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awesome-programmers

A list of history's greatest software engineers and tech pioneers
https://github.com/rekihattori/awesome-programmers

  • Edgar F. Codd - creator of System R, the first implementation of the [SQL](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL) database query language.
  • Charles W. Bachman - list data storage database [Integrated Data Store](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_Data_Store), known to be one of the first database management systems and he is the organizer of the group [CODASYL](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CODASYL).
  • Donald D. Chamberlin - creator of the most popular database query language, [SQL](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL).
  • Raymond F. Boyce - creator of the most popular database query language, [SQL](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL).
  • Jeff Dean - author of the seminal paper of "big data" storage [BigTable](http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/bigtable-osdi06.pdf), the co-developer of the [BigTable](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigtable) system, the co-author of the important paper for the "big data" operational model [MapReduce](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MapReduce) and the co-author of the paper for a highly distributed database [Spanner](http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/spanner-osdi2012.pdf).
  • Sanjay Ghemawat - author of the seminal paper of "big data" storage [BigTable](http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/bigtable-osdi06.pdf), the co-developer of the [BigTable](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigtable) system, the co-author of the important paper for the "big data" operational model [MapReduce](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MapReduce), the co-author of the large cluster data system [Google File System](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_File_System) and the co-author of the paper for a highly distributed database [Spanner](http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/spanner-osdi2012.pdf).
  • Michael Stonebraker
  • Doug Cutting - creator of the BigTable inspired, de-facto "big data" distributed file system and processing framework [Hadoop](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Hadoop).
  • Mike Cafarella - creator of the BigTable inspired, de-facto "big data" distributed file system and processing framework [Hadoop](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Hadoop).
  • Avinash Lakshman - creator of the [Dynamo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamo_(storage_system)) storage system which has played an [influential role](https://vimeo.com/144994937) in the modern design of highly scalable databases. He is also the creator of the [Cassandra](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Cassandra) distributed database system.
  • Werner Vogels - creator of the [Dynamo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamo_(storage_system)) storage system which has played an [influential role](https://vimeo.com/144994937) in the modern design of highly scalable databases.
  • Jim Gray
  • Andreas Reuter
  • Theo Härder
  • Phil Bernstein
  • Salvatore Sanfilippo (antirez) - value database
  • Prashant Malik - creator of the [Cassandra](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Cassandra) distributed database system
  • Avinash Lakshman - creator of the [Cassandra](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Cassandra) distributed database system
  • Peter Chen
  • T. William Olle
  • C.Wayne Ratliff
  • Malcolm Atkinson - Oriented Database Manifesto.
  • Dwight Merriman - oriented database system [Mongodb](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MongoDB).
  • Shay Banon - text search engine database [Elasticsearch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elasticsearch).
  • Yonik Seeley - text search engine database [Solr](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Solr).
  • Joydeep Sen Sarma - creator of the Hadoop based data warehouse framework [Hive](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Hive).
  • Ashish Thusoo - creator of the Hadoop based data warehouse framework [Hive](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Hive).
  • Brad Fitzpatrick
  • Andy Gross - creator of the highly scalable key-value database [Riak](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riak).
  • Damien Katz - oriented database [CouchDB](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CouchDB).
  • Luca Garulli - creator of the multi-model NoSQL database [OrientDB](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OrientDB)
  • Andrey Lomakin - creator of the multi-model NoSQL database [OrientDB](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OrientDB)
  • Emil Eifrem - creator of the graph database [Neo4j](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo4j)
  • Johan Svensson - creator of the graph database [Neo4j](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo4j)
  • Matthias Broecheler
  • Donald E. Knuth - bendix completion algorithm.
  • Edsger W. Dijkstra - yard algorithm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunting-yard_algorithm)
  • John Von Neumann
  • Ray Solomonoff
  • Leslie Lamport - facto framework for designing consensus and agreement in a distributed computing system, and the creator of [Lamport timestamps](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamport_timestamps) introduced through his well-cited paper "Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System", .
  • Robert W. Floyd - finding algorithm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycle_detection#Tortoise_and_hare), and the [Floyd–Steinberg dithering](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd%E2%80%93Steinberg_dithering) algorithm commonly used for image manipulation.
  • Tony Hoare
  • Michael Burrows - creator of the efficient string compression algorithm [Burrows–Wheeler transform](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burrows%E2%80%93Wheeler_transform).
  • David Wheeler - creator of the efficient string compression algorithm [Burrows–Wheeler transform](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burrows%E2%80%93Wheeler_transform).
  • Cliff Shaw
  • Stephen Cook - time reduction](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynomial-time_reduction), [NP-completeness](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NP-completeness) and [propositional proof system](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propositional_proof_system), all making significant contributions to algorithmic complexity.
