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*[[Allan Alcorn]] – [[Pong]]

*[[Andrei Alexandrescu]] – author, expert on languages [[C++]], [[D (programming language)|D]], and created the [[Modern C++ Design#Loki library|Loki library]]

*[[Frances Allen]] – [[optimizing compiler]]s, [[program optimization]], and [[parallel computing]]

*[[Paul Allen]] – [[Altair BASIC]], [[Applesoft BASIC]], cofounded [[Microsoft]]

*[[Eric Allman]] – [[sendmail]], [[syslog]]

*[[Sam Altman]] – [[OpenAI]]

*[[Marc Andreessen]] – co-created [[Mosaic (web browser)|Mosaic]], cofounded [[Netscape]]

*[[Bruce Artwick]] – [[Microsoft Flight Simulator]]

*[[Jeremy Ashkenas]] – [[CoffeeScript]] programming language and [[Backbone.js]]

*[[Julian Assange]] – [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4050423 Surfraw]<!--Q4050423-->, [[Rubberhose (file system)]], Strobe [[port scanner]] which influenced [[Nmap]]

*[[Bill Atkinson]] – [[QuickDraw]], [[HyperCard]]

*[[Lennart Augustsson]] – languages (Lazy [[ML (programming language)|ML]], Cayenne), compilers (HBC [[Haskell]], parallel Haskell front end, [[Bluespec]] [[SystemVerilog]] early), [[LPMud]] pioneer, [[NetBSD]] [[device driver]]s

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*[[Tim Berners-Lee]] – invented [[World Wide Web]]

*[[Daniel J. Bernstein]] – [[djbdns]], [[qmail]]

*[[Pierre Bézier]] – [[Bézier curve]], [[Bézier surface]], [[Computer-aided manufacturing]], [[UNISURF]]

*[[Eric Bina]] – cocreated [[Mosaic (web browser)|Mosaic web browser]]

*[[Marc Blank]] – cocreated ''[[Zork]]''

*[[Jim Blinn]] – [[Blinn–Phong reflection model]]

*[[Joshua Bloch]] – core Java language designer, lead the [[Java collections framework]] project

*[[Jonathan Blow]] – [[video game]]s: ''[[Braid (video game)|Braid]]'', ''[[The Witness (2016 video game)|The Witness]]''

*[[Susan G. Bond]] – cocreated [[ALGOL 68-R]]

*[[Grady Booch]] – cocreated [[Unified Modeling Language]]

*[[Ed Boon]] – [[Mortal Kombat]]

*[[Alan H. Borning]] – [[human–computer interaction]], [[object-oriented programming]], [[constraint programming]], [[programming language]]s, [[ThingLab]]

*[[Bert Bos]] – authored [[Argo (web browser)|Argo]] web browser, co-authored [[Cascading Style Sheets]]

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*[[Steve Capps]] – cocreated [[Macintosh]] and [[Apple Newton|Newton]]

*[[John Carmack]] – [[first-person shooter]]s ''[[Doom (series)|Doom]]'', ''[[Quake (video game)|Quake]]''

*[[Edwin Catmull]] – co-founder of [[Pixar]], [[Catmull–Rom spline]], [[Catmull–Clark subdivision surface]], [[texture mapping]]

*[[Vint Cerf]] – [[TCP/IP]], [[Network Control Protocol (ARPANET)|NCP]]

*[[Timothy M. Chan]] – [[Chan's algorithm]]

*[[Donald D. Chamberlin]] – [[SQL]]

*[[David Chaum]] – [[blind signature]]s, [[International Association for Cryptologic Research]], [[mix-net]], [[electronic voting]], [[Dining cryptographers protocol]], [[privacy-enhancing technologies]], and the godfather of [[digital currency]]

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*[[Richard W. Conway]] – compilers for [[CORC]], [[Cornell University Programming Language|CUPL]], and [[PL/C]]; XCELL Factory Modelling System

*[[Alan Cooper (software designer)|Alan Cooper]] – [[Visual Basic (classic)|Visual Basic]]

*[[Fernando J. Corbató]] – [[Multics]] and [[Compatible Time-Sharing System]]

*[[Mike Cowlishaw]] – [[Rexx|REXX and NetRexx]], [[Oxford English Dictionary|LEXX editor]], image processing, [[decimal]] arithmetic packages

*[[Alan Cox (computer programmer)|Alan Cox]] – co-developed [[Linux]] [[Kernel (operating system)|kernel]]

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*[[Lex Fridman]] – [[Lex Fridman#Lex Fridman Podcast|Artificial Intelligence Podcast]] now the [[Lex Fridman#Lex Fridman Podcast|Lex Fridmen Podcast]]

*[[David Filo]] – cocreated [[Yahoo!]]

