[zeuux-universe] IT界的技术精英们

Bill Xu bill at zeuux.org
Wed Mar 26 13:15:05 CST 2008


在Alex推荐的URL上看到了下面的一个列表,讲述的都是IT界的技术精英,觉得有 
趣,和大家分享。


Here are the two hundred eighty-four names that have been suggested to 
me as people I might want to interview. Thanks to everyone who submitted 
names. Thanks also to the people who took the time to try their hand at 
sorting the list; their efforts provide the measure of popularity used 
to sort the list. If your name is on this list please don’t be insulted 
if you feel the brief description I’ve given here misrepresents your 
life’s work or if your name is distressingly low down on the popularity 
ranking. While I am interested in what the wisdom of the crowd has to 
say about who’d be interesting interview subjects, in the end I’ll 
follow my own council when selecting who to approach for interviews. 
There are several folks well down on the popularity ranking who I’d love 
to have a chance to interview.

Now that I’m getting ready to start contacting potential interviewees, 
I’m really getting going on my research. If you click on any of the 
names in this list you can see what information I’ve got so far and can 
help me out by adding to it if you want. As I mentioned on the front 
page, at this point the best way to make a case for someone you really 
think I should interview is to add information about them so I have the 
best chance to realize why they’d be interesting to talk to. If you want 
to add a more general comment feel free, as always, to send me email or 
to leave a comment on the comments page.

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# Name Description

QUOTE:
1   Peter Norvig    Director of Research at Google and author of the 
standard text on AI.  
2   Alan Kay    Inventor of Smalltalk. Coined the term "object-oriented 
programming".  
3   Guy Steele  Co-inventor of Scheme and part of the Common Lisp Gang 
of Five. Currently working on Fortress.  
4   Donald Knuth    Author of The Art of Computer Programming and TeX  
5   Gerald Jay Sussman  Co-creator of Scheme and co-author of The 
Structure And Interpretation of Computer Programs.  
6   John McCarthy   Invented Lisp  
7   John Carmack    Founder of id Software; lead programmer of Doom, 
Quake, and others.  
8   Joe Armstrong   Inventor of Erlang  
9   Dennis Ritchie  Invented C and contributed to development of UNIX  
10  Ken Thompson    Inventor of UNIX  
11  Brian Kernighan     The K in AWK and K&R. Author of the original 
"hello, world" program.  
12  Guido van Rossum    Invented Python  
13  Linus Torvalds  Wrote and maintains Linux kernel. Wrote GIT version 
control system.  
14  Steve Wozniak   Wrote most of the original Apple II software.  
15  Bill Joy    Wrote BSD TCP/IP stack, vi  
16  Simon Peyton Jones  Co-inventor of Haskell and lead designer of 
Glasgow Haskell Compiler.  
17  Alan Cox    One of Linus Torvalds's main lieutenants. Wrote Linux 
TCP/IP code.  
18  Larry Wall  Invented Perl  
19  Jamie Zawinski  Author of XEmacs and early Netscape/Mozilla hacker.  
20  Theo de Raadt   Founder of OpenBSD project. Original author of 
OpenSSH.  
21  Robert Morris   Wrote the Internet Worm and co-founded Viaweb with 
Paul Graham  
22  Ward Cunningham     Wrote the first Wiki and FIT.  
23  Edi Weitz   Lisp library hacker extraordinaire. Co-organizer of the 
European Common Lisp Meetings 2005 and 2006  
24  Chuck Moore     Invented Forth  
25  Tim Sweeney     Founder of Epic Games. Wrote the Unreal Engine.  
26  Brendan Eich    Invented Javascript  
27  Fabrice Bellard     Wrote QEMU, TinyCC, FFMPEG; Winner of 2001 IOCCC  
28  Paul Graham     Lisp hacker and author.  
29  Yukihiro Matsumoto  Invented Ruby  
30  Dan Bernstein   Wrote djbns and qmail  
31  Andrew Tridgell     Wrote Samba file server and co-invented rsync 
algorithm  
32  Andy Gavin  Co-founder of Naughty Dog software. Wrote GOAL which was 
used to develop Jak and Daxter.  
