James Arthur Gosling OC (born May 19, 1955) is a Canadian computer scientist. He is most famous for creating the Java programming language. In 2004, Gosling was chosen to join the National Academy of Engineering for designing and building the structure of the Java programming language and for helping to develop systems that manage computer windows.
Guido van Rossum (Dutch: [ˈxidoː vɑn ˈrɔsʏm]; born 31 January 1956) is a Dutch programmer. He created the Python programming language and was the “benevolent dictator for life” (BDFL) until he left the position on 12 July 2018. He continued to be a member of the Python Steering Council until 2019 and chose not to be considered for the 2020 election.
Bjarne Stroustrup (born December 30, 1950) is a Danish computer scientist known for creating the C++ programming language. He led the Large-scale Programming Research department at Bell Labs, was a professor of computer science at Texas A&M University, and worked for more than 10 years at Morgan Stanley while also serving as a visiting professor at Columbia University. Since 2022, he has been a full professor at Columbia University.
Malcolm Douglas McIlroy (born 1932) is an American mathematician, engineer, and programmer. As of 2019, he is an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Dartmouth College. McIlroy is best known for first suggesting the use of Unix pipelines and creating several Unix tools, including echo, spell, diff, sort, join, graph, speak, and tr.
Brian Wilson Kernighan (born January 30, 1942) is a Canadian computer scientist. He worked at Bell Labs and helped develop Unix with Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie, the creators of Unix. Kernighan became well known for writing a book about the C programming language with Dennis Ritchie.
Kenneth Lane Thompson (born February 4, 1943) is an American pioneer of computer science. Thompson worked at Bell Labs for most of his career. There, he designed and created the first Unix operating system.
Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie was born on September 9, 1941, and died around October 12, 2011. He was an American computer scientist who worked with his longtime colleague, Ken Thompson. Together, they developed the Unix operating system, the C programming language, and the B programming language.
William Nelson Joy was born on November 8, 1954. He is an American computer engineer and venture capitalist. In 1982, he helped start Sun Microsystems with Scott McNealy, Vinod Khosla, and Andy Bechtolsheim.
Michael John Muuss was born on October 16, 1958, and passed away on November 20, 2000. He was an American computer scientist who developed the free software called ping, which helps check computer networks. He also created the first interactive ray tracing program, a tool used to generate detailed images by simulating how light interacts with objects.
Stephen D. Crocker was born on October 15, 1944. He is an American who helped create the internet.