*[[Hal Finney (computer scientist)|Hal Finney]] — helped [[Satoshi Nakamoto]] [[Debugging|debug]] [[Bitcoin]], [[Reusable proof-of-work|reusable proof-of-work]], and early developer of [[Pretty Good Privacy]].

*[[Brad Fitzpatrick]] – created [[memcached]], [[Livejournal]] and [[OpenID]]

*[[Andrew Fluegelman]] – author [[PC-Talk]] communications software; considered a cocreated [[shareware]]

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*[[David Gries]] – The book ''The Science of Programming'', [[Interference freedom]], Member Emeritus, IFIP Working Group 2.3 on Programming Methodology

*[[Ralph Griswold]] – cocreated [[SNOBOL]], created [[Icon (programming language)]]

*[[Robert Griesemer]] – cocreated [[Go_Go (programming_languageprogramming language)|Go]]

*[[Neil J. Gunther]] – authored Pretty Damn Quick (PDQ) performance modeling program

*[[Scott Guthrie]] (a.k.a. ScottGu) – ASP.NET creator

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*[[Margaret Hamilton (software engineer)|Margaret Hamilton]] – Director of Software Engineering Division of [[MIT Instrumentation Laboratory]], which developed on-board flight software for the space [[Apollo program]]

*[[Brian Harris (translation researcher)|Brian Harris]] – [[machine translation]] research, Canada's first [[computer-assisted translation]] course, natural translation theory, [[community interpreting]] (Critical Link)

*[[Donald Haderle]] – one of the first commercial [[RDBMS]]s the [[IBM Db2]]

*[[Juris Hartmanis]] – [[Computational complexity theory]]

*[[Eric Hehner]] – [[predicative programming]], [[formal methods]], [[quote notation]], [[ALGOL]]

*[[David Heinemeier Hansson]] – created the [[Ruby on Rails]] framework for developing web applications

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*[[Tony Hoare|C. A. R. Hoare]] – first implementation of [[quicksort]], [[ALGOL 60]] compiler, [[Communicating sequential processes]]

*[[Louis Hodes]] – [[Lisp (programming language)|Lisp]], [[pattern recognition]], [[logic programming]], [[cancer research]]

*[[John Henry Holland]] – pioneer in what became known as [[Geneticgenetic algorithm|genetic algorithms]]s, developed [[Holland's schema theorem]], [[Learning classifier system|Learning Classifier Systems]]

*[[Allen Holub]] – author and public speaker, [[Agile Manifesto]] signatory

*[[Bri Holt]] - founder of [[Vidmeter]] and [[Engrade]]

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*[[Ben Horowitz]] – [[Netscape]] product manager and [[Opsware]] co-founder and CEO

*[[Paul Hudak]] – [[Haskell]] language design, textbooks on it and [[computer music]]

*[[Tom Hudson (programmer)|Tom Hudson]] – [[Autodesk 3ds Max|3D Studio]], [[Cyber Studio|CAD-3D]], [[DEGAS (software)|DEGAS]]

*[[David A. Huffman]] – created the [[Huffman coding]]; a compression algorithm

*[[Roger Hui]] – co-authored [[J (programming language)|J]]

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*[[Miguel de Icaza]] – [[GNOME]] project leader, initiated [[Mono (software)|Mono]] project

*[[Jean Ichbiah]] – [[Ada (programming language)]]

*[[Roberto Ierusalimschy]] – [[Lua (programming language)|Lua]] leading architect

*[[Dan Ingalls]] – cocreated [[Smalltalk]] and [[Bitblt]]

*[[Ross Ihaka]] – [[R (programming language)]]

*[[Geir Ivarsøy]] – cocreated [[Opera (web browser)|Opera]] web browser

*[[Kenneth E. Iverson|Ken Iverson]] – [[APL (programming language)|APL]], [[J (programming language)|J]]

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*[[Ted Kaehler]] – contributions to [[Smalltalk]], [[Squeak]], [[HyperCard]]

*[[Laxmikant Kale]] – [[Charm++]]

*[[Poul-Henning Kamp]] – [[MD5]] password hash algorithm, FreeBSD [[GEOM]] and [[GBDE]], part of [[Unix File System|UFS2]], [[FreeBSD Jail]]s, [[malloc]] and the [[Beerware]] license

*[[Mitch Kapor]] – [[Lotus 1-2-3]], founded [[Lotus Development Corporation]]