33  Brad Fitzpatrick    Wrote LiveJournal, OpenID, memcached, Perlbal  
34  Andrew Tanenbaum    Created Minix, advocate for micro-kernels.  
35  Michael Abrash  Optimization expert  
36  Bram Cohen  Wrote BitTorrent  
37  Miguel de Icaza     Wrote GNOME and Mono  
38  Hal Abelson     Abelson of Abelson and Sussman. MIT professor.  
39  Rob Pike    Author of first bitmap windowing system for Unix. Worked 
on Plan 9. Now works at Google.  
40  Richard Stallman    Wrote Emacs, gcc, and started the Free Software 
movement.  
41  Douglas Engelbart   Invented computer mouse  
42  Marvin Minsky   Artifical Intelligence researcher  
43  Audrey Tang     Leader of Pugs project to implement Perl 6 in Haskell  
44  Bruce Schneier  Security expert. Creator of Twofish block cipher.  
45  Philip Greenspun    Author of Greenspun's Tenth Law and sometimes 
instructor at MIT  
46  Stephen Wolfram     Invented Mathematica  
47  James Gosling   Invented Java, NeWS windowing system.  
48  Erik Naggum     Lisp hacker  
49  Frances Allen   Pioneer in optimizing compilers. First woman to win 
Turing Award (2006) and first woman IBM fellow.  
50  Paul Buchheit   Creator of GMail  
51  Bjarne Stroustrup   Invented C++  
52  Justin Frankel  Wrote Winamp, NSIS, and Gnutella  
53  Anders Hejlsberg    Lead architect of C#, Architect of Delphi at 
Borland. Wrote what became Turbo Pascal  
54  Bill Gosper     One of the original MIT hackers. Worked on Lisp 
machines, Maclisp, and Macsyma  
55  David Heinemeier Hansson    Invented Rails  
56  L. Peter Deutsch    Author of Ghostscript, Implemented Smalltalk-80 
at Xerox PARC and Lisp 1.5 on PDP-1  
57  Andy Hertzfeld  Key Macintosh developer  
58  Whitfield Diffie    Discovered principle of public key cryptography  
59  Wil Shipley     Wrote Delicious Monster. Founded Omni Group  
60  Raymond Chen    Worked on OS/2, Windows 95, and Direct X  
61  Charles Simonyi     Invented Hungarian notation. Original author of 
Microsoft Word. Head of the IP project at Microsoft, now running 
intentsoft.com  
62  Richard Gabriel     Lisper and Poet. Currently a Distinguished 
Engineer at IBM. Chair of OOPSLA 2007.  
63  Sergey Brin     Founded Google  
64  Martin Fowler   Chief Scientist at Thoughtworks. Author of 
Refactoring and many other books.  
65  Gregor Kiczales     Wrote Common Lisp MOP. Invented Aspect Oriented 
programming.  
