CODERS at WORK

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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 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 , 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 or to leave a comment on the .

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#	Name	Description
1		Director of Research at Google and author of the standard text on AI.
2		Inventor of Smalltalk. Coined the term "object-oriented programming".
3		Co-inventor of Scheme and part of the Common Lisp Gang of Five. Currently working on Fortress.
4		Author of The Art of Computer Programming and TeX
5		Co-creator of Scheme and co-author of The Structure And Interpretation of Computer Programs.
6		Invented Lisp
7		Founder of id Software; lead programmer of Doom, Quake, and others.
8		Invented C and contributed to development of UNIX
9		Inventor of Erlang
10		Inventor of UNIX
11		The K in AWK and K&R. Author of the original "hello, world" program.
12		Invented Python
13		Wrote and maintains Linux kernel. Wrote GIT version control system.
14		Wrote most of the original Apple II software.
15		Wrote BSD TCP/IP stack, vi
16		Co-inventor of Haskell and lead designer of Glasgow Haskell Compiler.
17		One of Linus Torvalds's main lieutenants. Wrote Linux TCP/IP code.
18		Invented Perl
19		Author of XEmacs and early Netscape/Mozilla hacker.
20		Wrote the first Wiki and FIT.
21		Lisp library hacker extraordinaire. Co-organizer of the European Common Lisp Meetings 2005 and 2006
22		Invented Forth
23		Wrote the Internet Worm and co-founded Viaweb with Paul Graham
24		Founder of OpenBSD project. Original author of OpenSSH.
25		Founder of Epic Games. Wrote the Unreal Engine.
26		Invented Javascript
27		Lisp hacker and author.
28		Wrote QEMU, TinyCC, FFMPEG; Winner of 2001 IOCCC
29		Invented Ruby
30		Wrote djbns and qmail
31		Wrote Samba file server and co-invented rsync algorithm
32		Created Minix, advocate for micro-kernels.
33		Co-founder of Naughty Dog software. Wrote GOAL which was used to develop Jak and Daxter.
34		Wrote LiveJournal, OpenID, memcached, Perlbal
35		Wrote BitTorrent
36		Optimization expert
37		Abelson of Abelson and Sussman. MIT professor.
38		Wrote GNOME and Mono
39		Wrote Emacs, gcc, and started the Free Software movement.
40		Author of first bitmap windowing system for Unix. Worked on Plan 9. Now works at Google.
41		Invented computer mouse
42		Leader of Pugs project to implement Perl 6 in Haskell
43		Security expert. Creator of Twofish block cipher.
44		Artifical Intelligence researcher
45		Invented Mathematica
46		Lisp hacker
47		Author of Greenspun's Tenth Law and sometimes instructor at MIT
48		Pioneer in optimizing compilers. First woman to win Turing Award (2006) and first woman IBM fellow.
49		Creator of GMail
50		Invented Java, NeWS windowing system.
51		Invented C++
52		Lead architect of C#, Architect of Delphi at Borland. Wrote what became Turbo Pascal
53		Wrote Winamp, NSIS, and Gnutella
54		Invented Rails
55		One of the original MIT hackers. Worked on Lisp machines, Maclisp, and Macsyma
56		Author of Ghostscript, Implemented Smalltalk-80 at Xerox PARC and Lisp 1.5 on PDP-1
57		Discovered principle of public key cryptography
58		Wrote Delicious Monster. Founded Omni Group
59		Key Macintosh developer
60		Worked on OS/2, Windows 95, and Direct X
61		Lisper and Poet. Currently a Distinguished Engineer at IBM. Chair of OOPSLA 2007.
62		Invented Hungarian notation. Original author of Microsoft Word. Head of the IP project at Microsoft, now running intentsoft.com
63		Founded Google
64		Wrote Common Lisp MOP. Invented Aspect Oriented programming.
65		Chief Scientist at Thoughtworks. Author of Refactoring and many other books.
66		Smalltalk implementor and designer.
67		Blogger and Googler
68		FreeBSD hacker, founded DragonFly BSD project
69		Core Ruby developer and free spirit
70		Distributed systems researcher and developer of LaTeX
71		Primary developer of OCaml. Wrote LinuxThreads threading package used in pre 2.6 Linux kernels
72		Author of the Standard Template Library for C++
73		Founded Google
74		Co-wrote Mosaic. Founded Netscape.
75		JSON founder, JavaScript Architect at Yahoo!
76		Unix toolsmith; invented Unix pipelines
77		Wrote Mongrel (Rails HTTP server)
78		Early Mac developer. Designed and implemented Hypercard
79		Architect of VMS and Windows NT
80		Founder of Thinking Machines
81		One of the principle authors of HTTP specification. Invented REST. Co-founder of Apache project
82		Comp Sci professor interested in Scheme and ML. Wrote scsh
83		Architect of Parrot virtual machine
84		Invented web.py
85		Father of TCP/IP
86		Principal at Viaweb. Now founder and CEO of Anybots
87		Redesigned TCP/IP flow control algorithms, saving the net from total collapse. Eponymous inventor of Van Jacobson TCP/IP header compression.
