People¶

Software Engineering and Information Technology industries are people-centric.

Tools and services provide the greatest value when they enable people to achieve more.

Work in progress

Notable People¶

People who have made a significant impact in the world of computer science and software engineering (non-exhaustive list).

Ada Lovelace - inventor of computer programming
Charles Babbage - inventor of the digital programmable computer
Grace Hopper - devise the theory of "machine-independent programming languages", influencing the creation of COBOL which accelerated the adoption of computing for business systems
Doug Englebart - creator of The Mother of all Demos
Ted Nelson - created Project Xanadu (the Internet before the World Wide Web), coining the terms "Hypertext" and "Hypermedia"
Margaret Hamilton - led the Apollo flight software team and coined the term "Software Engineering", making the world view software as a serious engineering discipline.
John McCarty invented Lisp programming language and co-founded the field of Artificial Intelligence (1956)
Linus Torvald - boosting the adoption of open source software via Linux
Bret Victor - driving creativity and the value of fast feedback with inventing on principle
Rich Hickey - advocating design simplicity and programming fun through the Clojure programming language, a lisp for the 21^st century

Debian Linux - a long standing organisation championing Free Open Source Software and stewarding the longest running and most simple to use Linux Operating System distribution available today.
FreeDesktop.org (XDG) - supporting growth and reach of Open Source Software by maintaining standards and stewardship of projects including X11 / Wayland and tools for Unix-like operating systems