66  Dan Ingalls     Smalltalk implementor and designer.  
67  Matt Dillon     FreeBSD hacker, founded DragonFly BSD project  
68  Steve Yegge     Blogger and Googler  
69  Why the lucky stiff     Core Ruby developer and free spirit  
70  Leslie Lamport  Distributed systems researcher and developer of LaTeX  
71  Xavier Leroy    Primary developer of OCaml. Wrote LinuxThreads 
threading package used in pre 2.6 Linux kernels  
72  Alexander Stepanov  Author of the Standard Template Library for C++  
73  Marc Andreessen     Co-wrote Mosaic. Founded Netscape.  
74  Douglas Crockford   JSON founder, JavaScript Architect at Yahoo!  
75  Larry Page  Founded Google  
76  Douglas McIlroy     Unix toolsmith; invented Unix pipelines  
77  Zed Shaw    Wrote Mongrel (Rails HTTP server)  
78  Bill Atkinson   Early Mac developer. Designed and implemented 
Hypercard  
79  David Cutler    Architect of VMS and Windows NT  
80  Danny Hillis    Founder of Thinking Machines  
81  Roy Fielding    One of the principle authors of HTTP specification. 
Invented REST. Co-founder of Apache project  
82  Olin Shivers    Comp Sci professor interested in Scheme and ML. 
Wrote scsh  
83  Aaron Swartz    Invented web.py  
84  Allison Randal  Architect of Parrot virtual machine  
85  Josh Bloch  Author of Java collections framework. Now at Google.  
86  Vinton Cerf     Father of TCP/IP  
87  Trevor Blackwell    Principal at Viaweb. Now founder and CEO of 
Anybots  
88  Mark Pilgrim    Wrote Universal Feed Parser. Author of Dive into 
Python and Dive into Accessibility.  
89  Van Jacobson    Redesigned TCP/IP flow control algorithms, saving 
the net from total collapse. Eponymous inventor of Van Jacobson TCP/IP 
header compres  
90  Bruce Momjian   Core PostgreSQL developer  
91  Henry Baker     One of the founder of Symbolics; comp sci. researcher  
92  Brad Cox    Invented Objective C  
93  Bill Gates  Wrote BASIC for Altair  
94  Jonathan Rees   Designed T dialect of Scheme and co-wrote Scheme 48  
95  Bertrand Meyer  Invented Eiffel  
96  Ivan Sutherland     Invented Sketchpad, precursor to modern GUIs  
97  Niklaus Wirth   Invented Pascal, Modula, Oberon  
98  Alex Martelli   Co-author of Python Cookbook and Author of Python in 
a Nutshell  
99  Philip Wadler   Professor of Theoretical Computer Science at the 
University of Edinburgh. Contributed to design of Java, Haskell, and 
XQuery.  
100     Mark Shuttleworth   Founded Thawte and Ubuntu project. 
Previously a Debian developer  
101     Tom Lane    Core PostgreSQL developer responsible for optimizer.  
102     Richard Hipp    Wrote sqlite embedded SQL database  
103     Ingo Molnar     Linux hacker, author of many Linux perfomance 
improvements.  
104     Bruce Eckel     Founding member of ANSI/ISO C++ committee. 
Author of Thinking in Java and Thinking in C++.  
105     Kent Pitman     Technical Editor of Common Lisp ANSI standard  
106     Richard Greenblatt  Main implementor of Maclisp on PDP-6. 
Co-founded Lisp Machines, Inc.  
107     Jeff Rubin  According to Richard Gabriel a "code-writing savant".  
108     Adrian Holovaty     Lead developer of Django  
109     Jon Bentley     Author of Programming Pearls books.  
110     Kent Beck   Creator of XP  
111     Bram Moolenaar  Wrote VIM (Vi IMproved)  
112     Tom Duff    Invented Duff's device and noted graphics programmer  
113     Dave Fox    Lisp hacker, directior of Lispworks Ltd.  
114     Marco Baringer  Common Lisp hacker, author of Uncommon Web  
115     Luke Gorrie     Lisp and Erlang hacker. Project lead for SLIME.  
116     Alain Colmerauer    Invented Prolog  
117     John Foderaro   Original author of Franz's Allegro Common Lisp  
118     Don Stewart     Haskell hacker  
119     Elizabeth Rather    Colleague of Chuck Moore and second ever 
Forth programmer  
120     Ka-Ping Yee     Python hacker extraordinaire.  
121     Jeff Dean   Google Fellow in Systems Infrastructure Group. 
Co-inventor of MapReduce.  
122     Tim Peters  Python hacker and author of Spambayes  
123     Rasmus Lerdorf  Invented PHP  
124     Alvy Ray Smith  Graphics pioneer. Worked at LucasFilm, helped 
found Pixar.  
