Vint Cerf
American computer scientist who co-designed the TCP/IP protocols and internet architecture with Bob Kahn, earning the ACM Turing Award in 2004 and the title father of the internet.
People
The inventors and builders behind the languages and the tools.
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Lawrence Lessig
Legal scholar, co-founder of Creative Commons, and author of Code and Free Culture; the leading advocate of the free-culture movement, which extended free-software ideas about openness and sharing into law and culture.
Andy Rubin
Andy Rubin co-founded Danger and Android Inc., then led the Android platform at Google after its 2005 acquisition. He was the public voice of Android's 2007 unveiling.
Jeff Atwood
Programmer and writer behind the Coding Horror blog, co-founder of Stack Overflow with Joel Spolsky in 2008, and later co-founder of the open-source discussion platform Discourse.
Brendan Gregg
Brendan Gregg is a performance engineer who invented the flame graph, pioneered eBPF as an observability technology, and codified a widely used methodology for systems performance analysis across Sun, Netflix, and Intel.
Scott Forstall
Apple software executive who led the creation of iPhone OS (later iOS) and the App Store, and who left Apple in 2012 after the Apple Maps controversy.
Robert Metcalfe
Co-inventor of Ethernet at Xerox PARC, founder of 3Com, author of Metcalfe's Law, and recipient of the 2022 ACM A.M. Turing Award.
Bram Moolenaar
Dutch programmer who created and for decades maintained the Vim text editor, distributed it as charityware to fund a children's project in Uganda, and died in 2023.