  • Richard M. Karp - creator of the [Edmonds-Karp algorithm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmonds%E2%80%93Karp_algorithm) for efficiently computing a networks [maximum flow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_flow_problem), the author of proof for [21 NP-complete problems](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karp%27s_21_NP-complete_problems), the co-publisher of the [Hopcroft–Karp algorithm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopcroft%E2%80%93Karp_algorithm) for finding maximum cardinality [matchings](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matching_(graph_theory)), the co-creator of the [Rabin–Karp algorithm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabin%E2%80%93Karp_algorithm) for string searching, and co-publisher of the [Karp–Lipton theorem](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karp%E2%80%93Lipton_theorem).
  • John Hopcroft - publisher of the [Hopcroft–Karp algorithm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopcroft%E2%80%93Karp_algorithm) for finding maximum cardinality [matchings](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matching_(graph_theory)) and the co-publisher of the [Hopcroft-Tarjan Planarity Algorithm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planarity_testing#Path_addition_method).
  • Robert Tarjan - line lowest common ancestors algorithm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarjan%27s_off-line_lowest_common_ancestors_algorithm), the publisher of [Tarjan's strongly connected components algorithm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarjan%27s_strongly_connected_components_algorithm), the co-author of the [Hopcroft-Tarjan Planarity Algorithm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planarity_testing#Path_addition_method), the creator of the [Fibonacci heap](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_heap) data structure and co-created the [splay tree](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splay_tree) data structure.
  • John Cocke - creator of the [CYK algorithm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CYK_algorithm) for parsing context-free grammars in compilers.
  • Juris Hartmanis - author of an influential paper that establishes the foundations for the field of [computational complexity theory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_complexity_theory) and introduced [time complexity classes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_complexity#Complexity_classes) quantifying the efficiency of an algorithm.
  • Arthur Samuel
  • Richard E. Stearns - author of an influential paper that establishes the foundations for the field of [computational complexity theory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_complexity_theory) and introduced [time complexity classes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_complexity#Complexity_classes) quantifying the efficiency of an algorithm.
  • Geoffrey Hinton - layer neural networks influencing the deep learning community.
  • Chi-Chih Andrew Yao - author of [Dolev–Yao model](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolev%E2%80%93Yao_model), the author of important rules for [Pseudorandom number generators](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudorandom_number_generator), the author of the paper "On the security of public key protocols", the author of [Yao's Millionaires' Problem](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yao%27s_Millionaires%27_Problem) and the author of the XOR-lemma technique.
  • Leslie G. Valiant - P-complete](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp-P-complete) definition in complexity theory.
  • Michael O. Rabin - creator of the [Miller–Rabin primality test](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller%E2%80%93Rabin_primality_test), and the co-creator of the [Rabin–Karp algorithm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabin%E2%80%93Karp_algorithm) for string searching.
  • Charles E. Leiserson - tree](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_tree) interconnection network for provably efficient communication, and the creator of the [Cache-oblivious algorithm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache-oblivious_algorithm).
  • Jon Bentley - d tree](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-d_tree) space-partitioning data structure widely used for searching with multidimensional keys, and the creator of the [Bentley–Ottmann algorithm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bentley%E2%80%93Ottmann_algorithm).
  • Manuel Blum - creator of cryptography applications like the [Blum Blum Shub](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blum_Blum_Shub) and the [Blum–Goldwasser cryptosystem](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blum%E2%80%93Goldwasser_cryptosystem). The co-creator of the CAPTCHA originally served as a benchmark turing task.
  • Ron Rivest - creator of one of the first and most widely used practical public-key cryptosystems [RSA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_(cryptosystem)), the creator of the symmetric key encryption algorithms (RC2, RC4, RC5), and the creator of hash functions MD2, MD4, [MD5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD5) and MD6.
  • Adi Shamir - creator of one of the first and most widely used practical public-key cryptosystems [RSA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_(cryptosystem)), the co-creator of [Feige–Fiat–Shamir identification scheme](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feige%E2%80%93Fiat%E2%80%93Shamir_identification_scheme) a type of [zero-knowledge proof](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge_proof), the creator of [Shamir's Secret Sharing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir%27s_Secret_Sharing) algorithm, the co-creator of most well-known visual cryptography technique [(2, N) Visual Cryptography Sharing Case](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_cryptography#.282.2C_N.29_Visual_Cryptography_Sharing_Case), and co-discovered [Differential cryptanalysis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_cryptanalysis).
