Ankh Morpork's Finest Coder
Searching for the Twenty Top Software People in the World
In alphabetical order the nominees are:
| Tim Berners-Lee: "Father of the World Wide Web" and expectant father of the Semantic Web Joshua Bloch: Formerly at Sun, where he helped architect Java's core platform; now at Google Grady Booch: One of the original developers of the Unified Modeling Language Adam Bosworth: Famous for Quattro Pro, Microsoft Access, and IE4; then BEA, now Google Don Box: Coauthor of SOAP Stewart Brand: Cofounder in 1984 of the WELL bulletin board Tim Bray: One of the prime movers of XML, now with Sun Dan Bricklin: Cocreator of VisiCalc, the first PC spreadsheet Larry Brilliant: Cofounder in 1984 of the WELL bulletin board Sergey Brin: Son-of-college-math-professor turned cofounder of Google, Inc. Dave Cutler: The brains behind VMS; hired away by Microsoft for Windows NT Don Ferguson: Inventor of the J2EE application server at IBM Roy T. Fielding: Primary architect of HTTP 1.1 and a founder of the Apache Web server Bob Frankston: Cocreator of VisiCalc, the first PC spreadsheet Jon Gay: The "Father of Flash" James Gosling: "Father of Java" (though not its sole parent) Anders Hejlsberg: Genius behind the Turbo Pascal compiler, subsequently "Father of C#" Daniel W. Hillis: VP of R&D at the Walt Disney Company; cofounder, Thinking Machines Miguel de Icaza: Now with Novell, cofounder of Ximian Martin Fowler: Famous for work on refactoring, XP, and UML Bill Joy: Cofounder and former chief scientist of Sun; main author of Berkeley Unix Mitch Kapor: Designer of Lotus 1-2-3, founder of Lotus Development Corporation Brian Kernighan: One of the creators of the AWK and AMPL languages Mitchell Kertzman: Former programmer, founder, and CEO of Powersoft (later Sybase) Klaus Knopper: Prime mover of Knoppix, a Linux distro that runs directly from a CD Craig McClanahan: Of Tomcat, Struts, and JSF fame Nathan Myhrvold: Theoretical and mathematical physicist, former CTO at Microsoft Tim O'Reilly: Publisher, open source advocate; believer that great technology needs great books Jean Paoli: One of the co-creators of the XML 1.0 standard with the W3C; now with Microsoft John Patrick: Former VP of Internet technology at IBM, now "e-tired" Rob Pike: An early developer of Unix and windowing system (GUI) technology Dennis Ritchie: Creator of C and coinventor of Unix Richard Stallman: Free software movement's leading figure; founder of the GNU Project Bjarne Stroustrup: The designer and original implementor of C++ Andy Tanenbaum: Professor of computer science, author of Minix Ken Thompson: Coinventor of Unix Linus Torvalds: "Benevolent dictator" of the Linux kernel Alan Turing: Mathematician; author of the 1950 paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" Guido van Rossum: Author of the Python programming language Ann Winblad: Former programmer, cofounder of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners |
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