CODERS at WORK 当代最有趣的程序员天才

这是来自APress作者Peter Siebel正在筹划的一本书《Codes At Work》,计划采访15位还在世的最有趣的程序员天才。作者为此建立了网站http://www.codersatwork.com/，众多读者给出了很多值得采访的程序员名单，一共有284个，详细见列表。作者经过选择，挑选出了一批最重要的如下。

Frances Allen	Pioneer in optimizing compilers. First woman to win Turing Award (2006) and first woman IBM fellow.
Joe Armstrong	Inventor of Erlang
Joshua Bloch	Author of Java collections framework. Now at Google.
Bernie Cosell	One of the main software guys behind the original ARPANET IMP's and a master debugger.
Douglas Crockford	JSON founder, JavaScript Architect at Yahoo!
L. Peter Deutsch	Author of Ghostscript, Implemented Smalltalk-80 at Xerox PARC and Lisp 1.5 on PDP-1
Brendan Eich	Inventor of Javascript. CTO of the Mozilla Corporation
Brad Fitzpatrick	Wrote LiveJournal, OpenID, memcached, Perlbal
Dan Ingalls	Smalltalk implementor and designer.
Simon Peyton Jones	Co-inventor of Haskell and lead designer of Glasgow Haskell Compiler.
Donald Knuth	Author of The Art of Computer Programming and TeX
Peter Norvig	Director of Research at Google and author of the standard text on AI.
Guy Steele	Co-inventor of Scheme and part of the Common Lisp Gang of Five. Currently working on Fortress.
Ken Thompson	Inventor of UNIX
Jamie Zawinski	Author of XEmacs and early Netscape/Mozilla hacker.

全部284人候选名单