  • Leonard Adleman - creator of one of the first and most widely used practical public-key cryptosystems [RSA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_(cryptosystem)), and the author of the influential paper "Molecular Computation of Solutions To Combinatorial Problems" which introduced the concept of using DNA as a computational system.
  • Whitfield Diffie - author of important cryptography paper "New Directions in Cryptography" introducing the [Diffie–Hellman key exchange](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffie%E2%80%93Hellman_key_exchange), one-way encoding functions using a public-key, which later inspired the practical implementation of [RSA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_(cryptosystem)).
  • Claude Shannon
  • Martin Hellman - author of important cryptography paper "New Directions in Cryptography" introducing the [Diffie–Hellman key exchange](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffie%E2%80%93Hellman_key_exchange), one-way encoding functions using a public-key, which later inspired the practical implementation of [RSA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_(cryptosystem)).
  • Shafi Goldwasser - creator of encryption algorithm [Blum–Goldwasser cryptosystem](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blum%E2%80%93Goldwasser_cryptosystem) which unlike RSA has been mathematically proven to be as hard to break as factoring, the co-creator of encryption algorithm [Goldwasser–Micali cryptosystem](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldwasser%E2%80%93Micali_cryptosystem) considered to be the first probabilistic public-key encryption scheme, the co-author of [Zero-knowledge proof](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge_proof) in the paper "The Knowledge Complexity of Interactive Proof-Systems", and the co-definer of for proper constructions of [Pseudorandom function family](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudorandom_function_family).
  • Silvio Micali - creator of encryption algorithm [Goldwasser–Micali cryptosystem](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldwasser%E2%80%93Micali_cryptosystem) considered to be the first probabilistic public-key encryption scheme, the co-author of [Zero-knowledge proof](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge_proof) in the paper "The Knowledge Complexity of Interactive Proof-Systems", and the co-definer of for proper constructions of [Pseudorandom function family](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudorandom_function_family).
  • Michael O. Rabin
  • Alan Turing
  • Marvin Minsky - founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's AI laboratory
  • John McCarthy
  • Allen Newell - creator of two of the earliest Artificial Intelligence programs, the [Logic Theorist](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic_Theorist) developed to imitate the problem solving skills of humans and the [ General Problem Solver ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Problem_Solver).
  • Herbert A. Simon - creator of two of the earliest Artificial Intelligence programs, the [Logic Theorist](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic_Theorist) developed to imitate the problem solving skills of humans and the [ General Problem Solver ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Problem_Solver).
  • Cliff Shaw - creator of two of the earliest Artificial Intelligence programs, the [Logic Theorist](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic_Theorist) developed to imitate the problem solving skills of humans and the [ General Problem Solver ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Problem_Solver).
  • Christopher Strachey
  • Nathaniel Rochester
  • Herbert Gelernter - author of the paper "Intelligent Behavior in Problem-Solving Machines" to describe a theorem prover in geometry to exhibit intelligent behavior in machines.
  • Oliver Selfridge - oriented_programming) paradigm.
  • Arthur Samuel - learning program in artificial intelligence [Samuel Checkers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Samuel#Computer_checkers_.28draughts.29_development).
  • Margaret Masterman - creator of semantic nets for machine translation pioneering the field of computational linguistics.
  • Ray Solomonoff
  • Edward Feigenbaum
  • Leonard Uhr - author of significantly valuable paper "A Pattern Recognition Program That Generates, Evaluates, and Adjusts Its Own Operators" describing one of the first machine learning programs.
  • Raj Reddy - creator of early robotic systems like the Hearsay 1 that demonstrated advanced language speaking, and co-creator of many innovative artificial intelligence systems like the "blackboard model".
  • Seymour Papert - director of the [MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Computer_Science_and_Artificial_Intelligence_Laboratory).
  • Wally Feurzeig - assisted instruction system "MENTOR" using a set of rules for problem-solving.
  • Richard Greenblatt - playing program which became the first to win against a human opponent in tournament play.
  • Frank Rosenblatt
  • Joel Moses - creator of the [Macsyma](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macsyma) computer algebra system that demonstrated the use of symbolic reasoning for integration problems and became the first successful knowledge-based mathematical program.
  • Roger Schank - based reasoning)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case-based_reasoning).
  • Yorick Wilks
  • Jaime Carbonell
  • Feng-hsiung Hsu
  • Andrew Ng - founder of [Google Brain](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Brain) research project where one of the first applications of the deep learning model was applied and the co-developer of [Robot Operating System](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_Operating_System).
  • Jeff Dean - founder of [Google Brain](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Brain) research project which is used for Android's speech recognition system, photo search and video recommendations.
  • Judea Pearl
  • Jacek Karpiński - creator of one of the first machine learning algorithms for character and image recognition.
