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Hacker Computer Pioneers
Below is a listing of computer pioneers that have been tagged as a Hacker.
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Name: Alan Kotok
Born: November 9, 1941 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Death: May 26, 2006 (Age: 65)
Computer related contributions
American computer scientist.
One of the first true Hackers.
Known for his contributions to the Internet and to the World Wide Web through his work at the
orld Wide Web Consortium.
Helped develop some of the earliest computer software including a digital audio program and what is sometimes called the first video game (Spacewar!).
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Name: Albert Gonzalez
Born: 1981
Computer related contributions
Computer Hacker and computer criminal who is accused of masterminding the combined credit card theft and subsequent reselling of more than 170 million card and ATM numbers from 2005 through 2007—the biggest such fraud in history.
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Name: Bill Gosper
Born: 1943 in Pennsauken Township, New Jersey, USA
Computer related contributions
American mathematician and programmer.
One of the founders of the hacker community along with Richard Greenblatt.
Contributed to computational mathematics with HAKMEM and the MIT Maclisp system.
Made major contributions to the Macsyma, Project MAC's computer algebra system.
Bill Gosper Website (http://gosper.org/)
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Name: Bram Cohen
Born: October 12, 1975
Computer related contributions
American computer programmer.
Author of the peer-to-peer (P2P) BitTorrent protocol, as well as the first file sharing program to use the protocol, also known as BitTorrent.
Co-founder of CodeCon, organizer of the San Francisco Bay Area P2P-hackers meeting, and the co-author of Codeville.
Honors and awards
Wired Rave Award (2004)
MIT Technology Review TR35 as one of the top 35 innovators in the world under the age of 35. (2005)
Time's 100 Most Influential People (2005)
USENIX STUG Award (2006)
Internet Evolution 100 (2010)
Quotes
"It's always hard to predict what's coming up next. My main guess is that content creators will increasingly start using BitTorrent to distribute their own work directly."
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Name: Charles P. Thacker
Born: February 26, 1943 in Pasadena, California, USA
Computer related contributions
American pioneer computer designer.
Part of University Berkley’s "Project Genie" in 1968, which developed the pioneering Berkeley
Timesharing System on the SDS 940.
Helped design the processor and memory system.
Worked at PARC, where he served as project leader of the Xerox Alto personal computer system, was co-inventor of the Ethernet LAN, and contributed to other projects including the first laser printer.
Founder of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), the Systems Research Center (SRC).
Joined Microsoft Research to help establish Microsoft Research Cambridge in Cambridge, England.
Honors and awards
Inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (1994)
Named a Distinguished Alumnus in Computer Science at U.C. Berkeley (1996)
Won the Charles Stark Draper Prize together with Alan C. Kay, Butler W. Lampson, and Robert W. Taylor (2004)
Won the IEEE John von Neumann Medal for "a central role in the creation of the personal computer and the development of networked computer systems (2007)
Inducted as a Fellow of the Computer History Museum for "leading development of the Xerox PARC Alto, and for innovations in networked personal computer systems and laser printing technologies." (2007)
Named by the Association for Computing Machinery as the recipient of the 2009 Turing Award in recognition of his pioneering design and realization of the Alto (computer), the first modern personal computer, and in addition for his contributions to the Ethernet and the tablet computer (2010)
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Name: David Heinemeier Hansson
Born: October 15, 1979 in Copenhagen, Denmark
Computer related contributions
Danish computer programmer.
Creator of Ruby on Rails web development framework and the Instiki wiki.
Partner at the web-based software development firm 37signals.
Publications
Remote: Office Not Required (2013)
Agile Web Development with Rails 3.2 (Pragmatic Programmers) (2011)
Rework (2010)
Getting Real: The smarter, faster, easier way to build a successful web application (2009)
Honors and awards
Named ALMS Rookie of the year (2012)
Jolt award of product excellence for Rails 1.0 (2006)
Ranked 34th among "50 people who matter now" by Business 2.0 (2005)
Won Best Hacker of the Year at OSCON from Google and O'Reilly (2005)
Quotes
"Workaholics don't actually accomplish more than nonworkaholics. They may claim to be perfectionists, but that just mean they're wasting time fixating on inconsequential details instead of moving on to the next task."
