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| x Adele Goldberg | Person |
Adele Goldberg (born July 22, 1945) is a computer scientist who wrote or co-wrote books on the programming language Smalltalk-80. In the 1970s she worked for Xerox's PARC laboratory on the Xerox Alto. According to Adele, Steve Jobs demanded a...
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| x Xerox PARC |
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Company | Mesa |
PARC (Palo Alto Research Center, Inc.), formerly Xerox PARC, is a research and development company in Palo Alto, California that began as a division of Xerox Corporation.
PARC was founded in 1970, and incorporated as a wholly owned subsidiary of...
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| Software Developer | Interlisp | |||
| Employer | Smalltalk | |||
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| x Mike Levin | Lisp | |||
| x Timothy P Hart | Lisp | |||
| x Steve Russell |
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Computer Game Developer | Lisp |
Steve "Slug" Russell is a programmer and computer scientist most famous for creating Spacewar!, one of the earliest videogames, in 1961 with the fellow members of the Tech Model Railroad Club at MIT working on a DEC Digital PDP-1. While there is...
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| x Thinking Machines |
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Company | *Lisp |
Thinking Machines Corporation was a supercomputer manufacturer founded in Waltham, Massachusetts in 1982 by W. Daniel "Danny" Hillis and Sheryl Handler to turn Hillis's doctoral work at MIT on massively parallel computing architectures into a...
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| x Jeff Mincy | *Lisp | |||
| x JP Massar | *Lisp | |||
| x Apple Inc |
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Company | Dylan |
Apple Inc., (NASDAQ: AAPL) formerly Apple Computer, Inc., is an American multinational corporation with a focus on designing and manufacturing consumer electronics and software products. The company's best-known hardware products include the...
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| Operating System Developer | AppleScript | |||
| Computer Manufacturer/Brand | Objective-C | |||
| Programming Language Designer | NewtonScript | |||
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| x IBM |
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Company | Fortran |
International Business Machines Corporation, abbreviated IBM and nicknamed "Big Blue", is a multinational computer technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. The company is one of the few information...
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| Operating System Developer | PL/I | |||
| Processor Manufacturer | REXX | |||
| Computer Manufacturer/Brand | SQL | |||
| Programming Language Designer | RPG programming language | |||
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| x John Backus |
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Person | Fortran |
John Warner Backus (December 3, 1924 – March 17, 2007) was an American computer scientist. He led the team that invented the first widely used high-level programming language (FORTRAN) and was the inventor of the Backus-Naur form (BNF), the almost...
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| x Yukihiro Matsumoto |
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Person | Ruby |
He was born in Osaka Prefecture, in western Honshū. According to an interview conducted by Japan Inc., he was a self-taught programmer until the end of high school. He graduated with an information science degree from Tsukuba University, where...
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| x Norman I. Adams | Programming Language Designer | T | ||
| x Jonathan A. Rees |
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| x Bob Bemer | Person | COMTRAN |
Robert William Bemer (February 8, 1920 – June 22, 2004) was a computer scientist best known for his work at IBM during the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Born in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, Bemer graduated from Cranbrook School in 1936 and took an A.B....
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| x Grace Hopper |
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Person | FLOW-MATIC |
Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper (December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992) was an American computer scientist and United States Naval officer. A pioneer in the field, she was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I calculator, and she...
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| x Fergus Henderson | Mercury | |||
| x Thomas Conway | Mercury | |||
| x Zoltan Somogyi | Person | Mercury |
Dr. Zoltan Somogyi is a senior lecturer at the University of Melbourne's department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, who currently leads the team responsible for the Mercury programming language.
Aside from Mercury, Somogyi has also...
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| x Ericsson |
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Company | Erlang |
Ericsson (Telefonaktiebolaget L. M. Ericsson) (OMX: ERIC B, NASDAQ: ERIC), one of the largest Swedish companies, is a leading provider of telecommunication and data communication systems, and related services covering a range of technologies,...
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| x Ted Kaeler | Smalltalk | |||
| x Guido van Rossum |
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Programming Language Designer | ABC |
Guido van Rossum is a Dutch computer programmer who is best known as the author of the Python programming language. In the Python community, Van Rossum is known as a “Benevolent Dictator for Life” (BDFL), meaning that he continues to oversee the...
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| Person | Python | |||
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| x Guillaume Laforge | Person | Groovy |
Guillaume Laforge is the Groovy project manager and also the spec lead of JSR-241 (the formal spcefication of the language).
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| x Sun Microsystems |
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Company | Fortress programming language |
Sun Microsystems Inc., (NASDAQ: JAVA) provides network computing infrastructure solutions that include computer systems, software, storage, and services. Its core brands include the Java technology platform, the Solaris operating system, StorageTek...
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| x Cray |
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Company | Chapel programming language |
Cray Inc. (NASDAQ: CRAY) is a supercomputer manufacturer based in Seattle, Washington. The company's predecessor, Cray Research, Inc. (CRI), was founded in 1972 by computer designer Seymour Cray. Already a legend in his field by this time, Cray put...
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