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20th century

This dimension groups computing pioneers by the year they were born, showing which generation of the field they belong to. Wikipedia notes that the history of computing "extends beyond the history of computing hardware and modern computing technology," spanning a very long line of contributors born across many different generations. Browsing by born year lets a visitor compare pioneers from the same generation.

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20th century
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Abhik Roychoudhury

20th century

Adele Goldberg

20th century

Adriaan van Wijngaarden

20th century

Alain Colmerauer

20th century

Alan Kay

20th century

Alan Perlis

20th century

Alexander Stepanov

20th century

Alfred Aho

20th century

Allan L. Scherr

20th century

Amir Pnueli

20th century

Anders Hejlsberg

20th century

Anders P. Ravn

20th century

Andrew Appel

20th century

Andrew Koenig

20th century

Andrew S. Tanenbaum

20th century

Andrey Breslav

20th century

Andrey Ershov

20th century

Andrey Terekhov

20th century

Andrzej Blikle

20th century

Annie Easley

20th century

Anthony James Barr

20th century

Avie Tevanian

20th century

Barbara Liskov

20th century

Barry Boehm

20th century

Beatrice Worsley

20th century

Bernard Galler

20th century

Bert Sutherland

20th century

Bertrand Meyer

20th century

Bill Curtis

20th century

Bill Joy

20th century

Bjarne Stroustrup

20th century

Bob Frankston

20th century

Borje Langefors

20th century

Brad Cox

20th century

Brendan Eich

20th century

Brian Behlendorf

20th century

Brian Cantwell Smith

20th century

Brian K. Reid

20th century

Brian Kernighan

20th century

Brian Randell

20th century

Bruce Arden

20th century

Bryan Cantrill

20th century

Carl Adam Petri

20th century

Carl Sassenrath

20th century

Carlos José Pereira de Lucena

20th century

Carol Spradling

20th century

Charles H. Lindsey

20th century

Charles H. Moore

20th century

Chris Lattner

20th century

Christine Paulin-Mohring

20th century

Christopher Strachey

20th century

Cicely Popplewell

20th century

Colette Rolland

20th century

Cornelis H. A. Koster

20th century

Dame Stephanie Shirley

20th century

Dan Bricklin

20th century

Dan Ingalls

20th century

Dana Scott

20th century

Dana Ulery

20th century

Danese Cooper

20th century

Daniel P. Friedman

20th century

Darrell Long

20th century

Dave Cutler

20th century

David Bohnett

20th century

David Caminer

20th century

David F. Bacon

20th century

David Gries

20th century

David H. D. Warren

20th century

David Harel

20th century

David Heinemeier Hansson

20th century

David Korn

20th century

David L. Dill

20th century

David Luckham

20th century

David Parnas

20th century

David Wheeler

20th century

Dawson Engler

20th century

Dennis E. Wisnosky

20th century

Dennis Ritchie

20th century

Dines Bjorner

20th century

Diomidis Spinellis

20th century

Donald Firesmith

20th century

Dorothy Vaughan

20th century

E. Allen Emerson

20th century

Edmund M. Clarke

20th century

Edouard Bugnion

20th century

Edward G. Coffman Jr.

20th century

Edward Yourdon

20th century

Edwin E. Tozer

20th century

Eiiti Wada

20th century

Eric Allman

20th century

Eric Bina

20th century

Eric Hehner

20th century

Erich Gamma

20th century

Evi Nemeth

20th century

Fernando J. Corbato

20th century

Frances E. Allen

20th century

Francois Vernadat

20th century

Frank Land

20th century

Franklin H. Westervelt

20th century

Fred Brooks

20th century

Friedrich L. Bauer

20th century

Gary Kildall

20th century

Gerald Jay Sussman

20th century

Gérard Berry

20th century

Gérard Huet

20th century

Gerard J. Holzmann

20th century

Gernot Heiser

20th century

Gerwin Klein

20th century

Gillian Lovegrove

20th century

Glenda Schroeder

20th century

Gordon Plotkin

20th century

Grace Hopper

20th century

Grady Booch

20th century

Greg Nelson (computer scientist)

20th century

Gregor Kiczales

20th century

Guido van Rossum

20th century

Guy L. Steele Jr.