88		Wrote Universal Feed Parser. Author of Dive into Python and Dive into Accessibility.
89		Core PostgreSQL developer
90		One of the founder of Symbolics; comp sci. researcher
91		Wrote BASIC for Altair
92		Invented Objective C
93		Designed T dialect of Scheme and co-wrote Scheme 48
94		Invented Eiffel
95		Invented Sketchpad, precursor to modern GUIs
96		Invented Pascal, Modula, Oberon
97		Co-author of Python Cookbook and Author of Python in a Nutshell
98		Professor of Theoretical Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh. Contributed to design of Java, Haskell, and XQuery.
99		Founded Thawte and Ubuntu project. Previously a Debian developer
100		Core PostgreSQL developer responsible for optimizer.
101		Wrote sqlite embedded SQL database
102		Linux hacker, author of many Linux perfomance improvements.
103		Founding member of ANSI/ISO C++ committee. Author of Thinking in Java and Thinking in C++.
104		Technical Editor of Common Lisp ANSI standard
105		Main implementor of Maclisp on PDP-6. Co-founded Lisp Machines, Inc.
106		According to Richard Gabriel a "code-writing savant".
107		Lead developer of Django
108		Author of Programming Pearls books.
109		Creator of XP
110		Wrote VIM (Vi IMproved)
111		Invented Duff's device and noted graphics programmer
112		Lisp hacker, directior of Lispworks Ltd.
113		Common Lisp hacker, author of Uncommon Web
114		Lisp and Erlang hacker. Project lead for SLIME.
115		Invented Prolog
116		Original author of Franz's Allegro Common Lisp
117		Haskell hacker
118		Colleague of Chuck Moore and second ever Forth programmer
119		Python hacker extraordinaire.
120		Google Fellow in Systems Infrastructure Group. Co-inventor of MapReduce.
121		Python hacker and author of Spambayes
122		Invented PHP
123		Graphics pioneer. Worked at LucasFilm, helped found Pixar.
124		Designed Berkeley Fast File System.
125		One of John McCarthy's grad students. Brought Lisp to life by hand-coding EVAL in assembler. Wrote Spacewar.
126		Perl hacker and three time winner of the Larry Wall award. Wrote Lingua::Romana::Perligata and others.
127		Core JRuby developer
128		FreeBSD kernel hacker
129		Head of Interdisciplinary Computer Science department at Mills College
130		Wrote Postfix. Co-wrote Satan and TCT
131		Principle JRuby developer
132		Original author of Iron Python, now at Microsoft working on dynamic languages on the CLR. Co-designer of AspectJ language, lead development through 1.1 release.
133		Invented Lua
134		Father of Expert Systems
135		Researcher behind Sun's HotSpot JVM technology.
136		Worked on first commercial C compiler
137		Scheme and C hacker. Wrote GNU Arch
138		One of the Gang of Four
139		Started IRC
140		Founded Lotus
141		Invented Pie Menus, working on One Laptop Per Child project.
142		Author of Java collections framework. Now at Google.
143		Wrote BIND
144		XP guru
145		Founder of Joost, Skype, Kazaa
146		Invented TCL
147		Invented Inform language used to program interatvive fiction
148		Architect in SQL server group at Microsoft working on combining functional programming with the CLR and SQL
149		VP of Engineering at Google. Co-author of Glimpse, Agrep, and Harvest search packages.
150		Founder and CEO of Facebook
151		Lisp and Dylan designer.
152		X Windows hacker, founded X.Org Server project
153		Co-founded Microsoft.
154		Co-wrote Scheme 48 and edited R5RS
155		Core Java Swing developer
156		Systems pioneer. Worked on Xerox's Alto.
157		Wrote Visicalc
158		Wrote HomeSite, TopStyle, and FeedDemon
159		One of the Gang of Four
160		Contributor to several GNU projects. Co-author of Bootstrap protocol which became DHCP. Founder of EFF, Cypherpunks mailing list, and Cygnus solutions.
161		Long-time Linux geek.
162		Qt graphics guru
163		Principle designer of SQL; ACM Intercollegiate Programming Contest judge, 1998-2005
164		Core Rails developer, wrote Mephisto and Beast
165		Lisp hacker
166		Original author of Hibernate, JBoss Seam
167		Researcher in theory of algorithms
168		Invented Scala
169		Started Apache Ant and Apache Tomcat projects. Author of Java Servlet API and Java API for XML processing J2EE specifications.