#	Name	Description
1	Peter Norvig	Director of Research at Google and author of the standard text on AI.
2	Alan Kay	Inventor of Smalltalk. Coined the term "object-oriented programming".
3	Guy Steele	Co-inventor of Scheme and part of the Common Lisp Gang of Five. Currently working on Fortress.
4	Donald Knuth	Author of The Art of Computer Programming and TeX
5	Gerald Jay Sussman	Co-creator of Scheme and co-author of The Structure And Interpretation of Computer Programs.
6	John McCarthy	Invented Lisp
7	John Carmack	Founder of id Software; lead programmer of Doom, Quake, and others.
8	Dennis Ritchie	Invented C and contributed to development of UNIX
9	Joe Armstrong	Inventor of Erlang
10	Ken Thompson	Inventor of UNIX
11	Brian Kernighan	The K in AWK and K&R. Author of the original "hello, world" program.
12	Guido van Rossum	Invented Python
13	Linus Torvalds	Wrote and maintains Linux kernel. Wrote GIT version control system.
14	Steve Wozniak	Wrote most of the original Apple II software.
15	Bill Joy	Wrote BSD TCP/IP stack, vi
16	Simon Peyton Jones	Co-inventor of Haskell and lead designer of Glasgow Haskell Compiler.
17	Larry Wall	Invented Perl
18	Alan Cox	One of Linus Torvalds's main lieutenants. Wrote Linux TCP/IP code.
19	Jamie Zawinski	Author of XEmacs and early Netscape/Mozilla hacker.
20	Ward Cunningham	Wrote the first Wiki and FIT.
21	Chuck Moore	Invented Forth
22	Theo de Raadt	Founder of OpenBSD project. Original author of OpenSSH.
23	Tim Sweeney	Founder of Epic Games. Wrote the Unreal Engine.
24	Edi Weitz	Lisp library hacker extraordinaire. Co-organizer of the European Common Lisp Meetings 2005 and 2006
25	Robert Morris	Wrote the Internet Worm and co-founded Viaweb with Paul Graham
26	Brendan Eich	Inventor of Javascript. CTO of the Mozilla Corporation
27	Paul Graham	Lisp hacker and author.
28	Yukihiro Matsumoto	Invented Ruby
29	Fabrice Bellard	Wrote QEMU, TinyCC, FFMPEG; Winner of 2001 IOCCC
30	Dan Bernstein	Wrote djbns and qmail
31	Andrew Tridgell	Wrote Samba file server and co-invented rsync algorithm
32	Andrew Tanenbaum	Created Minix, advocate for micro-kernels.
33	Andy Gavin	Co-founder of Naughty Dog software. Wrote GOAL which was used to develop Jak and Daxter.
34	Brad Fitzpatrick	Wrote LiveJournal, OpenID, memcached, Perlbal
35	Bram Cohen	Wrote BitTorrent
36	Michael Abrash	Optimization expert
37	Hal Abelson	Abelson of Abelson and Sussman. MIT professor.
38	Miguel de Icaza	Wrote GNOME and Mono
39	Richard Stallman	Wrote Emacs, gcc, and started the Free Software movement.
40	Rob Pike	Author of first bitmap windowing system for Unix. Worked on Plan 9. Now works at Google.
41	Douglas Engelbart	Invented computer mouse
42	Audrey Tang	Leader of Pugs project to implement Perl 6 in Haskell
43	Marvin Minsky	Artifical Intelligence researcher
44	Stephen Wolfram	Invented Mathematica
45	Bruce Schneier	Security expert. Creator of Twofish block cipher.
46	Philip Greenspun	Author of Greenspun's Tenth Law and sometimes instructor at MIT
47	Frances Allen	Pioneer in optimizing compilers. First woman to win Turing Award (2006) and first woman IBM fellow.
48	Erik Naggum	Lisp hacker
49	James Gosling	Invented Java, NeWS windowing system.
50	Paul Buchheit	Creator of GMail
51	Bjarne Stroustrup	Invented C++
52	Anders Hejlsberg	Lead architect of C#, Architect of Delphi at Borland. Wrote what became Turbo Pascal
53	Justin Frankel	Wrote Winamp, NSIS, and Gnutella
54	David Heinemeier Hansson	Invented Rails
55	Bill Gosper	One of the original MIT hackers. Worked on Lisp machines, Maclisp, and Macsyma
56	L. Peter Deutsch	Author of Ghostscript, Implemented Smalltalk-80 at Xerox PARC and Lisp 1.5 on PDP-1
57	Whitfield Diffie	Discovered principle of public key cryptography
58	Wil Shipley	Wrote Delicious Monster. Founded Omni Group
59	Andy Hertzfeld	Key Macintosh developer
60	Raymond Chen	Worked on OS/2, Windows 95, and Direct X
61	Richard Gabriel	Lisper and Poet. Currently a Distinguished Engineer at IBM. Chair of OOPSLA 2007.
62	Charles Simonyi	Invented Hungarian notation. Original author of Microsoft Word. Head of the IP project at Microsoft, now running intentsoft.com
63	Sergey Brin	Founded Google
64	Gregor Kiczales	Wrote Common Lisp MOP. Invented Aspect Oriented programming.
65	Martin Fowler	Chief Scientist at Thoughtworks. Author of Refactoring and many other books.
66	Dan Ingalls	Smalltalk implementor and designer.
67	Steve Yegge	Blogger and Googler
68	Matt Dillon	FreeBSD hacker, founded DragonFly BSD project
69	Leslie Lamport	Distributed systems researcher and developer of LaTeX
70	Why the lucky stiff	Core Ruby developer and free spirit
71	Xavier Leroy	Primary developer of OCaml. Wrote LinuxThreads threading package used in pre 2.6 Linux kernels
72	Alexander Stepanov	Author of the Standard Template Library for C++
73	Douglas Crockford	JSON founder, JavaScript Architect at Yahoo!
74	Larry Page	Founded Google
75	Marc Andreessen	Co-wrote Mosaic. Founded Netscape.
76	Douglas McIlroy	Unix toolsmith; invented Unix pipelines
77	Bill Atkinson	Early Mac developer. Designed and implemented Hypercard
78	David Cutler	Architect of VMS and Windows NT
79	Zed Shaw	Wrote Mongrel (Rails HTTP server)
80	Danny Hillis	Founder of Thinking Machines
81	Roy Fielding	One of the principle authors of HTTP specification. Invented REST. Co-founder of Apache project
82	Olin Shivers	Comp Sci professor interested in Scheme and ML. Wrote scsh
83	Vinton Cerf	Father of TCP/IP
84	Allison Randal	Architect of Parrot virtual machine
85	Aaron Swartz	Invented web.py
86	Trevor Blackwell	Principal at Viaweb. Now founder and CEO of Anybots
87	Bruce Momjian	Core PostgreSQL developer
88	Van Jacobson	Redesigned TCP/IP flow control algorithms, saving the net from total collapse. Eponymous inventor of Van Jacobson TCP/IP header compression.
