiction originally created in 1993 by Graham Nelson. ... Jacek Sieka is a programmer who is best known for leading the development of the DC++ peer-to-peer file sharing client. ... DC++ is an open-source, peer-to-peer file-sharing client that can be used to connect to the Direct Connect network or to the ADC protocol. ... Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ... A peer-to-peer (or P2P) computer network is a network that relies on the computing power and bandwidth of the participants in the network rather than concentrating it in a relatively few servers. ... File sharing is the activity of making files available to other users for download over the Internet, but also over smaller networks. ... In computing, a client is a system that accesses a (remote) service on another computer by some kind of network. ... He invented the Build Engine Ken Silverman (born November 1, 1975) is a jewish game programmer best known for writing the Build engine used in Duke Nukem 3D, Redneck Rampage, and more than a dozen other games in the mid- to late-1990s. ... Duke Nukem 3D is a first-person shooter computer game developed by 3D Realms and published by Apogee Software. ... Charles Simonyi (Hungarian: Simonyi Károly; born September 10, 1948, Budapest) is a computer software executive who, as head of Microsofts application software group, oversaw the creation of Microsofts flagship office applications. ... Hungarian notation is a naming convention in computer programming, in which the name of a variable indicates its type or intended use. ... Microsoft Word is a word processing application from Microsoft. ... Keynote address, International Distance Education Conference, Copenhagen, 2006 Colin Simpson is a Canadian entrepreneur, software developer, and the author of five electronics textbooks, including the bestseller Principles of Electronics. ... CircuitLogix is an electronic circuit simulator which utilizes PSpice to allow for the simulation of thousands of electronic devices, models, and circuits. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Computer simulation. ... Richard Rich Skrenta (b. ... The Open Directory Project (ODP), also known as dmoz (from , its original domain name), is a multilingual open content directory of World Wide Web links owned by Netscape that is constructed and maintained by a community of volunteer editors. ... Matthew Smith (born 1966) is a British computer game programmer. ... The ZX Spectrum is an 8-bit personal home computer released in the United Kingdom in 1982 by Sinclair Research Ltd. ... Manic Miner is a classic platform game originally written for the ZX Spectrum by Matthew Smith and released by Bug-Byte in 1983 (later re-released by Software Projects). ... Jet Set Willy is a computer game for the ZX Spectrum home computer. ... Henry Spencer is a co-author of C News and The Ten Commandments for C Programmers. ... C News is a news server package, written by Geoff Collyer, assisted by Henry Spencer, at the University of Toronto as a replacement for B News. ... This article needs cleanup. ... James Quentin Stafford-Fraser was instrumental in the creation of the Trojan room coffee pot: the first webcam. ... Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is a desktop sharing system which uses the RFB (Remote FrameBuffer) protocol to remotely control another computer. ... The Trojan Room coffee pot was the inspiration for the worlds first webcam. ... Richard Matthew Stallman (born March 16, 1953), often abbreviated rms,[1] is an American software freedom activist, hacker,[2] and software developer. ... This article is about the text editor. ... The GNU Compiler Collection (usually shortened to GCC) is a set of programming language compilers produced by the GNU Project. ... The GNU Debugger, usually called just GDB, is the standard debugger for the GNU software system. ... GNU (pronounced ) is a computer operating system composed entirely of free software. ... ITS, the Incompatible Timesharing System, was an early, revolutionary, and influential MIT time-sharing operating system; it was developed principally by the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT, with some help from Project MAC. ITS development was initiated in the late 1960s by those (the majority of the MIT AI Lab... The original Lisp machine built by Greenblatt and Knight Lisp machines were general-purpose computers designed (usually through hardware support) to efficiently run Lisp as their main software language. ... Guy Lewis Steele, Jr. ... Common Lisp, commonly abbreviated CL, is a dialect of the Lisp programming language, published in ANSI standard X3. ... Scheme is a multi-paradigm programming language. ... Alexander Stepanov (born November 16, 1950 in Moscow) is the key person behind the C++ Standard Template Library, which he started to develop around 1993 while employed at HP Labs. ... Bjarne Stroustrup Bjarne Stroustrup (IPA: ) (born December 30, 1950 in Aarhus, Denmark) is a computer scientist and the College of Engineering Chair Professor of Computer Science at Texas A&M University. ... C++ (pronounced see plus plus, IPA: ) is a general-purpose programming language with high-level and low-level capabilities. ...