David Hansson on Twitter (https://twitter.com/dhh)
David Hansson Blog (http://david.heinemeierhansson.com/)
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Name: Eric S. Raymond
Born: December 4, 1957 in Boston, Massachusetts
Computer related contributions
Often referred to as ESR, is an American computer programmer, author, and open source software advocate, frequently quoted as an unofficial spokesman for the open source movement.
Known for his 1990 edit and later updates of the Jargon File, currently in print as The New Hacker's Dictionary.
Wrote CML2, a source code configuration system.
Wrote a number of HOWTOs still included in the Linux Documentation Project.
Publications
The New Hacker's Dictionary
The Cathedral and the Bazaar
The Art of Unix Programming
Quotes
"Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow"
Eric S. Raymond's Home Page (http://www.catb.org/~esr/)
Eric Raymond on Twitter (https://twitter.com/esrtweet)
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Name: Gary McKinnon
Born: February 10, 1966
Computer related contributions
Scottish systems Administrator and Hacker who was accused in 2002 of perpetrating the "biggest military computer hack of all time,"
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Name: Gina Trapani
Born: September 19, 1975 in Brooklyn, New York USA
Computer related contributions
American web developer, tech blogger, and writer known as the founder of the Lifehacker Blog which she ran from 2005-2009.
She co-hosts a netcast on the TWiT.tv network called This Week in Google with Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis as well as the In Beta podcast with Kevin Purdy on the 5by5 network
She also hosted twelve episodes of Work Smart, a weekly column, for Fast Company. Gina is currently leading development of a crowdsourcing platform (named ThinkUp) at Expert Labs.
Publications
Lifehacker: The Guide to Working Smarter, Faster, and Better (2011)
The Complete Guide to Google Wave (2010)
Upgrade Your Life: The Lifehacker Guide to Working Smarter, Faster, Better (2008).
Lifehacker: 88 Tech Tricks to Turbocharge Your Day (2006)
Honors and awards
Named Most Influential Women in Technology (2009, 2010)
Wired Magazine Rave Award (2006)
Smarterware Website (http://smarterware.org/)
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Name: Guy Lewis Steele Jr.
Born: October 2, 1954 in Missouri, USA
Computer related contributions
Often referred to as "The Great Quux" American computer scientist who has played an important role in designing and documenting several computer programming languages.
He joined the company Thinking Machines, where he helped to define and promote a parallel version of Lisp called *Lisp (Star Lisp).
In 2005, began leading a team of researchers at Sun developing a new programming language named Fortress, a high-performance language designed to obsolete Fortran.
Publications
The Java Language Specification (2005)
The High Performance Fortran Handbook (1994)
Common Lisp the Language (1984)
C: A Reference Manual (1984)
The Hacker's Dictionary (1982)
Honors and awards
Dr. Dobb's Journal Excellence in Programming Award (2005)
Named a Sun Fellow (2003)
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2002)
Member of the National Academy of Engineering of the United States of America (2001)
ACM Fellow (1994)
ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award (1988)
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Name: Jack B. Dennis
Born: Unknown
Computer related contributions
Computer scientist and retired MIT professor.
He was involved in early work on time-sharing through the PDP-1 which his research group owned at MIT; that hardware later became famous in computer science history as the machine on which hacker culture started.
He also sponsored the MIT student-run Tech Model Railroad Club in its early years, where the hacker culture is said to have taken root before spreading to the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab.
Later, he was one of the founding members of the Multics project, to which he contributed one of its most important concepts, the single-level memory.
Multics, though not particularly commercially successful in itself, was an inspiration for Ken Thompson to develop Unix.
Honors and awards
Inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (1994)
Elected to the National Academy of Engineering (2009)
Quotes
"It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure."
"Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one."
"If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG."
Jack B. Dennis Website (http://csg.csail.mit.edu/Users/dennis/)
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Name: Jeri Ellsworth
Born: 1974
Computer related contributions
American self-taught computer chip designer and entrepreneur.