89	Mark Pilgrim	Wrote Universal Feed Parser. Author of Dive into Python and Dive into Accessibility.
90	Bill Gates	Wrote BASIC for Altair
91	Henry Baker	One of the founder of Symbolics; comp sci. researcher
92	Brad Cox	Invented Objective C
93	Jonathan Rees	Designed T dialect of Scheme and co-wrote Scheme 48
94	Bertrand Meyer	Invented Eiffel
95	Ivan Sutherland	Invented Sketchpad, precursor to modern GUIs
96	Niklaus Wirth	Invented Pascal, Modula, Oberon
97	Alex Martelli	Co-author of Python Cookbook and Author of Python in a Nutshell
98	Philip Wadler	Professor of Theoretical Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh. Contributed to design of Java, Haskell, and XQuery.
99	Mark Shuttleworth	Founded Thawte and Ubuntu project. Previously a Debian developer
100	Tom Lane	Core PostgreSQL developer responsible for optimizer.
101	Richard Hipp	Wrote sqlite embedded SQL database
102	Ingo Molnár	Linux hacker, author of many Linux perfomance improvements.
103	Bruce Eckel	Founding member of ANSI/ISO C++ committee. Author of Thinking in Java and Thinking in C++.
104	Kent Pitman	Technical Editor of Common Lisp ANSI standard
105	Jeff Rubin	According to Richard Gabriel a "code-writing savant".
106	Richard Greenblatt	Main implementor of Maclisp on PDP-6. Co-founded Lisp Machines, Inc.
107	Adrian Holovaty	Lead developer of Django
108	Jon Bentley	Author of Programming Pearls books.
109	Kent Beck	Creator of XP
110	Bram Moolenaar	Wrote VIM (Vi IMproved)
111	Tom Duff	Invented Duff's device and noted graphics programmer
112	Dave Fox	Lisp hacker, directior of Lispworks Ltd.
113	Luke Gorrie	Lisp and Erlang hacker. Project lead for SLIME.
114	Marco Baringer	Common Lisp hacker, author of Uncommon Web
115	Alain Colmerauer	Invented Prolog
116	Don Stewart	Haskell hacker
117	John Foderaro	Original author of Franz's Allegro Common Lisp
118	Elizabeth Rather	Colleague of Chuck Moore and second ever Forth programmer
119	Ka-Ping Yee	Python hacker extraordinaire.
120	Jeff Dean	Google Fellow in Systems Infrastructure Group. Co-inventor of MapReduce.
121	Tim Peters	Python hacker and author of Spambayes
122	Rasmus Lerdorf	Invented PHP
123	Alvy Ray Smith	Graphics pioneer. Worked at LucasFilm, helped found Pixar.
124	Marshall Kirk McKusick	Designed Berkeley Fast File System.
125	Steve Russell	One of John McCarthy's grad students. Brought Lisp to life by hand-coding EVAL in assembler. Wrote Spacewar.
126	Damian Conway	Perl hacker and three time winner of the Larry Wall award. Wrote Lingua::Romana::Perligata and others.
127	Ola Bini	Core JRuby developer
128	Poul-Henning Kamp	FreeBSD kernel hacker
129	Ellen Spertus	Head of Interdisciplinary Computer Science department at Mills College
130	Wietse Venema	Wrote Postfix. Co-wrote Satan and TCT
131	Charles Nutter	Principle JRuby developer
132	Jim Hugunin	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	Roberto Ierusalimschy	Invented Lua
134	Joshua Bloch	Author of Java collections framework. Now at Google.
135	Edward Feigenbaum	Father of Expert Systems
136	Urs Hölzle	Researcher behind Sun's HotSpot JVM technology.
137	P.J. Plauger	Worked on first commercial C compiler
138	Tom Lord	Scheme and C hacker. Wrote GNU Arch
139	Erich Gamma	One of the Gang of Four
140	Jarkko Oikarinen	Started IRC
141	Mitchell Kapor	Founded Lotus
142	Don Hopkins	Invented Pie Menus, working on One Laptop Per Child project.
143	Paul Vixie	Wrote BIND
144	Michael Feathers	XP guru
145	Janus Friis	Founder of Joost, Skype, Kazaa
146	John Ousterhout	Invented TCL
147	Graham Nelson	Invented Inform language used to program interatvive fiction
148	Eric Meijer	Architect in SQL server group at Microsoft working on combining functional programming with the CLR and SQL
149	Udi Manber	VP of Engineering at Google. Co-author of Glimpse, Agrep, and Harvest search packages.
150	Mark Zuckerberg	Founder and CEO of Facebook
151	Scott McKay	Lisp and Dylan designer.
152	Keith Packard	X Windows hacker, founded X.Org Server project
153	Paul Allen	Co-founded Microsoft.
154	Richard Kelsey	Co-wrote Scheme 48 and edited R5RS
155	Amy Fowler	Core Java Swing developer
156	Butler Lampson	Systems pioneer. Worked on Xerox's Alto.
157	Dan Bricklin	Wrote Visicalc
158	Nick Bradbury	Wrote HomeSite, TopStyle, and FeedDemon
159	Ralph Johnson	One of the Gang of Four
160	John Gilmore	Contributor to several GNU projects. Co-author of Bootstrap protocol which became DHCP. Founder of EFF, Cypherpunks mailing list, and Cygnus solutions.
