Famous Computer People of the New Millenium
The List
Ronald L. Rivest
Research in cryptography, computer security and algorithms. Author of RC5, RC4, MD5, ...
http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~rivest/
Dennis M. Ritchie
http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/
Ken Thompson
http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/ken/
Brian Kernighan
http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/bwk/
Niklaus Wirth
Inventor of Pascal (I meet him when he was in Prague, November 1999).
http://www.cs.inf.ethz.ch/~wirth/
Linus Torvalds
Author of the most popular UNIX kernel :-)
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/~torvalds/
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Author of Minix and Amoeba.
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/
Eric S. Raymond
OpenSource programmer, Linux advocate. Author of "The Cathedral and the Bazaar".
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/
Steve Jobs
He founded Apple, invited Apple II, ...
http://www.apple.com/pr/bios/jobs.html
Richard M. Stallman
He founded the GNU project in 1984 and he is the author of GNU Emacs, the GNU C Compiler, and other Open-Source Software.
http://www.stallman.org/
Kevin Mitnick
Famous hacker, even though he doesnt do really anything anymore, hes still a big name in the new millenium.
http://www.freekevin.com
Rafael Nunez
Very famous hacker, definately in top 10 in the world. Took down NASA, Military Stuff all over the world, etc. Now works for a group called the counter pedophilia investigative unit
http://www.cpiu.us
M. Seth Pack
This guy is now the director of a group called cpiu, leads a group of famous hackers, one of which is the guy listed above Rafael. This guy used to be the most wanted virus writer in the world by the FBI. On top of that, a very famous and skilled hacker. Now works for the government.
http://www.cpiu.us
Richard Stallman
A hacker of the old school, Stallman walked in off the street and got a job at MIT's Artificial Intelligence Lab in 1971. He was an undergraduate at Harvard at the time. Disturbed that software was viewed as private property, Stallman later founded the Free Software Foundation.
Steve Wozniak
Why Woz? Because he exemplifies the young hacker's dream. Just out of college, the two Steves (Wozniak and Jobs) set to work designing computer games (for Atari) and building blue boxes (for themselves). Woz builds the Apple I. It has no keyboard, no case, no sound or graphics, but it is a thing of beauty nonetheless. The boys shake hands on April Fools' Day 1976, and Apple Computer is born. The pride of the Homebrew Computer Club, Wozniak trades in his HP programmable calculator and Jobs sells his VW van to finance production from a Palo Alto garage.
Tsutomu Shimomura
To state the obvious: Shimomura outhacked and outsmarted Kevin Mitnick, the nation's most infamous cracker/phreaker, in early 1994. After colleagues at the San Diego Supercomputing Center informed Shimomura that someone had stolen hundreds of software programs and files from his work station, the computer security expert worked on a tip to track the thief through the WELL. A labyrinthine telco trail eventually led to an apartment complex in Raleigh, N.C., where FBI agents apprehended Mitnick. (They've had less luck tracking down Mitnick's alleged Israeli accomplice.) But that's not all: A consultant to the FBI, Air Force and National Security Agency, Shimomura is rumored to have engaged in darkside dabblings himself. As Jon Littman notes, "I've always wondered why he wrote that program to eavesdrop on cell phone calls. Somehow it doesn't sound like an NSA contract."
Linus Torvalds
A true hacker in the classic sense, Linus Torvalds was a computer science student at the University of Helsinki when he wrote the operating system Linux (a contraction of "Linus' Minix") in 1991. The software has proven to be tremendously popular worldwide — and best of all it's FREE! Torvalds modestly attributes much of Linux's success to the Net and to Richard Stallman's GNU: Both have facilitated development of his original kernel by fostering collaboration among software programmers and developers.
Mark Abene
As a founding member of the Masters of Deception, Phiber Optik inspired thousands of teenagers around the country to "study" the internal workings of our nation's phone system. A federal judge attempted to "send a message" to other hackers by sentencing Phiber to a year in federal prison, but the message got garbled: Hundreds of well-wishers attended a welcome-home party in Abene's honor at an elite Manhattan Club. Soon after, New York magazine dubbed him one of the city's 100 smartest people.
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