170		Apache organizer
171		Co-wrote Satan and TCT
172		Main architect of Lotus Notes. Now Chief Software Architect at Microsoft.
173		Implementor of of J language
174		Author of Effective C++, More Effective C++, Effective STL
175		Wrote Unix regex library later incorporated into Tcl and Perl. Co-wrote C News news server
176		Graphics Fellow at Microsoft
177		Invented Io language.
178		Author of Rubinus compiler/virtual machine for Ruby
179		Wrote first networked email system and gave us the @-sign in email addresses.
180		Longtime Microsoftie
181		Worked on Plan 9. Represented U.S. at 1995 International Olympiad in Informatics
182		Contributor to Mozart/Oz programming system. Author of Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming
183		One of Linus Torvald's top deputies. Wrote ipchains and netfilter/iptables packet filtering code
184		Wrote Mecurial version control system.
185		Notable Rails programmer
186		Founder of Joost, Skype, Kazaa
187		Wrote the Korn shell
188		Co-founder Dabble DB
189		Software metrics guru
190		Wrote Gnus and Gmane
191		Django developer. Wrote Tivo apps in Python and now hacking Python on the PSP
192		Early Unix hacker
193		Worked on BSD at Berkeley and one of the original authors of BerkeleyDB
194		Programmer on GISS climate modeling software.
195		Founder and CEO of Object Mentor. C++ and Agile methods expert.
196		Concurrency expert and systems programmer.
197		Smalltalk designer and documenter.
198		Security expert
199		Author of X-Plane and Space Combat flight simulators
200		Wrote Scintilla and SciTE
201		UC Comp Sci professor. Author of Berkeley Logo
202		Computer graphics researcher
203		Wrote NCSA HTTPd; drafted Common Gateway Interface specification
204		Invented spanning-tree protocol
205		Author of Shredder chess program
206		Linux kernel hacker
207		Game programmer and language designer
208		Original author of Apache Struts
209		Wrote Adventure and the inner packet processing loop of the original internet IMPs
210	Marcus Ranum	Security expert and author of Firewall Toolkit and Network Flight Recorder
211		Wrote sendmail
212		Co-founder of Pragmatic Programmers
213		Invented A+ and K languages and wrote prototype of J language
214		Co-founder of Pragmatic Programmers
215		Graphics programmer and theorist.
216		The W in AWK
217		Principle JRuby developer
218		One of the Gang of Four
219		Led the development of X Windows while the X Consortium was at MIT
220		Lisp Unix hacker
221		Groovy project lead
222		Major contributor to perl5 including a major reworking of the regex engine.
223		One of the Gang of Four
224		Wrote BeOS file system
225		Software developer and security expert
226		Original author of Spring Framework
227		Co-author of Fritz chess program.
228		BSD hacker. Wrote FreeBSD wi-fi drivers
229		BSDI os hacker
230		System architect of BSD 4.3 and 4.4 releases.
231		HP Fellow working on networking performance. Contributed to HTTP 1.1 spec
232		Worked some on early Logo, wrote Word Star. Also did Stringcomp, an early string processing language.
233		Co-wrote Mosaic.
234		Django developer. Hacker Liason for Yahoo UK
235		Co-author of Fritz chess program.
236		Wrote librep and the sawfish window manager
237		Wrote xmonad, a tiling window manager implemened in Haskell
238		Wrote many DOS software packages for Norton Computing
239		Responsible for the development of BioCyc
240		Worked on ZFS DMU at Sun.
241		Wrote the first version of the Norton Utilities
242		Grails project lead
243		Original architect of Parrot VM
244		Cheif Janitorial Officer - Robot Coop
245		Founder Bloglines, egroups
246		Co-founder Excite & Jot-Spot
247		Perl programmer; author of Higher Order Perl
248		Member of Technical Staff, Lucent Technologies,Bell Labs Innovations, Computing Sciences Research, Murray Hill, New Jersey.
249		Samba developer
250		Kernel hacker and file systems specialist.
251		Founder Findory & worked at Amazon
252		Co-host of the Java Posse podcast. Works at Google.
253		Co-wrote GIMP. Googler.
254		Chief architect of ZFS
255		Co-wrote GIMP. Googler.
256		One of the main software guys behind the original ARPANET IMP's and a master debugger.
257		Co-author of Junior chess program.
258		DodgeBall
259		Contributes to CL-HTTP
260		Twitter
261		Co-founder Pay Pal & Slide
262		Open Poker
263		Cornell Comp. Sci. professor.
264		FogCreekSoftware
265		Co-founder Riya
266		Groovy, Grails contributor
267		Javascript guru. Maintains quirksmode website.
268		Managed the group that built the ARPANET.
269		Original creator of Photoshop.
270		Co-author of Junior chess program.
271		CMM guru.
272		BBNer doing work in computational linguistics, speech recognition, and artificial intelligence.
273		Author of PuTTY
274		Founder Microline Software, Co-founder Speedera Networks
275		Twitter
276		Founder of Symbolics. Now at ITA.
277		Early Apache developer. Started Bianca Troll
278		Author of the Hydra chess program.
279		Works on ZFS in kernel group at Sun
280		Author of a number of gene sequencing programs.
281		Computer algebraist. Worked on MacSysma and Maxima
282		Created Dojo Javascript library
283		Founder vast.com
284		Created Prototype Javascript library