*[[Jawed Karim]] – co-founded [[YouTube]] and part of the [[PayPal Mafia]]

*[[Michael Kass]] – [[Active contour model]]

*[[Phil Katz]] – created [[Zip (file format)]], authored [[PKZIP]]

*[[Ted Kaehler]] – contributions to [[Smalltalk]], [[Squeak]], [[HyperCard]]

*[[Alan Kay]] – [[Smalltalk]], [[Dynabook]], [[Object-oriented programming]], [[Squeak]]

*[[Mel Kaye]] – [[LGP-30]] and [[RPC-4000]] machine code programmer at [[Royal McBee]] in the 1950s, famed as "[[Real Programmer]]" in [[the Story of Mel]]

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*[[Samuel J. Leffler]] – [[Berkeley Software Distribution|BSD]], [[HylaFAX|FlexFAX]], [[LibTIFF]], [[Comparison of open-source wireless drivers#FreeBSD|FreeBSD Wireless Device Drivers]]

*[[Rasmus Lerdorf]] – original creator of [[PHP]]

*[[Xavier Leroy]] — [[OCaml]] and [[CompCert]]

*[[Michael Lesk]] – [[Lex (software)|Lex]]

*[[Gordon Letwin]] – architected [[OS/2]], authored [[High Performance File System]] (HPFS)

*[[Max Levchin]] – co-founder of [[PayPal]]

*[[Jochen Liedtke]] – [[microkernel]] [[operating system]]s [[Eumel]], [[L3 microkernel|L3]], [[L4 microkernel family|L4]]

*[[Charles H. Lindsey]] – [[IFIP Working Group 2.1|IFIP WG 2.1]] member, ''Revised Report on [[ALGOL 68]]''

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*[[Alexey Pajitnov]] – created game [[Tetris]] on [[Electronika 60]]

*[[Seymour Papert]] – [[Logo (programming language)]]

*[[Tony Parisi (software developer)|Tony Parisi]] – [[Virtual Reality Modeling Language]] (VRML)

*[[David Park (computer scientist)|David Park]] (1935–1990) – first [[Lisp (programming language)|Lisp]] implementation, expert in fairness, program schemas, [[bisimulation]] in [[concurrent computing]]

*[[Mike Paterson]] – [[algorithm]]s, [[analysis of algorithms]] (complexity)

*[[Tim Paterson]] – authored [[86-DOS]] (QDOS)

*[[Bruce Perens]] – co-found of the [[Open Source Initiative]] and original author of [[BusyBox]]

*[[Alan Perlis]] – first successful [[compiler]] and co-developed [[ALGOL]]

*[[Markus Persson]] – created Minecraft

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*[[Jean E. Sammet]] – [[FORMAC]], [[COBOL]]

*[[Chris Sawyer]] – developed ''[[RollerCoaster Tycoon (video game)|RollerCoaster Tycoon]]'' and the ''[[Transport Tycoon]]'' series

*[[David Sayre]] – one of the developers for [[Fortran]] and [[Coherent diffraction imaging]]

*[[Cher Scarlett]] – [[Apple Inc.|Apple]], [[Webflow]], [[Blizzard Entertainment]], [[World Wide Technology]], and [[USA Today]]

*[[Bob Scheifler]] – [[X Window System]], [[Jini]]

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*[[Dave Winer]] – developed [[XML-RPC]], Frontier scripting language

*[[Niklaus Wirth]] – [[ALGOL W]], [[IFIP Working Group 2.1|IFIP WG 2.1]] member, [[Pascal (programming language)|Pascal]], [[Modula-2]], [[Oberon (programming language)|Oberon]]

*[[Stephen Wolfram]] – created [[Mathematica]], [[Wolfram Alpha]], [[Wolfram Language]]

*[[Don Woods (programmer)|Don Woods]] – [[INTERCAL]], [[Colossal Cave Adventure]]

*[[Philip Woodward]] – [[ambiguity function]], [[sinc function]], [[Dirac comb|comb operator, rep operator]], [[ALGOL 68-R]]

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==See also==

*[[List of computer scientists]]

*[[List of computer magazines]] and [[List of computer books]]

*[[List of computer science journals]] and [[List of software programming journals]]

*[[List of computing people]]

*[[List of members of the National Academy of Sciences (computer and information sciences)]]

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*[[List of programming language researchers]]

*[[List of Russian programmers]]

*[[List of Turing Award laureates]]

*[[List of video game industry people#Programming|List of video game industry people]] (programming)

*[[Cypherpunk#Notable cypherpunks|Notable cypherpunks]]

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