• Zeev Suraski - co-creator of PHP programming language
• Gerald Jay Sussman - Scheme
• Tim Sweeney - The Unreal engine, UnrealScript, ZZT

Zeev Suraski is an Israeli programmer, PHP developer and co-founder of Zend Technologies. ... For other uses, see PHP (disambiguation). ... // Gerald Jay Sussman is the Panasonic Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). ... Scheme is a multi-paradigm programming language. ... Tim Sweeney is a computer game programmer and the founder and president of Epic Games, previously known as Epic MegaGames. ... For other uses, see Unreal (disambiguation). ... UnrealScript is the scripting language of the Unreal engine and is used for authoring game code and gameplay events. ... ZZT is an ANSI-based computer game, created in 1991 by Tim Sweeney, of Epic Games, who later designed Unreal. ...

T - V

• Andrew Tanenbaum - Minix
• Audrey "Autrijus" Tang - designer of Pugs
• Simon Tatham - NASM, PuTTY
• Tomaž Tekavec - main developer of NConstruct
• Larry Tesler - the PUB markup language, the Smalltalk browser, debugger and inspector, and (with Tim Mott) the Gypsy word processor
• Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner - co-creator of Opera Web browser
• Avie Tevanian - author of the Mach kernel
• Ken Thompson - main designer and author of Unix, Plan 9 and Inferno operating systems, B and Bon programming languages (precursors of C), inventor of UTF-8 character encoding, introduced regular expressions in QED.
• Michael Tiemann - GCC
• Linus Torvalds - original author and current maintainer of the Linux kernel and creator of Git, a source code management system
• Leonard H. Tower Jr. - GCC & GNU diff
• Michael Toy - co-developer of the computer game Rogue
• Roy Trubshaw - MUD - together with Richard Bartle, the father of MUDs
• Andrew Tridgell - Samba, Rsync
• Bob Truel, co-founder of the Open Directory Project
• Wietse Venema - Postfix, SATAN, TCP Wrapper
• Paul Vixie - BIND, Cron
• Patrick Volkerding - Original author and the current maintainer of the Slackware Linux Distribution