161	Carla Schroder	Long-time Linux geek.
162	Zack Rusin	Qt graphics guru
163	Donald Chamberlin	Principle designer of SQL; ACM Intercollegiate Programming Contest judge, 1998-2005
164	Rick Olsen	Core Rails developer, wrote Mephisto and Beast
165	Joe Marshall	Lisp hacker
166	Gavin King	Original author of Hibernate, JBoss Seam
167	Richard Karp	Researcher in theory of algorithms
168	Martin Odersky	Invented Scala
169	James Duncan Davidson	Started Apache Ant and Apache Tomcat projects. Author of Java Servlet API and Java API for XML processing J2EE specifications.
170	Brian Behlendorf	Apache organizer
171	Dan Farmer	Co-wrote Satan and TCT
172	Ray Ozzie	Main architect of Lotus Notes. Now Chief Software Architect at Microsoft.
173	Roger Hui	Implementor of of J language
174	Scott Meyers	Author of Effective C++, More Effective C++, Effective STL
175	Henry Spencer	Wrote Unix regex library later incorporated into Tcl and Perl. Co-wrote C News news server
176	Jim Blinn	Graphics Fellow at Microsoft
177	Steve Dekorte	Invented Io language.
178	Evan Phoenix	Author of Rubinus compiler/virtual machine for Ruby
179	Ray Tomlinson	Wrote first networked email system and gave us the @-sign in email addresses.
180	Larry Osterman	Longtime Microsoftie
181	Russ Cox	Worked on Plan 9. Represented U.S. at 1995 International Olympiad in Informatics
182	Peter Van Roy	Contributor to Mozart/Oz programming system. Author of Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming
183	Paul 'Rusty' Russell	One of Linus Torvald's top deputies. Wrote ipchains and netfilter/iptables packet filtering code
