Authors

Peter Thiel

PayPal co-founder, Palantir co-founder and first outside investor in Facebook

Born 1967

Peter Norvig

Google’s former director of research and co-author of the leading AI textbook

Born 1956

Nathan Myhrvold

Microsoft’s first CTO, founder of Intellectual Ventures and author of Modernist Cuisine

Born 1959

Mustafa Suleyman

DeepMind co-founder who now leads Microsoft AI

Grady Booch

Software engineer who co-created the Unified Modeling Language

Born 1955

Fred Brooks

IBM System/360 manager and author of The Mythical Man-Month

1931 – 2022

Frank Slootman

Dutch-American executive who led Snowflake’s record IPO

Eric S. Raymond

Author of The Cathedral and the Bazaar and co-founder of the Open Source Initiative

Born 1957

Donald Knuth

Author of The Art of Computer Programming and creator of the TeX typesetting system

Born 1938

David Heinemeier Hansson

Danish programmer who created Ruby on Rails and co-owns 37signals

Born 1979

Chris Hughes

Facebook co-founder who ran Barack Obama’s online campaign

Born 1983

Bruce Schneier

Cryptographer and security expert known for Applied Cryptography

Born 1963

Biz Stone

Twitter co-founder and creative director

Born 1974

Ben Horowitz

Co-founder of the venture firm Andreessen Horowitz and author of The Hard Thing About Hard Things

Born 1966

Andy Hertzfeld

Software wizard of the original Macintosh team

Born 1953

Andy Grove

Hungarian-born Intel CEO who turned it into the world’s largest chipmaker

1936 – 2016

Andrew S. Tanenbaum

Computer scientist who created MINIX and wrote classic textbooks

Born 1944

Adam Osborne

Pioneer of the portable computer with the Osborne 1

1939 – 2003