Table of Contents

1. Frances Allen Pioneer in optimizing compilers. First woman to win Turing Award (2006) and first woman IBM fellow. 2. Joe Armstrong Inventor of Erlang. 3. Joshua Bloch Author of Java collections framework. Now at Google. 4. Bernie Cosell One of the main software guys behind the original ARPANET IMP’s and a master debugger. 5. Douglas Crockford JSON founder, JavaScript Architect at Yahoo! 6. L. Peter Deutsch Author of Ghostscript, Implemented Smalltalk-80 at Xerox PARC and Lisp 1.5 on PDP-1. 7. Brad Fitzpatrick Wrote LiveJournal, OpenID, memcached, Perlbal. 8. Anders Hejlsberg Lead architect of C#, Architect of Delphi at Borland. Wrote what became Turbo Pascal. 9. Dan Ingalls Smalltalk implementor and designer. 10. Simon Peyton Jones Co-inventor of Haskell and lead designer of Glasgow Haskell Compiler. 11. Donald Knuth Author of The Art of Computer Programming and TeX. 12. Peter Norvig Director of Research at Google and author of the standard text on AI. 13. Guy Steele Co-inventor ofScheme and part of the Common Lisp Gang of Five. Currently working on Fortress. 14. Ken Thompson Inventor of UNIX. 15. Jamie Zawinski Author of XEmacs and early Netscape/Mozilla hacker.

About the Author

Peter Seibel is a serious developer of long standing. In the early days of the Web, he hacked Perl for Mother Jones and Organic Online. He participated in the Java revolution as an early employee at WebLogic which, after its acquisition by BEA, became the cornerstone of the latter's rapid growth in the J2EE sphere. He has also taught Java programming at UC Berkeley Extension. He is the author of Practical Common LISP from Apress.