125     Marshall Kirk McKusick  Designed Berkeley Fast File System.  
126     Steve Russell   One of John McCarthy's grad students. Brought 
Lisp to life by hand-coding EVAL in assembler. Wrote Spacewar.  
127     Damian Conway   Perl hacker and three time winner of the Larry 
Wall award. Wrote Lingua::Romana::Perligata and others.  
128     Ola Bini    Core JRuby developer  
129     Poul-Henning Kamp   FreeBSD kernel hacker  
130     Ellen Spertus   Head of Interdisciplinary Computer Science 
department at Mills College  
131     Wietse Venema   Wrote Postfix. Co-wrote Satan and TCT  
132     Charles Nutter  Principle JRuby developer  
133     Jim Hugunin     Original author of Iron Python, now at Microsoft 
working on dynamic languages on the CLR. Co-designer of AspectJ 
language, lead devent through 1.1 release.  
134     Roberto Ierusalimschy   Invented Lua  
135     Edward Feigenbaum   Father of Expert Systems  
136     Urs Holzle  Researcher behind Sun's HotSpot JVM technology.  
137     P.J. Plauger    Worked on first commercial C compiler  
138     Tom Lord    Scheme and C hacker. Wrote GNU Arch  
139     Erich Gamma     One of the Gang of Four  
140     Jarkko Oikarinen    Started IRC  
141     Mitchell Kapor  Founded Lotus  
142     Don Hopkins     Invented Pie Menus, working on One Laptop Per 
Child project.  
143     Paul Vixie  Wrote BIND  
144     Michael Feathers    XP guru  
145     Janus Friis     Founder of Joost, Skype, Kazaa  
146     John Ousterhout     Invented TCL  
147     Graham Nelson   Invented Inform language used to program 
interatvive fiction  
148     Eric Meijer     Architect in SQL server group at Microsoft 
working on combining functional programming with the CLR and SQL  
149     Udi Manber  VP of Engineering at Google. Co-author of Glimpse, 
Agrep, and Harvest search packages.  
150     Mark Zuckerberg     Founder and CEO of Facebook  
151     Scott McKay     Lisp and Dylan designer.  
152     Keith Packard   X Windows hacker, founded X.Org Server project  
153     Paul Allen  Co-founded Microsoft.  
154     Richard Kelsey  Co-wrote Scheme 48 and edited R5RS  
155     Amy Fowler  Core Java Swing developer  
156     Butler Lampson  Systems pioneer. Worked on Xerox's Alto.  
157     Dan Bricklin    Wrote Visicalc  
158     Nick Bradbury   Wrote HomeSite, TopStyle, and FeedDemon  
159     Ralph Johnson   One of the Gang of Four  
160     John Gilmore    Contributor to several GNU projects. Co-author 
of Bootstrap protocol which became DHCP. Founder of EFF, Cypherpunks 
mailing list, agnus solutions.  
161     Carla Schroder  Long-time Linux geek.  
162     Zack Rusin  Qt graphics guru  
163     Donald Chamberlin   Principle designer of SQL; ACM 
Intercollegiate Programming Contest judge, 1998-2005  
164     Rick Olsen  Core Rails developer, wrote Mephisto and Beast  
165     Joe Marshall    Lisp hacker  
166     Gavin King  Original author of Hibernate, JBoss Seam  
167     Martin Odersky  Invented Scala  
168     James Duncan Davidson   Started Apache Ant and Apache Tomcat 
projects. Author of Java Servlet API and Java API for XML processing 
J2EE specificatio
169     Richard Karp    Researcher in theory of algorithms  
170     Brian Behlendorf    Apache organizer  
171     Dan Farmer  Co-wrote Satan and TCT  
172     Roger Hui   Implementor of of J language  
173     Ray Ozzie   Main architect of Lotus Notes. Now Chief Software 
Architect at Microsoft.  
