Authors
42 profiles
Technology
Brian Kernighan
Canadian computer scientist who co-wrote The C Programming Language and co-created AWK
Born 1942
Technology
Larry Wall
Linguist-programmer who created the Perl programming language
Born 1954
Technology
Kōnosuke Matsushita
Founder of Panasonic, Japan’s “god of management”
1894 – 1989
Technology
Kevin Scott
Microsoft’s chief technology officer who brokered its OpenAI partnership
Technology
Kevin Mitnick
Once America’s most-wanted hacker, later a security consultant
1963 – 2023
Technology
Kent Beck
Creator of extreme programming and pioneer of test-driven development
Born 1961
Technology
Kai-Fu Lee
Taiwanese AI pioneer and investor who led Google China and founded 01.AI
Born 1961
Technology
Joy Buolamwini
Computer scientist who exposed bias in facial recognition and founded the Algorithmic Justice League
Science
Joseph Weizenbaum
MIT computer scientist who created ELIZA and became a critic of AI
1923 – 2008
Technology
John Resig
Creator of the jQuery JavaScript library
Born 1984
Technology
John Doerr
Kleiner Perkins venture capitalist who backed Google and Amazon and popularised OKRs
Born 1951
Jeffrey Ullman
Stanford computer scientist and textbook author on compilers, databases and algorithms
Born 1942
Technology
Jef Raskin
Apple interface expert who started the Macintosh project
1943 – 2005
Technology
Uri Levine
Israeli co-founder of the navigation app Waze
Technology
Tom Siebel
Founder of Siebel Systems and C3.ai
Born 1952
Technology
Tim O'Reilly
Tech publisher who popularised the terms “open source” and “Web 2.0”
Born 1954
Technology
Ted Nelson
Visionary who coined the words “hypertext” and “hypermedia”
Born 1937
Science
Stuart Russell
Berkeley professor who co-wrote the leading AI textbook and campaigns for safe AI
Technology
Sheryl Sandberg
Former Facebook COO and author of Lean In
Born 1969
Technology
Rob Pike
Canadian programmer who co-created the Go language and UTF-8
Technology
Reshma Saujani
Founder of Girls Who Code and Moms First
Born 1975
Technology
Reid Hoffman
Co-founder of LinkedIn and influential Silicon Valley investor
Born 1967
Science
Ray Kurzweil
Inventor and futurist known for predicting the technological singularity
Born 1948
Technology
Peter Thiel
PayPal co-founder, Palantir co-founder and first outside investor in Facebook
Born 1967