Harold 'Hal' Abelson, Ph.D., is Class of 1922 Professor of Computer Science and Engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, a fellow of the IEEE, and a founding director of both Creative Commons and the Free Software Foundation.
Most of his time is spent on doing nothing in particular, but when he's not doing nothing he's either programming, drawing, boxing or playing bass. He even has a cool bass tabs site. He also has a collection of stuffed owls and sometimes he talks to them and they talk back.
Thomas H. Cormen is the co-author of Introduction to Algorithms, along with Charles Leiserson, Ron Rivest, and Cliff Stein. He is a Full Professor of computer science at Dartmouth College and currently Chair of the Dartmouth College Writing Program.
Bruce Eckel is a computer programmer, author, and consultant. Eckel's best known works are Thinking in Java and the two-volume series Thinking in C++, aimed at programmers wanting to learn the Java or C++ programming languages, respectively, particularly those with little experience of object-oriented programming. Eckel was a founding member of the ANSI/ISO C++ standard committee.
Martin Fowler (b. 1963) is a software engineer, Chief Scientist at ThoughtWorks, and an outspoken advocate for best practices in enterprise software design, particularly in regard to agile software development methodologies, including extreme programming.
Sedat Kapanoglu was born in Turkey to Bosnian parents from former Yugoslavia. At 12 years old, he taught himself programming in BASIC and Z80 assembly languages by deciphering opcode tables, user manuals, and puberty. He taught himself Pascal and x86 assembly while at high school by secretly using computers at a university lab, and running away from security guards, dogs, and nosy professors, sometimes from all of them at the same time. He failed university exams, so he started working at a software company at 17. He developed GUI frameworks, medical apps, telecommunications protocols, and MRP-based applications professionally in his teenage years, and by using all the money he made from those projects, he bought a digital watch. He receive
Yegor is a software developer in Huawei; a CTO at Zerocracy, an AI-based software platform for management; a VC at SeedRamp.com; a regular blogger at www.yegor256.com; a co-author of EOLANG, an experimental object-oriented programming language; a proud holder of PMP and OCMEA certifications; a hands-on Java developer and a lead architect of Rultor.com and Takes.org. Yegor lives in Moscow, Russia.
Dr. Venkat Subramaniam, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia. Venkat helps his clients effectively apply and succeed with agile practices on their software projects. He is a frequent invited speaker at international software conferences and user groups. He's author of .NET Gotchas (O'Reilly), coauthor of the 2007 Jolt Productivity award-winning book Practices of an Agile Developer (Pragmatic Bookshelf), and author of Programming Groovy (Pragmatic Bookshelf).
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