174     Scott Meyers    Author of Effective C++, More Effective C++, 
Effective STL  
175     Henry Spencer   Wrote Unix regex library later incorporated into 
Tcl and Perl. Co-wrote C News news server  
176     Steve Dekorte   Invented Io language.  
177     Jim Blinn   Graphics Fellow at Microsoft  
178     Evan Phoenix    Author of Rubinus compiler/virtual machine for 
Ruby  
179     Ray Tomlinson   Wrote first networked email system and gave us 
the @-sign in email addresses.  
180     Larry Osterman  Longtime Microsoftie  
181     Russ Cox    Worked on Plan 9. Represented U.S. at 1995 
International Olympiad in Informatics  
182     Paul 'Rusty' Russell    One of Linus Torvald's top deputies. 
Wrote ipchains and netfilter/iptables packet filtering code  
183     Peter Van Roy   Contributor to Mozart/Oz programming system. 
Author of Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming  
184     Matt Mackall    Wrote Mecurial version control system.  
185     Chris Wanstrath     Notable Rails programmer  
186     Niklas Zennstrom    Founder of Joost, Skype, Kazaa  
187     David Korn  Wrote the Korn shell  
188     Avi Bryant  Co-founder Dabble DB  
189     Barry Boehem    Software metrics guru  
190     Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen     Wrote Gnus and Gmane  
191     Jacob Kaplan-Moss   Django developer. Wrote Tivo apps in Python 
and now hacking Python on the PSP  
192     John Mashey     Early Unix hacker  
193     Keith Bostic    Worked on BSD at Berkeley and one of the 
original authors of BerkeleyDB  
194     Gavin Schmidt   Programmer on GISS climate modeling software.  
195     Robert Martin   Founder and CEO of Object Mentor. C++ and Agile 
methods expert.  
196     Adele Goldberg  Smalltalk designer and documenter.  
197     Dan Geer    Security expert  
198     Austin Meyer    Author of X-Plane and Space Combat flight 
simulators  
199     Neil Hodgson    Wrote Scintilla and SciTE  
200     Doug Lea    Concurrency expert and systems programmer.  
201     Brian Harvey    UC Comp Sci professor. Author of Berkeley Logo  
202     Paul Haeberli   Computer graphics researcher  
203     Rob McCool  Wrote NCSA HTTPd; drafted Common Gateway Interface 
specification  
204     Radia Perlman   Invented spanning-tree protocol  
205     Stefan Meyer-Kahlen     Author of Shredder chess program  
206     Alessandro Rubini   Linux kernel hacker  
207     Craig McClanahan    Original author of Apache Struts  
208     Will Crowther   Wrote Adventure and the inner packet processing 
loop of the original internet IMPs  
209     Marcus Ranum    Security expert and author of Firewall Toolkit 
and Network Flight Recorder  
210     Wouter van Oortmerssen  Game programmer and language designer  
211     Eric Allman     Wrote sendmail  
212     Andrew Hunt     Co-founder of Pragmatic Programmers  
213     Arthur Whitney  Invented A+ and K languages and wrote prototype 
of J language  
214     Dave Thomas     Co-founder of Pragmatic Programmers  
215     Dan Piponi  Graphics programmer and theorist.  
216     Peter Weinberger    The W in AWK  
217     Thomas Enebo    Principle JRuby developer  
218     Richard Helm    One of the Gang of Four  
219     Bob Scheifler   Led the development of X Windows while the X 
Consortium was at MIT  
220     Charles Hedrick     Lisp Unix hacker  
221     Guillaume Laforge   Groovy project lead  
222     Ilya Zakharevich    Major contributor to perl5 including a major 
reworking of the regex engine.  
