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==A==
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*[[Bruce Artwick]] – [[Microsoft Flight Simulator]]
*[[Jeremy Ashkenas]] – [[CoffeeScript]] programming language and [[Backbone.js]]
*[[Julian Assange]] –
*[[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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*[[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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*[[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 [[
*[[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]]
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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 [[
*[[Allen Holub]] – author and public speaker, [[Agile Manifesto]] signatory
*[[Bri Holt]] - founder of [[Vidmeter]] and [[Engrade]]
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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]]
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*[[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)
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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]]
[[Category:Computer programmers|!]]
[[Category:Lists of computer scientists|Programmers]]
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