  • Gerald Jay Sussman - Right Plans](https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/7339/AIM-425.pdf?sequence=2) and dependency-based backtracking.
  • Tim Berners-Lee
  • Richard Matthew Stallman - creator of the original [Emacs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Emacs) text-editor also known as "GNUMACS", and the creator of the popular debugging tool [GDB (GNU)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Debugger)
  • Marc Andreessen - creator of the first widely used modern web browser [Mosaic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_(web_browser)) popularizing the world wide web.
  • Robert McCool
  • Butler Lampson - creator of the operating system, laser printer software, the first Ethernet and the [Bravo WYSIWYG](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bravo_(software)) text editor for the first personal computer [Xerox Alto](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Alto).
  • Charles Thacker - creator of the laser printer software and the first Ethernet for the first personal computer [Xerox Alto](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Alto).
  • Doug Cutting - creator of the highly scalable web crawler [Nutch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Nutch).
  • Mike Cafarella - creator of the highly scalable web crawler [Nutch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Nutch).
  • Jeff Dean - creator of the machine learning library [Tensorflow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TensorFlow).
  • Bill Joy - line interpreter, one of the earliest developers of [BSD](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Software_Distribution) and co-creator of [NFS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_File_System) Version 2.
  • Lars Bak
  • Matei Zaharia
  • Jason van Zyl
  • James Duncan Davidson
  • Alexander Stepanov
  • Stephen R. Bourne - line interpreter [Bourne Shell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourne_shell).
  • Nathan Marz
  • Ryan Dahl
  • Solomon Hykes
  • Erich Gamma - creator of popular code testing framework for Java [JUnit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JUnit).
  • Kent Beck - creator of [SUnit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUnit) unit testing framework for Smalltalk, and co-creator of popular code testing framework for Java [JUnit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JUnit).
  • Ward Cunningham - collaboration tool.
  • Igor Sysoev
  • Jamie Zawinski - source community, and one of the early developers of the [Netscape Navigator browser](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape_Navigator).
  • Daniel J. Bernstein
  • Michael Burrows - creator of the lock service for distributed systems [Chubby](http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/chubby-osdi06.pdf).
  • Robby Russell - my-zsh](https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh).
  • Cheng Zhao
  • Michael DeHaan
  • David Cournapeau - learn](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scikit-learn).
  • Max Howell
  • Mitchell Hashimoto
  • Jose Valim - creator of the authentication plugin for Rails [Devise](https://github.com/plataformatec/devise).
  • Yangqing Jia
  • Jon Skeet - creator of the popular data serializing tool [Protocol Buffers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_Buffers).
  • Brendan Burns - creator of container cluster management system [Kubernetes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubernetes), inspired by the Google Borg project.
  • Joe Beda - creator of container cluster management system [Kubernetes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubernetes), inspired by the Google Borg project.
  • Jonas Bonér
  • Jay Kreps - throughput message broker [Kafka](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Kafka).
  • Jun Rao - throughput message broker [Kafka](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Kafka).
  • Neha Narkhede - throughput message broker [Kafka](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Kafka).
  • Ben Reed - value store primarily used as Hadoop's configuration and synchronization service [Zookeeper](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_ZooKeeper).
  • Lars Rasmussen - creator of the original system for [Google Maps](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Maps).
  • Jack Dongarra - creator of linear algebra tool [BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Linear_Algebra_Subprograms), the co-creator of the parallel computing message system [MPI (message passing interface)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_Passing_Interface), the creator of ranking system for powerful computers [TOP500](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOP500) and co-creator of linear algebra library [ATLAS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatically_Tuned_Linear_Algebra_Software).
  • Travis Oliphant
  • Wes McKinney
  • Bram Moolenaar
  • Dennis Ritchie - creator of the [Unix](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix) operating system family that inspired the architecture of many modern operating systems like Linux.
  • Ken Thompson - creator of the [Unix](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix) operating system family and one of the original developers for the [Plan 9](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs) operating system.
  • Rob Pike - creator of [Plan 9](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs) operating system and the [Inferno](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(operating_system)) operating system.
  • Linus Torvalds
  • Brian Kernighan
  • Dave Cutler - creator of [Windows NT](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT) operating system family which it's kernel is still the foundation of the modern Microsoft operating system.
  • Ian Murdock
  • Douglas McIlroy
  • Russ Cox
  • Theo de Raadt
  • Robert Creasy - 40
  • Rod Johnson
  • David Heinemeier Hansson
  • Jordan Walke
  • Adrian Holovaty - creator of the [Django](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Django_(web_framework)) web framework.
  • Simon Willison - creator of the [Django](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Django_(web_framework)) web framework.