184	Matt Mackall	Wrote Mecurial version control system.
185	Chris Wanstrath	Notable Rails programmer
186	Niklas Zennstrom	Founder of Joost, Skype, Kazaa
187	David Korn	Wrote the Korn shell
188	Avi Bryant	Co-founder Dabble DB
189	Barry Boehem	Software metrics guru
190	Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen	Wrote Gnus and Gmane
191	Jacob Kaplan-Moss	Django developer. Wrote Tivo apps in Python and now hacking Python on the PSP
192	John Mashey	Early Unix hacker
193	Keith Bostic	Worked on BSD at Berkeley and one of the original authors of BerkeleyDB
194	Gavin Schmidt	Programmer on GISS climate modeling software.
195	Robert Martin	Founder and CEO of Object Mentor. C++ and Agile methods expert.
196	Doug Lea	Concurrency expert and systems programmer.
197	Adele Goldberg	Smalltalk designer and documenter.
198	Dan Geer	Security expert
199	Austin Meyer	Author of X-Plane and Space Combat flight simulators
200	Neil Hodgson	Wrote Scintilla and SciTE
201	Brian Harvey	UC Comp Sci professor. Author of Berkeley Logo
202	Paul Haeberli	Computer graphics researcher
203	Rob McCool	Wrote NCSA HTTPd; drafted Common Gateway Interface specification
204	Radia Perlman	Invented spanning-tree protocol
205	Stefan Meyer-Kahlen	Author of Shredder chess program
206	Alessandro Rubini	Linux kernel hacker
207	Wouter van Oortmerssen	Game programmer and language designer
208	Craig McClanahan	Original author of Apache Struts
209	Will Crowther	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	Eric Allman	Wrote sendmail
212	Andrew Hunt	Co-founder of Pragmatic Programmers
213	Arthur Whitney	Invented A+ and K languages and wrote prototype of J language
214	Dave Thomas	Co-founder of Pragmatic Programmers
215	Dan Piponi	Graphics programmer and theorist.
216	Peter Weinberger	The W in AWK
217	Thomas Enebo	Principle JRuby developer
218	Richard Helm	One of the Gang of Four
219	Bob Scheifler	Led the development of X Windows while the X Consortium was at MIT
220	Charles Hedrick	Lisp Unix hacker
221	Guillaume Laforge	Groovy project lead
222	Ilya Zakharevich	Major contributor to perl5 including a major reworking of the regex engine.
223	John Vlissides	One of the Gang of Four
224	Dominic Giampaolo	Wrote BeOS file system
225	Salvatore Sanfilippo	Software developer and security expert
226	Rod Johnson	Original author of Spring Framework
227	Mathias Feist	Co-author of Fritz chess program.
228	Sam Leffler	BSD hacker. Wrote FreeBSD wi-fi drivers
229	Chris Torek	BSDI os hacker
230	Mike Karels	System architect of BSD 4.3 and 4.4 releases.
231	Jeff Mogul	HP Fellow working on networking performance. Contributed to HTTP 1.1 spec
232	Rob Barnaby	Worked some on early Logo, wrote Word Star. Also did Stringcomp, an early string processing language.
233	Eric Bina	Co-wrote Mosaic.
234	Simon Willison	Django developer. Hacker Liason for Yahoo UK
235	Frans Morsch	Co-author of Fritz chess program.
236	John Harper	Wrote librep and the sawfish window manager
237	Spencer Janssen	Wrote xmonad, a tiling window manager implemened in Haskell
238	John Socha	Wrote many DOS software packages for Norton Computing
239	Peter Karp	Responsible for the development of BioCyc
240	Mark Maybee	Worked on ZFS DMU at Sun.
241	Peter Norton	Wrote the first version of the Norton Utilities
242	Graeme Rocher	Grails project lead
243	Dan Sugalski	Original architect of Parrot VM
244	Erik Benson	Cheif Janitorial Officer - Robot Coop
245	Mark Fletcher	Founder Bloglines, egroups
246	Graham Spencer	Co-founder Excite & Jot-Spot
247	Mark Jason Dominus	Perl programmer; author of Higher Order Perl
248	Sape Mullender	Member of Technical Staff, Lucent Technologies,Bell Labs Innovations, Computing Sciences Research, Murray Hill, New Jersey.
249	Paul Mackerras	Samba developer
250	Val Henson	Kernel hacker and file systems specialist.
251	Greg Linden	Founder Findory & worked at Amazon
252	Dick Wall	Co-host of the Java Posse podcast. Works at Google.
253	Spencer Kimball	Co-wrote GIMP. Googler.
254	Jeff Bonwick	Chief architect of ZFS
255	Peter Mattis	Co-wrote GIMP. Googler.
256	Bernie Cosell	One of the main software guys behind the original ARPANET IMP's and a master debugger.
257	Shay Bushinsky	Co-author of Junior chess program.
258	Dennis Crawley	DodgeBall
259	Rainer Joswig	Contributes to CL-HTTP
260	Biz Stone	Twitter
261	Max Levchin	Co-founder Pay Pal & Slide
262	Joel Reymont	Open Poker
263	Jon Kleinberg	Cornell Comp. Sci. professor.
264	Joel Spolsky	FogCreekSoftware
265	Munjal Shah	Co-founder Riya
266	Dierk Koenig.	Groovy, Grails contributor
267	Peter-Paul Koch	Javascript guru. Maintains quirksmode website.
268	Frank Heart	Managed the group that built the ARPANET.
269	Thomas Knoll	Original creator of Photoshop.
270	Amir Ban	Co-author of Junior chess program.
271	Watts Humphrey	CMM guru.
272	Rusty Bobrow	BBNer doing work in computational linguistics, speech recognition, and artificial intelligence.
273	Simon Tatham	Author of PuTTY
274	Eric Swildens	Founder Microline Software, Co-founder Speedera Networks
275	Evan Williams	Twitter
276	Dan Weinreb	Founder of Symbolics. Now at ITA.
277	Robert Thau	Early Apache developer. Started Bianca Troll
278	Chrilly Donninger	Author of the Hydra chess program.
279	Matthew Ahrens	Works on ZFS in kernel group at Sun
280	Michael C. Schatz	Author of a number of gene sequencing programs.
281	Richard Fateman	Computer algebraist. Worked on MacSysma and Maxima
282	Alex Russell	Created Dojo Javascript library
283	Sam Stephenson	Created Prototype Javascript library
284	Naval Ravikanth	Founder vast.com