Computer scientists and programmers who created programming languages, operating systems, databases, internet protocols and other foundations of software. A person belongs here when the cited article credits the person with software, a language or a software method. It excludes designers of computer hardware, who sit in the hardware and network group. The group is one of the groupings of engineers under this engineering field in the Technology Atlas, and each member keeps its own entry with its own cited sources and its own place in the field.
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Brendan Eich (Wikipedia article)
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He created the JavaScript programming language
Margaret Hamilton (software engineer) (Wikipedia)
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she led the development of the on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo Guidance Computer
Grace Hopper (Wikipedia)
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She was a pioneer of computer programming.
Ada Lovelace (Wikipedia)
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Lovelace is often considered the first computer programmer.
Vint Cerf (Wikipedia)
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Vinton Gray Cerf (; born June 23, 1943) is an American Internet pioneer and is recognized as one of "the fathers of the Internet", sharing this title with TCP/IP co-developer Robert Kahn.
Tim Berners-Lee (Wikipedia)
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Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee (born 8 June 1955), also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, HTML, the URL system, and HTTP. He is a professorial research fellow at the University of Oxford and a professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Winston W. Royce (Wikipedia)
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Winston Walker Royce (August 15, 1929, June 7, 1995) was an American computer scientist and former director at Lockheed Software Technology Center in Austin, Texas.
Wikipedia: Steve Wilhite
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Stephen Earl Wilhite (March 3, 1948, March 14, 2022) was an American computer scientist who worked at CompuServe and was the engineering lead on the team that created the GIF image file format in 1987.
Abhay Bhushan (Wikipedia)
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Bhushan has been a major contributor to the development of the Internet TCP/IP architecture, and is the author of the File Transfer Protocol (which he started working on while he was a student at MIT) and the early versions of email standards.
Guido van Rossum (Wikipedia)
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Guido van Rossum (Dutch: [ˈxidoː vɑn ˈrɔsʏm]; born 31 January 1956) is a Dutch programmer.
Bob Kahn (Wikipedia)
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first proposed the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the Internet Protocol (IP)
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