Andrew S. Tanenbaum Dr. Andrew Stuart Andy Tanenbaum (sometimes called ast)[1] (born 1944) is a professor of computer science at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam in the Netherlands. ... MINIX is a free/open source, Unix-like operating system (OS) based on a microkernel architecture. ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ... Pugs is a compiler and interpreter for the Perl 6 programming language, started on February 1, 2005 by Audrey Tang. ... Simon G. Tatham (born May 3, 1977) is a free software author living in Cambridge, who has been involved in a number of projects, including NASM and PuTTY, and most recently a portable collection of puzzle games. ... NASM, the Netwide Assembler, is a free software Intel x86 assembler. ... PuTTY is a free software SSH, Telnet, rlogin, and raw TCP client. ... Tomaž Tekavec (Born in 1970) is a Slovenian programmer vorking mainly in the field of Internet applications. ... NConstruct is a rapid software development environment for the . ... Lawrence G. (Larry) Tesler (born April 24, 1945) is a computer scientist working in the field of human-computer interaction. ... A specialized markup language using SGML is used to write the electronic version of the Oxford English Dictionary. ... For other uses, see Small talk. ... A debugger is a computer program that is used to test and debug other programs. ... Gypsy was the first modern document preparation system, using the modern style of graphical user interface (in which the mouse was used to initiate commands), and would be familiar to any user of a modern personal computer. ... Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner is the CEO of Opera Software. ... Opera is a cross-platform web browser and Internet suite which handles common Internet-related tasks including visiting web sites, sending and receiving e-mail messages, managing contacts, chatting online, viewing Widgets, downloading BitTorrents, and reading Newsfeeds. ... As of 2005 Avadis Avie Tevanian is the Chief Software Technology Officer at Apple Computer. ... Mach is an operating system kernel developed at Carnegie Mellon University to support operating system research, primarily distributed and parallel computation. ... Ken Thompson Kenneth Thompson (born February 4, 1943) is a pioneer of computer science notable for his contributions to the development of the C programming language and the UNIX operating system. ... Filiation of Unix and Unix-like systems Unix (officially trademarked as UNIX®, sometimes also written as or ® with small caps) is a computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Douglas McIlroy. ... Plan 9 from Bell Labs is a distributed operating system, primarily used as a research vehicle. ... Inferno is an operating system for creating and supporting distributed services. ... B was the name of a programming language developed at Bell Labs. ... C is a general-purpose, block structured, procedural, imperative computer programming language developed in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system. ... UTF-8 (8-bit UCS/Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode. ... In computing, a regular expression is a string that is used to describe or match a set of strings, according to certain syntax rules. ... QED is a line-oriented computer text editor. ... Michael Tiemann is Vice President, Open Source Affairs at Red Hat Inc. ... The GNU Compiler Collection (usually shortened to GCC) is a set of programming language compilers produced by the GNU Project. ... Linus Benedict Torvalds  ; born December 28, 1969 in Helsinki, Finland, is a Finnish software engineer best known for initiating the development of the Linux kernel. ... This article is about operating systems that use the Linux kernel. ... Git is a distributed revision control / software configuration management project created by Linus Torvalds to manage software development of the Linux kernel. ... Leonard Len H. Tower Jr. ... The GNU Compiler Collection (usually shortened to GCC) is a set of programming language compilers produced by the GNU Project. ... In computing, diff is a file comparison utility that outputs the differences between two files. ... Michael Toy is a computer programmer best known as one of the developers of the 1980s dungeon-crawling computer game Rogue. ... Rogue is a dungeon crawling computer game dating from 1980. ... Roy Trubshaw was a programmer at Essex University who coauthored, with Richard Bartle, the first known MUD on a DEC PDP-10. ... This article is about a type of online computer game. ... Richard Allan Bartle (born January 10, 1960, in England) is a British writer and game researcher, best known for being the co-author of MUD, the first multi-user dungeon. ... Tridge redirects here. ... Samba logo. ... In computing, rsync is a computer program for Unix systems which synchronizes files and directories from one location to another while minimizing data transfer using delta encoding when appropriate. ... Bob Truel is a computer programmer. ... The Open Directory Project (ODP), also known as dmoz (from , its original domain name), is a multilingual open content directory of World Wide Web links owned by Netscape that is constructed and maintained by a community of volunteer editors. ... Wietse Venema speaking at a conference in 2004 Dr. Wietse Zweitze Venema (born 1951) is a Dutch programmer and physicist best known for writing the Postfix mail system. ... Postfix is a free software / open source mail transfer agent (MTA), a computer program for the routing and delivery of email. ... This article is about the concept of Satan. ... TCP Wrapper is a host-based Networking ACL system, used to filter network access to Internet Protocol servers on (Unix-like) operating systems such as Linux or BSD. It allows host or subnetwork IP addresses, names and/or ident query replies, to be used as tokens on which to filter... Paul Vixie is the author of several RFCs and well known UNIX system programs, among them SENDS, proxynet, rtty and Vixie cron. ... BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain, previously: Berkeley Internet Name Daemon) is the most commonly used DNS server on the Internet, especially on Unix-like systems, where it is a de facto standard. ... In computing, cron is a time-based scheduling service in Unix-like computer operating systems. ... Patrick Volkerding (born 1967) is the founder and maintainer of the Slackware Linux distribution. ... Slackware was one of the earliest Linux distributions, and is the oldest, and most UNIX-like, distribution still being maintained[1]. It was created by Patrick Volkerding of Slackware Linux, Inc. ...

W - Z

• Larry Wall - warp, rn, patch, Perl
• Bob Wallace - author PC-Write word processor; he is considered one of the fathers of shareware
• John Walker, co-founder of Autodesk
• John Warnock - creator of PostScript
• Pei-Yuan Wei - author of Viola, one of the earliest graphical browsers
• Peter J. Weinberger - co-creator of AWK (programming language) (the W in the name stands for Weinberger)
• Andrew Welch - author of Maelstrom, Snapz Pro; founder of Ambrosia Software
• David Wheeler - co-inventor of the subroutine; designer of WAKE; co-designer of Tiny Encryption Algorithm, XTEA, Burrows-Wheeler transform. (see http://www.dwheeler.com/dwheeler.html); this refers to several David Wheelers in computing
• Arthur Whitney - A+, K
• George Williams - creator of FontForge, software for font editing & creation, and various fonts.
• Roberta and Ken Williams -- Sierra Entertainment, King's Quest, graphic adventure game
• Dave Winer – developed XML-RPC, Frontier scripting language
• Niklaus Wirth - Pascal, Modula-2, Oberon
• Don Woods - INTERCAL, Colossal Cave Adventure
• Steve Wozniak - Breakout, Apple Integer BASIC, founded Apple Computer (with Steve Jobs)
• Jerry Yang - co-creator of Yahoo!
• Victor Yngve - author of first string processing language, COMIT
• Jamie Zawinski - Lucid Emacs, Netscape, Mozilla, XScreenSaver
• Philip Zimmermann - creator of encryption software PGP