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This is a list of programmers notable for their contributions to software, either as original author or architect, or for later additions. All entries must already have associated articles. Some persons notable as computer scientists are included here because they work in program as well as research.
Influential in establishing computer science as an independent discipline of science; coined the term software engineering. Contributed to numerical analysis, fundamentals of interpretation and translation of programming languages, systematics of program development, program transformation, and cryptology. 1953 Bellman, Richard E.
Jean Bartik (1924–2011) – one of the first computer programmers, on ENIAC (1946), one of the first Vacuum tube computers, back when "programming" involved using cables, dials, and switches to physically rewire the machine; worked with John Mauchly toward BINAC (1949), EDVAC (1949), UNIVAC (1951) to develop early "stored program" computers ...
A recipient of the Turing award [3], he is considered one of the greatest computer programmers of all time. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Other notable contributions included his work on regular expressions and early computer text editors QED and ed , the definition of the UTF-8 encoding, and his work on computer chess that included the creation of endgame ...
Time magazine has recognized Torvalds multiple times: In 2000, he was 17th in their Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century poll. [83] In 2004, he was named one of the most influential people in the world by Time magazine. [84] In 2006, the magazine's Europe edition named him one of the revolutionary heroes of the past 60 years. [30]
Kautilya Katariya, a computer whiz from the UK, became the youngest qualified computer programmer in the world last year at just six-years-old after taking a series of computer lessons including ...
Berners-Lee was born in London on 8 June 1955, [24] the son of mathematicians and computer scientists Mary Lee Woods (1924–2017) and Conway Berners-Lee (1921–2019). His parents were both from Birmingham and worked on the Ferranti Mark 1, the first commercially-built computer.
Swift was the most streamed artist on Apple Music and Spotify last year. Her Eras Tour is the highest-grossing tour of all time. She’s won 14 Grammy Awards and for 2025, she’s nominated for ...