http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almanach_de_Gotha
"The Almanach de Gotha was a respected directory of Europe's highest nobility and royalty"
James Gosling "Inventor" of Java
Grady Booch "Inventor" of UML
Edsger Dijkstra "inventor" of the Operating Systems theory
Donald Knuth researcher and author of The Art of Computer Programming
Christopher Alexander building architect often quoted for his seminal A Pattern Language
Martin Fowler writer and influencial thinker
Doug Lea father of Concurrent Java
Linus Torvalds initiator of the Linux operating system
Erich Gamma co-author of the seminal Design Patterns book
Kent Beck father of Extreme Programming and JUnit
Alan Turing, pioneer in many, many fields, not only computers - a modern times Leonardo
Tanenbaum inventor of Minix and author of a great book on Operating Systems.
Von Neumann major mathematical brain
Edgar F. Codd inventor of SQL
Dennis Ritchie, inventor of C and Unix, and his colleague Kernighan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace great mathematician who worked with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage on the Analytical Engine.
.... more to come ....
(courtesy of the Dutch National Library)
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