1). Dennis Ritchie
Dennis
Mac Alistair Ritchie was an American computer scientist who is credited
for shaping and pioneering the digital era. He created the most
commonly used C programming language that is used today in various
software applications, embedded system development, operating systems,
and has influenced most modern programming languages.
Dennis
also co-created the UNIX operating system. For his work, in 1983 he
received the Turing Award from the ACM, the Hamming Medal in 1990 from
the IEEE and in 1999 the National Medal of Technology from President
Clinton. He was the head of Lucent Technologies System Software Research
Department when he retired in 2007. He passed away on October 12, 2011
causing the Fedora 16 Linux distribution to be released in his memory.
2. Linus Torvalds
Linus
Benedict Torvalds s a Finnish American software engineer, who was the
principal driving force behind the development of the Linux kernel. Its
creation itself is attributed towards him and he later became the chief
architect of the Linux kernel, and is now the project’s coordinator.
Linus
was honored with the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize by the Technology
Academy Finland because of his creation of a new open source operating
system for computers leading to the wide spread use of Linux kernel. He
also created the ever popular distributed version control system called
Git in 2005,as well as the diving log software Subsurface.
3. Bjarne Stroustrup
Bjarne
Stroustrup is a Danish computer scientist who is credited for the
creation and the development of the widely used and highly successful
C++ programming language. He not only invented it, but also evolved it,
all by himself, by writing its early definitions, producing its first
implementation, formulating its design criteria, designing all its major
facilities, processing extension proposals for standards committee and
its standard textbook.
Bjarne is currently
working as a Professor and holder of the College of Engineering Chair in
Computer Science at Texas A&M University.
4).Tim Berners-Lee
Sir
Timothy John “Tim” Berners-Lee is a British computer scientist who is
renowned all across the globe because of his creation of the World Wide
Web as well as the implementation of the first successful communication
between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the
Internet in November, 1989.
Tim has won
multiple awards for his pioneering ingeniousness such as becoming one of
only six members of the World Wide Web Hall of Fame and one of five
Internet and Web pioneers who have been awarded the inaugural Queen
Elizabeth Prize for Engineering. He is also the holder of the Founders
Chair at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
Laboratory.
5. Brian Kernighan
Brian
Wilson Kernighan is a Canadian computer scientist who worked at Bell
Labs alongside Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. He is the co-creator and
developer of UNIX. He is also co-author of the AWK and AMPL programming
languages. Kernighan is currently a Professor and the Undergraduate
Department Representative at the Computer Science Department of
Princeton University.
Kernighan became famous
by co-authoring the very first book on the C programming language and by
authoring many UNIX programs such as ditroff, and cron for Version 7
Unix. His other notable work include his popular criticisms for Pascal
called “Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language”.
6. Bill Gates
Arguably
one of the most popular computer programmers of all time, Bill Gates is
an American business magnate, computer programmer, PC pioneer,
investor, and philanthropist. He is the co-founder, ex-executive officer
and current chairman of Microsoft, which is the world’s largest
personal-computer software company. He is the best-known entrepreneurs
of the personal computer revolution and helped develop Windows, which is
the most used operating system in the world.
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