  • Mark Otto - creator of the front-end web framework [Twitter Bootstrap](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrap_(front-end_framework)).
  • Jacob Thornton - creator of the front-end web framework [Twitter Bootstrap](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrap_(front-end_framework)).
  • Mike Bostock
  • John Resig
  • Miško Hevery
  • Erik Meijer - Extensions).
  • Ben Christensen
  • Armin Ronacher
  • Geoff Schmidt - creator of popular JavaScript application development environment [meteor](https://github.com/meteor/meteor).
  • Guillermo Rauch - time JavaScript application framework [Socket.io](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socket.IO).
  • Guillaume Bort
  • Taylor Otwell
  • Yehuda Katz - creator of the JavaScript application development framework [Ember.js](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ember.js), the creator of JavaScript templating tool [handlebars](http://handlebarsjs.com/), the co-creator of package management system for ruby [bundler](https://github.com/bundler/bundler), and once a member of core development teams for "jQuery" and "Ruby on Rails".
  • Fabien Potencier
  • Dennis Ritchie
  • Ken Thompson - creator of the [Go](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(programming_language)) programming language and sole creator of the [B](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_(programming_language)) programming language, the direct predecessor of the C programming language.
  • Alan J. Perlis - creator [ALGOL](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL) programming language andhelped standardize education of computer science and programming language design.
  • John McCarthy
  • Donald E. Knuth
  • Brian Kernighan
  • Chris Lattner - end compiler and the [Swift](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swift_(programming_language)) programming language.
  • Kristen Nygaard - inventor of [Simula](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simula) which introduced the formal concept of [object-oriented programming](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented_programming) paradigm.
  • Ole-Johan Dahl - inventor of [Simula](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simula) which introduced the formal concept of [object-oriented programming](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented_programming) paradigm.
  • Alain Colmerauer
  • James Gosling
  • Niklaus Wirth
  • Konrad Zuse - level programming language [Plankalkül](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plankalk%C3%BCl) originally created for his original and world's first programmable computer, the [Z3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z3_(computer)).
  • Bjarne Stroustrup
  • Larry Wall
  • Don Syme
  • Anders Hejlsberg
  • Joe Armstrong
  • Rob Pike - creator of the [Go](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(programming_language)) programming language.
  • Alan Cooper - friendly programming language for Microsoft applications.
  • John G. Kemeny - creator of the [Basic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC) Programming Language.
  • Thomas E. Kurtz - creator of the [Basic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC) Programming Language.
  • Brad Cox - creator of [Objective-C](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective-C) Programming Language
  • Brendan Eich
  • Guido van Rossum
  • Erik Meijer - creator of the specifications for [Haskell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskell_(programming_language)) programming language.
  • Grady Booch - creator of the [Unified Modeling Language (UML)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Modeling_Language) popularly used to provide a standard visual notation for system designs.
  • Ivar Jacobson - creator of the [Unified Modeling Language (UML)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Modeling_Language) popularly used to provide a standard visual notation for system designs, and the co-creator of [SDL (Specifications and Design Language)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specification_and_Description_Language).
  • James Rumbaugh - creator of the [Unified Modeling Language (UML)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Modeling_Language) popularly used to provide a standard visual notation for system designs.
  • Kevin Hammond - creator of the specifications for [Haskell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskell_(programming_language)) programming language, and the co-creator of [GHC (Glasgow Haskell Compiler)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow_Haskell_Compiler).
  • Simon Peyton Jones - creator of the specifications for [Haskell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskell_(programming_language)) programming language, and the co-creator of [GHC (Glasgow Haskell Compiler)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow_Haskell_Compiler).
  • Rich Hickey
  • Seymour Papert - creator of the [Logo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_(programming_language)) educational programming language often used to draw line graphics with a [turtle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_(robot)) robot.
  • Cynthia Solomon - creator of the [Logo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_(programming_language)) educational programming language often used to draw line graphics with a [turtle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_(robot)) robot.
  • Wally Feurzeig - creator of the [Logo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_(programming_language)) educational programming language often used to draw line graphics with a [turtle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_(robot)) robot.
  • Jean Ichbiah
  • Kenneth E. Iverson - dimensional_arrays) and contributing to the development of the functional programming paradigm.
  • Yukihiro Matsumoto - oriented programming language.
  • Bertrand Meyer
  • Rasmus Lerdorf - side scripting language [PHP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP) primarily used for web development.
  • Martin Odersky - oriented programming language for the [Java virtual machine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_virtual_machine).
  • Xavier Leroy - creator of the [OCaml](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCaml) programming language that has functional and object oriented properties to its design.
  • Graydon Hoare - level systems programming language.
