Subject: [clug] Who's famous in the 80's and 2000's?

ishwor ishwor at posix.algorithmfreaks.com
Sun Jan 11 13:55:11 GMT 2009


Hi all,

Adam Jenkins wrote:
> 
>> Today I was trying to think of the 'leading lights' in computing for
>> each of the decades its been around.
> 
> My 2c: John Lions, Tim Berners-Lee, Larry Wall, William Jolitz, Chris
> Demetriou, Theo de Raadt, Adam Glass, Charles M. Hannum, Bruce Schneier,
> Eugene Spafford, W. Richard Stevens, Andrzej Goscinski, Larry Page,
> Sergey Brin, James Gosling, Marc Andreessen and Jamie Zawinski.  Uh I'm
> sure some of them were 80s/00s!

Legends -
Alan Kay, Dan Ingalls, Adele Goldberg, Ted Kaehler, Scott Wallace, Brian Kernighan,
Dennis Ritchie, Bjarne Stroustrup, Greg "groggy" Lemis,  Guido Van Rossum, Dug Song,
Halvar Flake.

New kids on the block -
Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto, Roger Dingledine, Paul Syverson, Dave Aitel,
Daniel J. Bernstein, Gordon "Fyodor" Lyon.

Regards







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