Computer Programmers
9 profiles
Technology
Larry Wall
Linguist-programmer who created the Perl programming language
Born 1954
Technology
Ward Cunningham
Programmer who invented the wiki
Born 1949
Technology
Ray Tomlinson
Programmer who sent the first networked email and chose the @ sign
1941 – 2016
Technology
Rasmus Lerdorf
Danish-Canadian programmer who created PHP
Born 1968
Technology
Guido van Rossum
Dutch programmer who created the Python programming language
Born 1956
Eric Bina
Programmer who co-wrote the Mosaic browser and co-founded Netscape
Born 1964
Science
Dorothy Vaughan
NASA mathematician and the first Black supervisor at NACA
1910 – 2008
Technology
Brendan Eich
Creator of JavaScript and co-founder of Mozilla and Brave
Born 1961
Technology
Aaron Swartz
Programmer and activist who helped create RSS, Reddit and Creative Commons
1986 – 2013