  • Jeremy Ashkenas
  • Jose Valim
  • Lars Bak
  • Jeff Bezanson - creator of the [Julia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_(programming_language)) dynamic programming language designed for high performance scientific computing.
  • Stefan Karpinski - creator of the [Julia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_(programming_language)) dynamic programming language designed for high performance scientific computing.
  • Viral B. Shah - creator of the [Julia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_(programming_language)) dynamic programming language designed for high performance scientific computing.
  • Alan Edelman - creator of the [Julia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_(programming_language)) dynamic programming language designed for high performance scientific computing.
  • Ary Borenszweig - creator of the statically type, object oriented programming language [Crystal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_(programming_language)) inspired by Ruby's syntax and C's compilation.
  • Juan Wajnerman - creator of the statically type, object oriented programming language [Crystal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_(programming_language)) inspired by Ruby's syntax and C's compilation.
  • Andrey Breslav - creator of the JVM run, statically typed programming language [Kotlin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotlin_(programming_language)).
  • Slava Pestov - oriented](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack-oriented_programming_language) programming language [Factor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factor_(programming_language)) and a member of the core team for [Swift](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swift_(programming_language)).
  • Arthur Whitney
  • John Ousterhout
  • Edsger W. Dijkstra
  • Alan Kay - oriented programming and helped create the Smalltalk language originally used for graphical interfaces.
  • Maurice Wilkes
  • Tony Hoare
  • Allen Newell
  • Herbert A. Simon
  • Ivan Sutherland
  • Peter Naur - creator of the influential programming language [Algol 60](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL_60) introducing nested function with lexical scope, and the co-creator of the [Backus-Naur form](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backus%E2%80%93Naur_Form) one of the main notation techniques for [context free grammars](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Context-free_grammar) used to describe syntax of programming languages.
  • Jean-Yves Girard
  • John C. Reynolds
  • Barbara Liskov - creator of the important object-oriented subtyping definition [Liskov substitution principle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liskov_substitution_principle) and the co-creator of [CLU](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLU_%28programming_language%29) programming language that introduced key features like abstract data types, iterators and use of classes with constructors.
  • Robin Milner - safe exception handling, and the creator of concurrency theory [CCS (Calculus of communicating systems)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculus_of_communicating_systems).
  • Christopher Strachey - creator of [Denotational semantics or Scott–Strachey semantics](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denotational_semantics) formalizing the definitions of programming languages by creating mathematical denotations describing expressions from the language.
  • Dana Scott - creator of [Denotational semantics or Scott–Strachey semantics](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denotational_semantics) formalizing the definitions of programming languages by creating mathematical denotations describing expressions from the language.
  • Noam Chomsky
  • Seymour Ginsburg - free.
  • Grace Hopper - 0 System](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-0_System), often considered as the first [compiler](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compiler) but functioned as a [loader](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loader_(computing)) for [Assembly](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_language) resulting to the development of higher level programming languages like [COBOL](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBOL).
  • John Backus - creator of the first high-level compiled programming language [FORTRAN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran) and its compiler, often credited as being the first [optimizing compiler](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimizing_compiler) and fully complete compiler.
  • Frances E. Allen - author of the paper "A Catalog of Optimizing Transformations" which is one of the main analysis strategies used in optimizing compilers.
  • Richard Matthew Stallman
  • Nathaniel Rochester - produced computer that he also created, the [IBM 701](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_701).
  • Lois Haibt - creator of the first high-level compiled programming language [FORTRAN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran) and its compiler.
  • Alon Zakai
  • Alvy Ray Smith
  • Ivan Sutherland - time graphical user interface and foundation for modern [Computer-aided design](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-aided_design) and the creator of whats considered to be the first virtual reality head-mounted system [The Sword of Damocles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sword_of_Damocles_(virtual_reality)).
  • Jim Blinn - ubiquitous rendering algorithms, including the [Blinn-Phong shading model](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinn%E2%80%93Phong_shading_model), [bump mapping](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bump_mapping), and [environment mapping](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflection_mapping).
  • Douglas Engelbart
  • Alan Kay
  • Larry Tesler - creator of the [Gypsy word processor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gypsy_(software)) with point and click ability, and the co-creator of "copy and paste" mechanism.
  • Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls Jr. - creator of [Bit blit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_blit) data operations for computer graphics, and the [popup menu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Context_menu) graphical mechanism.
  • David Canfield Smith
  • Bill Atkinson - creator of the GUI for the Apple Lisa, the creator of the original drawing software [MacPaint](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacPaint), and the creator of the [QuickDraw](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickDraw) graphics library.
