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BuddyCast

Developed by Mel Beckman, Denison Bollay, and Brian Fox, the protocol maintains resilience through the use of standby redundant buddies to replace buddies that leave the network.

Central and Eastern European Software Engineering Conference in Russia

The list of keynote/invited/panel speakers from previous CEE-SECR’s includes: Thomas Erl, Bjarne Stroustrup, Erich Gamma, Richard Soley, Igor Agamirzian, Grady Booch, Lars Bak, Alexander L. Wolf, Yuri Gurevich, Victor Ivannikov, Stephen Mellor, Larry Constantine, Ivar Jacobson, Rick Kazman, Michael Cusumano and other leading figures in the software field.

Fabien Chéreau

Fabien Chéreau (born 17 September 1980 in Villefranche-sur-Saône, France) is a French Research Engineer and computer programmer best known for authoring the planetarium software Stellarium, a free, open source astronomy software package which renders 3D photo-realistic skies in real time.

Fat Guy Stuck in Internet

Hotshot computer programmer Ken Gemberling is the top programmer at Ynapmoclive Interactive, but is also remarkably rude, selfish, and arrogant.

Frak!

Frak! is a 1980s computer game originally programmed by Orlando (aka Nick Pelling) for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron and published by his own 'Aardvark' software label in 1984.

IBM System/36 BASIC

For example, on the Apple II, a programmer could embed a command into a program via PRINT, when prefaced by the character string CHR$(4).

Jack Dennis

Multics was not fully successful as a commercial project, but it was important because it influenced the design of many other computer operating systems, including inspiration for Ken Thompson to design Unix.

Real World Haskell

Real World Haskell is an O'Reilly Media book, ISBN 978-0-596-51498-3, about the Haskell programming language by Bryan O'Sullivan, Don Stewart, and John Goerzen and features a rhinoceros beetle as its mascot.

Rob Hartill

Robert Hartill (Born 30 January 1969 in Pontypridd, Wales) is a computer programmer and web designer best known for his work on the Internet Movie Database website and the Apache web server and is notable for playing a key role in the initial growth of the World Wide Web.

Robert Tappan Morris

2005 – Co-founded Y Combinator, a seed-stage startup funding firm, that provides seed money, advice, and connections at two 3-month programs per year (with Paul Graham, Trevor Blackwell, and Jessica Livingston)

SharpMusique

SharpMusique was a rewrite in C# of PyMusique, which was an iTunes Music Store client written in Python by Travis Watkins, Cody Brocious, and Jon Lech Johansen for the purpose of allowing downloading songs from the iTunes Music Store before DRM was applied to them from a Mac, Linux, or Windows computer.

System/34 BASIC

BASIC interpreters written in the Seventies tended to "do odd things odd ways." For example, on the Apple II, a programmer could embed a DOS command into a program via PRINT, when prefaced by the character string CHR$(4).

Tony James

After graduating from Brunel University with a First Class Honours Degree in mathematics and computing, Tony James worked as a computer programmer before playing music full-time.


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9882 Stallman

It is named after software freedom activist and computer programmer Richard Stallman, founder of the GNU Project.

A picture is worth a thousand words

Computer programmer and author Fred Brooks makes an opposite statement regarding programming in The Mythical Man-Month: "Show me your flowcharts and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won’t usually need your flowcharts; they’ll be obvious."

Anthony Towns

Anthony Towns (born 21 June 1978, Melbourne, Australia) is a computer programmer who was a long-time Debian release manager, ftpmaster team member and later the Debian Project Leader (from 17 April 2006 until 17 April 2007).

Aronsson

Lars Aronsson (born 1966), Swedish computer programmer and consultant, founder of Project Runeberg and the wiki susning

Aruna Kumari Galla

She worked for the Chrysler Corporation as computer programmer and departmental head for Management Information Systems in the sales division.

Astrology software

Astrologer and computer programmer Michael Erlewine was involved early in making astrological software for microcomputers available to the general public in the late 1970s.

Autostereogram

In 1979, Christopher Tyler of Smith-Kettlewell Institute, a student of Julesz and a visual psychophysicist, combined the theories behind single-image wallpaper stereograms and random-dot stereograms (the work of Julesz and Schilling) to create the first black-and-white "random-dot autostereogram" (also known as single-image random-dot stereogram) with the assistance of computer programmer Maureen Clarke using Apple II and BASIC.

Bellard

Fabrice Bellard, computer programmer best known as the founder of FFmpeg and QEMU

Conway's law

Conway's law is an adage named after computer programmer Melvin Conway, who introduced the idea in 1968; it was first dubbed Conway's law by participants at the 1968 National Symposium on Modular Programming.

Damon and Debbie

The couple visit Morecambe, with Goth Papadum-packer Jenny (Michelle Holmes), who Debbie had met at the open day, and her husband, computer programmer Kirk (Ian Ormsby-Knox).

Elmsley

Alex Elmsley (1929–2006), British Magician and Computer programmer

Frederick Fish

Fred Fish (1952 – 2007), American computer programmer known for GNU Debugger and free Fish disks for Amiga

Gerrit Krol

He studied mathematics and worked with Royal Dutch Shell and some of its operating units as computer programmer and system designer.

Jelliffe

Rick Jelliffe, Australian computer programmer and promoter of the Microsoft Office Open XML document format

Jennifer Diane Reitz

Jennifer Diane Reitz (born 1959 in Baker, Oregon) is an American writer, webcomic author, and computer programmer, known for creating webcomics such as Unicorn Jelly, Pastel Defender Heliotrope and To Save Her, and computer games such as Boppin'.

Jesse Sheidlower

Although not a computer programmer by training, Sheidlower introduced Perl to the North American offices of Oxford University Press and developed tools for data manipulation when no programmers were available.

John Lytton, 5th Earl of Lytton

He is a descendant of the poet and adventurer Lord Byron (born 1788), via his daughter Ada Lovelace (born 1815), arguably the world's first computer programmer.

Klaus Darga

Klaus retired as a chess professional and became a computer programmer for IBM.

Magic Eye

Christopher Tyler created the first black-and-white autostereograms in 1979 with the assistance of computer programmer Maureen Clarke.

Mel Bush

Mel is a computer programmer from the 20th century who comes from the village of Pease Pottage in West Sussex, England.

Nathaniel Freeman

Nat Friedman (born 1977), Nathaniel Friedman (pronounced Freedman), computer programmer

Paul Morrison

John Paul Morrison (born 1937), aka Paul Morrison or J. Paul Morrison, Canadian computer programmer

Robert Hoehl

After working at IBM as a computer programmer, he founded Burlington Data Processing (BDP) in 1969 with Richard Tarrant.

Role of Honour

Holy is an elite computer programmer once working for The Pentagon; he now owns and manages a software company that develops computer game simulations based on real-life wars and battles.

Ron Harris

Ronald Dale Harris (born 1956), former computer programmer for the Nevada Gaming Control Board

Tandy Center Subway

In April 1982 the first PCC streetcar to run the line in 1963, "Leonard's Number 1", was saved from the cutting torch by a Tandy computer programmer and stored on a farm south of Fort Worth where it remained for over 25 years.

Thomas Jacobsen

Thomas Jakobsen, mathematician, cryptographer, and computer programmer

University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee College of Engineering and Applied Science

Phil Katz ('84, BS Computer Science), a computer programmer best known as the author of PKZIP.

Van Rossum

Guido van Rossum (born 1956), Dutch computer programmer and author of the Python programming language

William Stein

William A. Stein (born 1974), computer programmer and mathematician