She is known for creating a Commodore 64 emulator within a joystick, in 2004, called Commodore 30-in-1 Direct to TV. That "computer in a joystick" could run 30 video games from the early 1980s. The 30-in-1 was very popular during the 2004 Christmas season, selling over 70,000 units in a single day via the QVC shopping channel.
Honors and awards
Named "MacGyver of the Day" on February 25, 2010 by LifeHacker.
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Name: John Thomas Draper
Born: 1943
Computer related contributions
American computer programmer and former phone phreak using the legendary Blue Box.
Wrote EasyWriter, the first word processor for the Apple II.
Often referred to and known as Captain Crunch, Crunch, or Crunchman (after Cap'n Crunch, the mascot of a breakfast cereal). After discovering the exploit of a children's whistle to create a 2600 frequency and get free phone calls.
He is a legendary figure within the computer programming world.
Operated a pirate radio station out of a Volkswagen van.
Webcrunchers Website (http://www.webcrunchers.com/)
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Name: John Walker
Born: c.1950
Computer related contributions
Computer programmer.
Founder of Autodesk, Inc.
Co-author of AutoCAD.
In 1974/1975, he wrote the ANIMAL software, which self-replicated on UNIVAC 1100 machines: this is considered to be one of the first computer viruses.
Known for his efforts in the 196 Palindrome Quest, by taking it to 1,000,000 digits.
Publications
The Hacker's Diet (2005)
The Autodesk File (1989)
John Walker Website (http://www.fourmilab.ch/)
John Walker Blog (http://www.fourmilab.ch/fourmilog/)
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Name: Julian Assange
Born: July 3, 1971 in Townsville, Queensland, Australia
Computer related contributions
Editor, activist, political talk show host, computer programmer, hacker, publisher, and journalist from Australia.
He is best known as the editor-in-chief and founder of WikiLeaks, a media website which has published information from whistleblowers.
Around 1997, he co-invented the Rubberhose deniable encryption system, a cryptographic concept made into a software package for Linux designed to provide plausible deniability against rubber-hose cryptanalysis
In 1995, he wrote Strobe, the first free and open source port scanner.
In 1993, Assange was involved in starting one of the first public internet service providers in Australia, Suburbia Public Access Network.
Publications
Underground: Tales of Hacking, Madness, and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier (1997)
"State and Terrorist Conspiracies" (2006)
"Conspiracy as Governance" (2006)
"The Hidden Curse of Thomas Paine" (2008)
Honors and awards
Amnesty International Media Award (2009)
Readers' Choice for Time magazine's Person of the Year (2010)
Sydney Peace Foundation gold medal (2011)
Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism (2011)
Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize (2011)
Quotes
"To radically shift regime behaviour we must think clearly and boldly for if we have learned anything, it is that regimes do not want to be changed. We must think beyond those who have gone before us and discover technological changes that embolden us with ways to act in which our forebears could not."
Julian Assange Twitter Page (https://twitter.com/JulianAssange_)
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Name: Kevin Mitnick
Born: August 6, 1963
Computer related contributions
American computer security consultant, author, social engineering expert, and hacker.
Mitnick was the most-wanted computer criminal in the United States when convicted of various computer and communications related crimes in the late 20th century. On February 15, 1995 Mitnick was arrested at his apartment by the FBI. He ended up serving five years in prison.
Publications
Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker (2011)
The Art Of Intrusion: The Real Stories Behind The Exploits Of Hackers, Intruders, And Deceivers (2005)
Quotes
"As a young boy, I was taught in high school that hacking was cool."
"I was pretty much the government's poster boy for what I had done."
Mitnick Security Consulting, LLC (http://mitnicksecurity.com/)
Kevin Mitnick on Twitter (https://twitter.com/kevinmitnick)
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Name: Kevin Poulsen
Born: 1965 in Pasadena, California, USA
Computer related contributions
American former Black hat hacker who is currently News Editor at Wired.com.