  • Rob Pike - creator of programmable bitmap graphics terminal [Blit](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blit_(computer_terminal)).
  • John Carmack
  • William Fetter
  • Pierre Bézier - aided_design#History), the creator of [Bézier curve](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9zier_curve) and [Bézier surface](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9zier_surface) 3D computer graphics concepts.
  • Michael Abrash - creator of the video game and 3D rendering engine [Quake](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quake_(video_game)) [Quake Engine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quake_engine).
  • Alan Turing
  • Kurt Gödel - order predicate calculus.
  • Charles Babbage - purpose computer with the design of the [ Analytical Engine ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytical_Engine) and the creator for a prototype for a less powerful [ mechanical calculator ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Difference_engine).
  • Edsger W. Dijkstra
  • John von Neumann - replicating_programs) while studying self-replicating programs.
  • Leslie Lamport - tolerance by coordinating commands across replicated servers, and the co-discoverer of the [Byzantine fault tolerance](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_fault_tolerance) failure definitions.
  • Alonzo Church - taped Turing machines called [Lambda Calculus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda_calculus), and the co-creator of the [Church–Turing thesis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%E2%80%93Turing_thesis) formalizing the definitions of computable functions.
  • Claude Shannon - flow graph](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal-flow_graph).
  • Ada Lovelace
  • J. C. R. Licklider - style interactive computing, and an early researcher at Arpanet for concepts of a connected network like the internet.
  • Stephen Cole Kleene
  • John McCarthy - sharing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-sharing) for computers with multiprogramming.
  • John Cocke
  • Fernando J. Corbató - author of a paper that describes one of the earliest [time-sharing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-sharing) computer systems [CTSS (compatible time-sharing system)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatible_Time-Sharing_System) and the original creator of the influential time-sharing operating system [Multics](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multics) which pioneered many concepts widely adopted by almost all operating systems like Unix.
  • Per Brinch Hansen - createor of the synchronization construct for threads with mutex and blocking ability known as the [monitor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monitor_(synchronization)), the first to implement a remote procedure call, and the creator of the "Distributed Processes" language for distributed systems using RPC for external requests.
  • Gerard Salton
  • Sophie Wilson - creator of the [Acorn RISC Machine (ARM) architecture](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture), the most widely used model for modern smartphones, and the creator of the [BBC Basic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_BASIC) language for the acorn systems.
  • Tommy Flowers
  • Fred Brooks - creator of the [System 360](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/360) computer that introduced 8-bit byte addressing and first to emphasize the distinction of "system architecture" and implementation.
  • George Boole
  • Michael O. Rabin - creator of the [Nondeterministic finite automaton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nondeterministic_finite_automaton) a kind of state machine that has several possible transitions out of each state.
  • Dana Scott - creator of the [Nondeterministic finite automaton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nondeterministic_finite_automaton) a kind of state machine that has several possible transitions out of each state.
  • Margaret Hamilton - to-end testing.
  • Herman Hollerith - card](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_card) [Tabulating machine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabulating_machine) sparking the era of automatic data processing systems.
  • Joseph Marie Jacquard
  • Nikolay Brusentsov - valued_logic) called the [Seturn](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setun).
  • Vannevar Bush
  • Paul Baran - creator of the packet switched computer network for an early prototype of internet technology at ARPANET.
  • Jean Bartik - developer of early "stored program" computers and considered to be one of the first computer programmers, using the ENIAC, a vacuum tube computer during a time when "programming" meant using cables, dials, and switches to physically rewire the machine.
  • Richard Hamming - detecting and error-correcting codes
  • Nathan Marz - processing [Lambda architecture](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda_architecture) designed to use stream-processing or batch processing to handle data at a large scale.
  • Eric Brewer
  • John Atanasoff - Berry Computer)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atanasoff%E2%80%93Berry_computer) that was the first electronic digital computer.
  • Tim Berners-Lee
  • Vint Cerf - creator of the fundamental design principles for computer networking [Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_protocol_suite) in a profound paper "A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication" essentially outlining the architecture of the internet.
  • Robert E. Kahn - creator of the fundamental design principles for computer networking [Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_protocol_suite) in a profound paper "A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication" essentially outlining the architecture of the internet.
  • Leslie Lamport - facto framework for designing consensus and agreement in a distributed computing system, and the co-author of [Byzantine agreement](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Byzantine_agreement) protocol that handle and avoid failures in distributed algorithms.
  • Jeremie Miller
  • William Kahan - 1985](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754-1985) which was the de-facto standard for implementation rules of floating points in software.
  • Butler Lampson - phase commit protocol](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-phase_commit_protocol) which coordinates the processes in a distributed atomic transaction on whether to commit or rollback the transaction.
