Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie born: 1941 in Bronxville, New York description: Develloper of the Unix Operating System and writer of the C programming language. Homelink lookup on Wikipedia more images email: dmr@NOSPAM.bell-labs.com | |
Kenneth Thompson born: 1943 in New Orleans, Louisiana description: Co-develloper of the Unix Operating System, writer of the B programming language and Pascal language. lookup on Wikipedia more images | |
Brian W. Kernighan description: Co-develloper of the Unix Operating System, Co-develloper of the C programming language and the K in the AWK programming language (the other AWK guys where: Alfred V. [A]ho, Peter J. [W]einberger). Homelink, Homelink at Bell Labs lookup on Wikipedia more images | |
Donald E. Knuth born: 1938 imaginary presentation: Richard M. Stallman, Linus Torvalds, and Donald E. Knuth engage in a discussion on whose impact on the computerized world was the greatest. Stallman: "God told me I have programmed the best editor in the world!" Torvalds: "Well, God told *me* that I have programmed the best operating system in the world!" Knuth: "Wait, wait - I never said that..." Homelink lookup on Wikipedia | |
Andrew S. Tanenbaum born: 1944 description: Professor at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam in The Netherlands on computer architecture, operating systems and networks. Creator of minix and amoeba OS. Best Know for the early and heavy discussion with Linus following the quote "Linux is obsolete!". Homelink lookup on Wikipedia email: ast@NOSPAM.cs.vu.nl | |
Bill Joy born: 1955 description: Started out at Berkeley (worked on the paging system of BSD), creator of the sadistic vi editor [which we all love], creator of the c-shell and co-founder / Chief Scientist of Sun Microsystems. lookup on Sunsite lookup on Wikipedia | |
M. Douglas McIlroy alias: Doug description: Engineer, mathematician, and programmer, responsible for stuff like: Unix pipes, software component concept and several Unix programs. Retired in 1997 from Bell Laboratories. Bio Homelink lookup on Wikipedia email: mcilroy@NOSPAM.dartmouth.edu | |
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Miguel de Icaza born: 1973 in Mexico City description: De Icaza's co-founded the company Helix Code (=Ximian) and sells Gnome service and support. Companylink lookup on Wikipedia more images email: miguel@NOSPAM.ximian.com | |
Larry Wall born: 1954 in Los Angeles description: Perl creator and Guru extra-ordinaire. Homelink lookup on Wikipedia more images email: larry@NOSPAM.wall.org | |
Linus Benedict Torvalds born: 1969 in Helsinki description: Ever heard of the Linux Operating System? Homelink lookup on Wikipedia more images email: torvalds@NOSPAM.transmeta.com | |
Eric S. Raymond alias: ESR born: 1957 in Boston, Massachusetts description: "Open Source" poster boy, co-founder of the Open Source Initiative, writer of the book "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" and keeper of "The Jargon File". Homelink lookup on Wikipedia more images email: esr@NOSPAM.thyrsus.com | |
Bruce Perens description: Co-founder of the Open Source Initiative, former Debian Project Leader, primary author of the Open Source Definition and Hewlett-Packard senior OSS strategist. Homelink lookup on Wikipedia more images email: bruce@NOSPAM.perens.com | |
Richard Matthew Stallman alias: RMS born: 1953 in Manhattan description: Founder of the Free Software Foundation and last standing MIT AI-labs hacker. This guy gave up is life for its pricipples - well known as "not an easy person", but he deserves the respect to the fullest! Homelink, Sitelink lookup on Wikipedia more images email: rms@NOSPAM.gnu.org | |
Alan Cox description: Linux kernel developer No.2 (or "the *other* No.1"), extremely gifted debugger and RedHat employee. Sitelink lookup on Wikipedia more images email: alan.cox@NOSPAM.linux.org | |
Jon "Maddog" Hall description: Software Engineer, President/Executive Director of Linux International and godfather of Linus daughter. Biolink more images email: maddog@NOSPAM.li.org or maddog@NOSPAM.usenix.org | |
Dave S. Miller description: Currently working at RedHat. Does a large amount of work on the Sparc port, set-up and maintaines the VGER CVS tree (unofficial playground for patch feeding to Linus, stuff like the Sparc port and the original Linux kernel mailing list). | |
Theodore Y. Ts'o cname: Ted description: Currently working at IBM. Ted is one of the Senior Trusted Lieutenants of Linus who has a lot going on, even outside the Linux world. see also lkml old homelink, current homelink (i guess...) email: tytso@NOSPAM.mit.edu | |
Larry McVoy description: Larry came from SUN Microsystems, is author of the sourceware document and founder of a startup called BitMover Inc. Bitmover's main product "BitKeeper Source Management software" is mainly written for Linus Thorvalds after the "Linus doesn't scale" and VGER issue back in 1998. Homelink, Personal Homelink Bitkeeper description in lkml. | |
Brian Behlendorf description: Brian founded CollabNet, with O'Reilly & Associates, in July 1999. He is also co-founder and member on The Board of Directors of The Apache Software Foundation. Homelink email: brian@NOSPAM.behlendorf.com | |
Stephen C. Tweedie description: Currently working at RedHat. Owner of ext3 filesystem. Graduated Ph.D. December 1999. | |
Jamie Zawinski aias: jwz description: Founder of XEmacs (out of Lucid Emacs which is a split from GNU Emacs), co-creator / develloper of Mozilla Dot Org during the first year. Became disillusioned with the Mozilla project, resigned from Netscape Communications Corporation in 1999 and started running the DNA Lounge nightclub in San Francisco. Finaly: this is why Jamie thinks "why cooperation with RMS is impossible". Homelink lookup on Wikipedia email: jwz@NOSPAM.jwz.org | |
Furthermore we have: Kurt Garloff, Cort Dougan, Martin Mares, Geert Uyterhoeven, Paul Vixie .., Eric allman .., Larry Augustin (CEO VA_Research), Tim O'Reilly (duh), Tridgel andrew (original Samba author), Guido van Rossum (Python), Michael Tiemann (Cygnus Solutions founder), John Ousterhout (creator of TCL) .. | |
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Rob Pike: 1st bitmap, Plan9 Ron Rivest: The "R" in RSA Gene Spafford: security, COAST supervisor Robert (Bob) Young: RedHat CEO Seymour Cray: Set the next level for Supercomputing, programmed its OS in octal Steve Jobs: Next, Apple mac, OSX William & Lynn Jolits: first porters of BSD to x386, later spiniffs became Net/Free/Open BSD. Dave Stutz: implementor of Microsoft's shared source version of the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) | |
(not really Unix but still wanted to add these...) | |
Sir Arthur C. Clarke born: 1917 in Minehead, Somerset, Great Britain description: Inventor of the geostationary satellite and sience fiction author most famous for his book "2001: A Space Odyssey". Website lookup on Wikipedia more images | |
Timothy J. Berners-Lee cname: Tim born: 1955 in London, England description: Inventor of the World Wide Web (based on a paper from Arthur C. Clarke) while working at CERN, using hypertext (see: Vannevar Bush and Ted Nelson), now the overall Director of the W3C. W3C Biolink more images email: timbl@NOSPAM.w3.org |
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