His best-appreciated hack was a takeover of all of the telephone lines for Los Angeles radio station KIIS-FM, guaranteeing that he would be the 102nd caller and win the prize of a Porsche 944 S2
Publications
Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground (2011)
Kingpin: The True Story Of Max Butler, The Master Hacker Who Ran A Billion Dollar Cyber Crime Network (2011)
Honors and awards
Webby Award (International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences) (2011)
SANS Top Cyber Security Journalists (2010)
MIN Best of the Web (Magazine Industry Newsletter) (2010)
MIN Digital Hall of Fame (Magazine Industry Newsletter) (2009)
Knight-Batten Award for Innovation in Journalism (2008)
Kevin Poulsen on Twitter (https://twitter.com/kpoulsen)
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Name: Kim Dotcom
Born: January 21, 1974 in Kiel, West Germany
Computer related contributions
German-Finnish Internet entrepreneur also known as Kimble
Founder of Megaupload and its associated websites
Rose to fame in Germany in the 1990s as a teenage hacker and internet entrepreneur. He was convicted of several crimes, and received a suspended prison sentence in 1994 for computer fraud and data espionage, and another suspended prison sentence in 2003 for insider trading and embezzlement.
Launched a new project/website entitled "Mega" in January of 2013 that cloud storage service that uses encryption to protect users from government or third party "spies" from invading users' privacy.
Quotes
"It's kind of like weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, you know? If you want to go after someone and you have a political goal you will say whatever it takes. These are fabrications and lies. There are a hundred other companies out there that offer the same service like us."
Kim Dotcom Website (http://www.kim.com/)
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Name: Linus Benedict Torvalds
Born: December 28, 1969 in Helsinki, Finland
Computer related contributions
Original developer of Linux.
Publications
Open Sources: Voices from the open Source revolution
Linux Kernel Internals
The Hacker Ethic: A Radical Approach to the Philosophy of Business
Just a little fun
Quotes
"If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it."
"See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too."
"Software is like sex: it's better when it's free."
"Talk is cheap. Show me the code."
Linus Torvalds blog (http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com/)
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Name: Michael John Muuss
Born: October 16, 1958 in Iowa City, Iowa, USA
Death: November 20, 2000 (Age:42)
Computer related contributions
Author of the freeware network tool Ping which has been implemented on a large number of operating systems, initially BSD Unix, but later others including Windows and Mac OS X
Senior scientist specializing in geometric solid modeling, ray-tracing, MIMD architectures and digital computer networks at the United States Army Research Laboratory at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland
Wrote a number of software packages (including BRL-CAD) and network tools (including ttcp and the concept of the default route or "Default Gateway") and contributed to others including Bind
Muuss is mentioned in two books, The Cuckoo's Egg and Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier, for his role in tracking down crackers
Honors and awards
USENIX Association Lifetime Achievement Award (Flame) (1993)
Michael Muuss website (http://ftp.arl.army.mil/~mike/)
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Name: Paul Graham
Born: November 13, 1964 in Weymouth, Dorset, England
Computer related contributions
British programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist.
Known for his work on LISP (a family of computer programming languages).
Co-founder of Viaweb, the first application service provider (ASP) (presently Yahoo! Store).
Co-founder of the Y Combinator seed capital firm.
Publications
Hackers & Painters (2004)
ANSI Common LISP (1995)
On LISP (1993)
Honors and awards
Business Week 25 Most Influential People on the Web (2008)
Quotes
"I get a lot of criticism for telling founders to focus first on making something great, instead of worrying about how to make money. And yet that is exactly what Google did. And Apple, for that matter. You'd think examples like that would be enough to convince people."
Paul Graham on Twitter (https://twitter.com/paulg)
Paul Graham Website (http://www.paulgraham.com/)
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Name: Richard Greenblatt
Born: December 25, 1944 in Portland, Oregon USA
Computer related contributions
American computer programmer.
One of the founders of the hacker community along with Bill Gosper.
Main implementer of Maclisp on the PDP-6.
Wrote Mac Hack, the first computer program to play tournament-level chess and the first to compete in a human chess tournament.
One of the main designers of the MIT LISP machine.