  • Rob Pike - designer of the character encoding standard [UTF-8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8), capable of encoding all possible characters and is the most widely used encoding for HTML files.
  • Ken Thompson - designer of the character encoding standard [UTF-8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8), capable of encoding all possible characters and is the most widely used encoding for HTML files.
  • Tim Bray - author of the original [XML](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML) specification
  • Bram Cohen - to-peer BitTorrent protocol, and the first BitTorrent program.
  • Kent Beck - creator of software development methodology [extreme programming](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_programming) to improve overall software quality, the co-founder of the "Agile Manifesto" and the agile software development paradigm, and credited to be the founder of [Test-driven development](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test-driven_development).
  • Ward Cunningham - creator of software development methodology [extreme programming](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_programming) to improve overall software quality.
  • Dave Thomas - founder of the "Agile Manifesto" and coined the phrases "DRY" [Don't repeat yourself](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_repeat_yourself) which emphasizes to reduce the repetition of code or data in software.
  • Ivar Jacobson
  • James H. Wilkinson - speed digital computer with numerical analysis and the developer of the "backward" [error analysis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error_analysis_(mathematics)) for algorithms.
  • Amir Pnueli
  • Tony Hoare
  • Robert W. Floyd - 615/reading/FloydMeaning.pdf) introducing concepts of program correctness directly inspiring [Hoare's triples](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoare_logic).
  • Edmund Melson Clarke - creator of the field for [Model-checking](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_checking) that introduced a machine executed system of [temporal logic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal_logic) to verify the computer program's correctness, and the co-creator of a system that represents state spaces during model checking runtime called [symbolic model checking](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_checking#Symbolic_model_checking).
  • E. Allen Emerson - creator of the field for [Model-checking](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_checking) that introduced a machine executed system of [temporal logic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal_logic) to verify the computer program's correctness.
  • Joseph Sifakis - creator of the field for [Model-checking](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_checking) that introduced a machine executed system of [temporal logic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal_logic) to verify the computer program's correctness.
  • Donald E. Knuth - volume work [The Art of Computer Programming](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Computer_Programming), often considered the bible of all fundamental algorithms.
  • Brian Kernighan
  • Dennis Ritchie
  • Alexander Stepanov
  • Jeffrey Ullman
  • Alfred Aho
  • John Hopcroft - author of the influential books [Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Automata_Theory,_Languages,_and_Computation) also known as [the Cinderella Book](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Automata_Theory,_Languages,_and_Computation), "Data Structures and Algorithms" and "The Design and Analysis of Computer Algorithms".
  • Steve McConnell
  • Fred Brooks - Month](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month) where [Brook's law](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks%E2%80%99_law) was first coined.
  • Erich Gamma - author of influential book [Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_Patterns).
  • Ralph Johnson - author of influential book [Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_Patterns).
  • Richard Helm - author of influential book [Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_Patterns).
  • John Vlissides - author of influential book [Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_Patterns).
  • Hal Abelson - author of [Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_and_Interpretation_of_Computer_Programs) also known as the "wizard book" that helped teach the principles of programming.
  • Gerald Jay Sussman - author of [Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_and_Interpretation_of_Computer_Programs) also known as the "wizard book" that helped teach the principles of programming.
  • Thomas H. Cormen - author of influential book [Introduction to Algorithms](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Algorithms) also known as "CLRS" now considered to be the standard reference for algorithms.
  • Charles E. Leiserson - author of influential book [Introduction to Algorithms](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Algorithms) also known as "CLRS" now considered to be the standard reference for algorithms.
  • Clifford Stein - author of influential book [Introduction to Algorithms](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Algorithms) also known as "CLRS" now considered to be the standard reference for algorithms.
  • Andy Hunt - author of software development book [The Pragmatic Programmer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pragmatic_Programmer), the co-author of many books in the "Pragmatic Bookshelf" series, and the co-author of "Programming Ruby".
  • Dave Thomas - author of software development book [The Pragmatic Programmer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pragmatic_Programmer), the co-author of many books in the "Pragmatic Bookshelf" series, and the co-author of "Programming Ruby".
  • Robert Cecil Martin
  • Scott Meyers
  • Martin Fowler - author along with Kent Beck of the book that popularized agile software development "Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code" and co-author of the "Manifesto for Agile Software Development".
  • Kent Beck - author of the "Manifesto for Agile Software Development" and "Extreme Programming Explained"
  • Glenford J. Myers
  • Richard Matthew Stallman
  • Brian Kernighan
  • Jon Skeet
  • Robert Floyd
  • Robert Tappan Morris
  • Petr Mitrichev
  • Gennady Korotkevich
  • Glenford J. Myers