20th century

Hakon Wium Lie

20th century

Hal Abelson

20th century

Hans Langmaack

20th century

Hans Zantema

20th century

Harlan Mills

20th century

Harold W. Lawson

20th century

Harry Bouwman

20th century

He Jifeng

20th century

Heinz Rutishauser

20th century

Hussein Zedan

20th century

Ian Horrocks

20th century

Ivar Jacobson

20th century

J Strother Moore

20th century

James G. Nell

20th century

James Gosling

20th century

James Martin

20th century

James Rumbaugh

20th century

Jan Dietz

20th century

Jane Hillston

20th century

Jean E. Sammet

20th century

Jean Ichbiah

20th century

Jeanne Ferrante

20th century

Jeremy Gibbons

20th century

Jerre Noe

20th century

Joana Lopes Alves

20th century

Jochen Liedtke

20th century

John Backus

20th century

John C. Reynolds

20th century

John E. L. Peck

20th century

John Hughes

20th century

John Kemeny

20th century

John Krogstie

20th century

John Lions

20th century

John Mylopoulos

20th century

John Ousterhout

20th century

John Vlissides

20th century

Jon Michael Dunn

20th century

Jonathan Bowen

20th century

Joseph Goguen

20th century

Joseph Sifakis

20th century

Judy Clapp

20th century

Juliana Rotich

20th century

Jurg Gutknecht

20th century

Kateryna Yushchenko

20th century

Kathleen Booth

20th century

Kathryn S. McKinley

20th century

Ken Sakamura

20th century

Ken Thompson

20th century

Kenneth E. Iverson

20th century

Kim Guldstrand Larsen

20th century

Kit Cosper

20th century

Klara Dan von Neumann

20th century

Klaus Samelson

20th century

Kristen Nygaard

20th century

L. Peter Deutsch

20th century

Larry Constantine

20th century

Larry Wall

20th century

Lawrence M. Breed

20th century

Lawrence Paulson

20th century

Leonardo Chiariglione

20th century

Les Hatton

20th century

Linus Torvalds

20th century

Lionel Briand

20th century

Lisa Gelobter

20th century

Lori A. Clarke

20th century

Luca Cardelli

20th century

Maciej Stachowiak

20th century

Mads Tofte

20th century

Manfred Broy

20th century

Manny Lehman (computer scientist)

20th century

Marc Andreessen

20th century

Margaret Hamilton

20th century

Mark Bolzern

20th century

Mark N. Wegman

20th century

Marta Kwiatkowska

20th century

Martin Campbell-Kelly

20th century

Martin Fowler

20th century

Martin Odersky

20th century

Martin Richards

20th century

Mary Allen Wilkes

20th century

Mary Coombs

20th century

Mathai Joseph

20th century

Matthew Dillon

20th century

Mendel Rosenblum

20th century

Michael A. Jackson (computer scientist)

20th century

Michael E. Caspersen

20th century

Michael Kolling

20th century

Michael L. Scott

20th century

Mike Woodger

20th century

Mitchell Baker

20th century

Mitchell Kapor

20th century

Monica S. Lam

20th century

Moshe Vardi

20th century

Neil D. Jones

20th century

Nico Habermann

20th century

Nicola Pellow

20th century

Niklaus Wirth

20th century

Ole-Johan Dahl

20th century

Patrick Cousot

20th century

Paul Graham

20th century

Paul H. Cress

20th century

Paul Hudak

20th century

Pei-Yuan Wei

20th century

Per Brinch Hansen

20th century

Per Martin-Lof

20th century

Perry R. Cook

20th century

Peter Bernus

20th century

Peter J. Denning

20th century

Peter J. Weinberger

20th century

Peter Landin

20th century

Peter Naur

20th century

Peter O'Hearn

20th century

Philip Wadler

20th century

Philippa Gardner

20th century

Pierre Omidyar

20th century

Poul-Henning Kamp

20th century

Radhia Cousot

20th century

Rajeev Alur

20th century

Ralph Griswold

20th century

Randal Bryant

20th century

Rapelang Rabana

20th century

Rasmus Lerdorf

20th century

Ravi Sethi

20th century

Raymond Ozzie

20th century

Raymond Thompson

20th century

Reinhard Wilhelm

20th century

Richard DeMillo

20th century

Richard Helm

20th century

Richard P. Gabriel

20th century

Richard Rashid

20th century

Richard Stallman

20th century

Richard Veryard

20th century

Richard W. Conway

20th century

Rob Hartill

20th century

Rob Pike

20th century

Robert C. Martin

20th century

Robert Dewar

20th century

Robert France

20th century

Robert Griesemer

20th century

Robert K. Brayton

20th century

Robert L. Constable

20th century

Robert L. Glass

20th century

Robert M. Graham (computer scientist)

20th century

Robert W. Bemer

20th century

Roberto Ierusalimschy

20th century

Robin Milner

20th century

Rod Burstall

20th century

Roger Hui

20th century

Roger Moore

20th century

Rolf Drechsler

20th century

Ronald Stamper

20th century

Roy Fielding

20th century

Ryan Dahl

20th century

Saul Rosen

20th century

Sergiy Vilkomir

20th century

Simon Peyton Jones

20th century

Sjaak Brinkkemper

20th century

Stanley Gill

20th century

Stephen C. Johnson

20th century

Stephen R. Bourne

20th century

Steve Chen

20th century

Steven Spewak

20th century

Stuart Feldman

20th century

Susan L. Graham

20th century

Sven Apel

20th century

Ted Kaehler

20th century

Tércio Pacitti

20th century

Terry A. Davis

20th century

Thierry Coquand

20th century

Thomas Kurtz

20th century

Thomas W. Reps

20th century

Tobias Nipkow

20th century

Tom Crick

20th century

Tom DeMarco

20th century

Tom Maibaum

20th century

Trygve Reenskaug

20th century

Umar Saif

20th century

Victor Basili

20th century

Vikram Adve

20th century

Walter F. Tichy

20th century

Wang Xuan

20th century

Warren Teitelman

20th century

Watts Humphrey

20th century

Wes Graham

20th century

Wil van der Aalst

20th century

William Wulf

20th century

Wim Ebbinkhuijsen

20th century

Xavier Leroy

20th century

Yanhong Annie Liu

20th century

Yuanyuan Zhou

20th century

Yukihiro Matsumoto

20th century

Zhou Chaochen

20th century
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Software engineering
WikipediaSoftware engineering, Origin of the term section, pioneer subcategory use
Quote, Software engineering, Origin of the term section, pioneer subcategory use
The term appeared in a list of services offered by companies in the June 1965 issue of "Computers and Automation" and was used more formally in the August 1966 issue of Communications of the ACM (Volume 9, number 8) in "President's Letter to the ACM Membership" by Anthony A. Oettinger.
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