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Linus Torvalds invented the Linux operating system which is used to run the vast majority of computer servers connected to the Internet. Tor...

Linus Torvalds

Bill and John Ritchie hold a photograph of their late brother Dennis. Dennis Ritchie created the C programming language (perhaps the most wi...

Dennis Ritchie

Ken Thompson, co-creator of the unix operating system. While working at Bell Labs, Thompson designed and implemented the unix operating system ...

Ken Thompson

Eric Allman is a computer programmer who created the sendmail mail transport agent. The software allowed for the delivery of email to comput...

Eric Allman

Christine Peterson is a futurist and lecturer in the field of nanotechnology. Peterson coined the term “open source” in 1998 as part of a co...

Christine Peterson

Vint Cerf is one of “the fathers of the Internet”, a title he shares with Bob Kahn due to their co-invention of TCP/IP — the fundamental com...

Vint Cerf

Judy Estrin is a serial entrepreneur, technology executive, and computer scientist. As a graduate student at Stanford University, Estrin wor...

Judy Estrin

Brian Kernighan helped to develop the Unix operating system while at Bell Labs. He is a co-author of the AWK programming language as well as...

Brian Kernighan

Mitchell Baker is Co-Founder and Chairwoman of Mozilla — maker of the free and open source Firefox web browser used by hundreds of millions ...

Mitchell Baker

Larry Wall is the inventor of the Perl programming language. Perl is a popular scripting language which gained immense popularity in the lat...

Larry Wall

Tim O’Reilly is a writer and publisher who helped popularize the term “open source”. His company, O’Reilly Media, has produced many of the s...

Tim O’Reilly

Limor Fried is an electrical engineer and software developer best known for her work on open source hardware. Fried helped define the open s...

Limor Fried

Andi Gutmans is an Israeli computer programmer best known for his work on the design and implementation of the PHP programming language. Gut...

Andi Gutmans

Bill Joy is a computer scientist and venture capitalist best known for creating the Berkeley version of the UNIX operating system, known as ...

Bill Joy

Bdale Garbee is an open source developer and evangelist best known for his contributions to Debian — an open source operating system and one...

Bdale Garbee

Jim Gettys is a computer programmer and one of the original developers of the X Window system. He is also the editor of the HTTP/1.1 communi...

Jim Gettys

Elizabeth Feinler is an information scientist best known for creating and running the Network Information Center (NIC) for the ARPANET — the...

Elizabeth Feinler

David Korn is the author of the Korn shell (ksh) which he created while working on Unix at Bell Labs. The Korn shell was developed to improv...

David Korn

Parisa Tabriz is a computer security expert best known for her work on Google’s Chrome web browser and its underlying open source Chromium p...

Parisa Tabriz

Jordan Hubbard is a software developer who co-founded the FreeBSD project which provides a free and open source version of the BSD operating...

Jordan Hubbard

Karen Sandler is an attorney and free software activist who has worked with many non-profit organizations including the Software Freedom Con...

Karen Sandler

Dan Geer is a computer security analyst and former head of system programming for the Athena Project at MIT in the 1980’s. Geer’s work at MI...

Dan Geer

Katherine Maher is the Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation — the non-profit organization that operates the free and open encyclop...

Katherine Maher

John Ousterhout is a professor of computer science at Stanford University and the designer of the TcL programming language and the Tk toolki...

John Ousterhout

David Rosenthal is a computer scientist who developed the Inter-Client Communication Conventions Manual (ICCCM or I39L) protocol for the X W...

David S. H. Rosenthal

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