223     John Vlissides  One of the Gang of Four  
224     Dominic Giampaolo   Wrote BeOS file system  
225     Salvatore Sanfilippo    Software developer and security expert  
226     Rod Johnson     Original author of Spring Framework  
227     Mathias Feist   Co-author of Fritz chess program.  
228     Sam Leffler     BSD hacker. Wrote FreeBSD wi-fi drivers  
229     Chris Torek     BSDI os hacker  
230     Mike Karels     System architect of BSD 4.3 and 4.4 releases.  
231     Jeff Mogul  HP Fellow working on networking performance. 
Contributed to HTTP 1.1 spec  
232     Rob Barnaby     Worked some on early Logo, wrote Word Star. Also 
did Stringcomp, an early string processing language.  
233     Eric Bina   Co-wrote Mosaic.  
234     Simon Willison  Django developer. Hacker Liason for Yahoo UK  
235     Frans Morsch    Co-author of Fritz chess program.  
236     John Harper     Wrote librep and the sawfish window manager  
237     Spencer Janssen     Wrote xmonad, a tiling window manager 
implemened in Haskell  
238     John Socha  Wrote many DOS software packages for Norton Computing  
239     Peter Karp  Responsible for the development of BioCyc  
240     Mark Maybee     Worked on ZFS DMU at Sun.  
241     Graeme Rocher   Grails project lead  
242     Dan Sugalski    Original architect of Parrot VM  
243     Peter Norton    Wrote the first version of the Norton Utilities  
244     Erik Benson     Cheif Janitorial Officer - Robot Coop  
245     Mark Fletcher   Founder Bloglines, egroups  
246     Graham Spencer  Co-founder Excite & Jot-Spot  
247     Mark Jason Dominus  Perl programmer; author of Higher Order Perl  
248     Sape Mullender  Member of Technical Staff, Lucent 
Technologies,Bell Labs Innovations, Computing Sciences Research, Murray 
Hill, New Jersey.  
249     Paul Mackerras  Samba developer  
250     Val Henson  Kernel hacker and file systems specialist.  
251     Greg Linden     Founder Findory & worked at Amazon  
252     Dick Wall   Co-host of the Java Posse podcast. Works at Google.  
253     Spencer Kimball     Co-wrote GIMP. Googler.  
254     Jeff Bonwick    Chief architect of ZFS  
255     Peter Mattis    Co-wrote GIMP. Googler.  
256     Bernie Cosell   One of the main software guys behind the 
original ARPANET IMP's and a master debugger.  
257     Shay Bushinsky  Co-author of Junior chess program.  
258     Dennis Crawley  DodgeBall  
259     Rainer Joswig   Contributes to CL-HTTP  
260     Biz Stone   Twitter  
261     Max Levchin     Co-founder Pay Pal & Slide  
262     Joel Reymont    Open Poker  
263     Jon Kleinberg   Cornell Comp. Sci. professor.  
264     Joel Spolsky    FogCreekSoftware  
265     Munjal Shah     Co-founder Riya  
266     Dierk Koenig.   Groovy, Grails contributor  
267     Peter-Paul Koch     Javascript guru. Maintains quirksmode website.  
268     Frank Heart     Managed the group that built the ARPANET.  
269     Amir Ban    Co-author of Junior chess program.  
270     Watts Humphrey  CMM guru.  
271     Rusty Bobrow    BBNer doing work in computational linguistics, 
speech recognition, and artificial intelligence.  
272     Simon Tatham    Author of PuTTY  
273     Thomas Knoll    Original creator of Photoshop.  
274     Eric Swildens   Founder Microline Software, Co-founder Speedera 
Networks  
275     Evan Williams   Twitter  
276     Dan Weinreb     Founder of Symbolics. Now at ITA.  
277     Robert Thau     Early Apache developer. Started Bianca Troll  
278     Chrilly Donninger   Author of the Hydra chess program.  
279     Matthew Ahrens  Works on ZFS in kernel group at Sun  
280     Michael C. Schatz   Author of a number of gene sequencing 
programs.  
281     Alex Russell    Created Dojo Javascript library  
282     Richard Fateman     Computer algebraist. Worked on MacSysma and 
Maxima  
283     Sam Stephenson  Created Prototype Javascript library  
284     Naval Ravikanth     Founder vast.com


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