Niklaus Emil Wirth was a Swiss computer scientist born on February 15, 1934, and he died on January 1, 2024. He created several programming languages, including Pascal. He also helped introduce important ideas in software engineering.
Donald Ervin Knuth (born January 10, 1938) is an American computer scientist and mathematician. He is a retired professor at Stanford University. He received the ACM Turing Award in 1974, which is often called the Nobel Prize of computer science.
Edsger Wybe Dijkstra ( / ˈ d aɪ k s t r ə / DYKE -strə ; Dutch: [ˈɛtsxər ˈʋibə ˈdɛikstraː] ; 11 May 1930 – 6 August 2002) was a Dutch computer scientist, programmer, mathematician, and writer of science essays. He was born in Rotterdam, Netherlands, and studied mathematics, physics, and theoretical physics at the University of Leiden. Adriaan van Wijngaarden gave him a job as the first computer programmer in the Netherlands at the Mathematical Centre in Amsterdam.
Andrew Stuart Tanenbaum (born March 16, 1944), sometimes known as AST, is an American-born Dutch computer scientist and retired professor of computer science at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands. He created MINIX, a free operating system similar to Unix, designed for teaching purposes. He has also written several widely used computer science textbooks.
Richard Matthew Stallman (born March 16, 1953), also known as rms, is an American free software advocate and programmer. He works to ensure software is shared in a way that allows users to use, study, distribute, and change it freely. Software that provides these freedoms is called free software.
Linus Benedict Torvalds was born on December 28, 1969. He is a software engineer from Finland and the United States. Since 1991, he has been the creator and main developer of the Linux kernel.
Brendan Eich ( / ˈ aɪ k / EYEK ; born July 4, 1961) is an American computer programmer and technology leader. He developed the JavaScript programming language and helped start the Mozilla project, the Mozilla Foundation, and the Mozilla Corporation. He worked as the chief technical officer of the Mozilla Corporation before becoming its chief executive officer.
Larry Arnold Wall was born on September 27, 1954. He is an American computer programmer, linguist, and author. He is known for creating the Perl programming language and the patch tool.
Yukihiro Matsumoto (まつもとゆきひろ, Matsumoto Yukihiro) was born on April 14, 1965. He is also known as Matz. He is a Japanese computer scientist and software programmer.
Rasmus Lerdorf (Danish: [ˈleɐ̯ˌtɒˀf]; born November 22, 1968) is a Danish-Canadian programmer. He helped create and played a key role in starting the PHP programming language. He wrote the first two versions of the language and worked with other programmers to develop later versions.