Top 10 Best Developers of all Time


The computer is a very complex machine, but people operate the same without any technical knowledge. The most lay people only interact with the GUI "graphical user interface" and the whole process that makes it work, is usually hidden.


Each element the user is watching on the desktop is created by some programmer genius. In this selection are highlighted the 10 best developers of all time according to their deeds, achievements and contribution to the community of computer science.

1- Alan Mathison Turing

Alan Turing was a computer scientist, mathematician, cryptographer, and logician. He has been called the father of theoretical computing and artificial intelligence, and it is leading the position in this selection of the top 10 developers of all time.

During World War II, he developed various techniques for breaking German ciphers. Turing built an electromechanical machine that could find Enigma machine settings.

He formalized computing and algorithm concepts with Turing machine, a machine that can be adapted to simulate the logic of any algorithms.

He was honored with Smith's Prize, Officer of the Order of the British Empire and Fellow of the Royal Society. Since 1966, the Turing Award has been given annually by the Association for Computing Machinery for contributions to the computing community.

2- Dennis Ritchie

Dennis Ritchie was a revolutionary computer scientist who played a crucial role in developing the C programming language and Unix operating system.

He was employed by Lucent Technologies and Bell Labs and defended his PhD thesis in Program Structure and Computational Complexity. However, he never officially received his PhD degree.

Dennis developed the C programming language, in which many of the used current machine language and technology are based, to include the PS4/Xbox. Ritchie created a multiuser operating system called Unix. He is also known for developing ALTRAN, B, BCPL, and Multics.

Ritchie was honored with Turing Award, IEEE Hamming Medal, Computer Pioneer Award, Computer History Museum Fellow and Harold Pender Award.

3- Linus Torvalds

Linus Torvalds is a software engineer, project and hacker coordinator, and is the man behind the Linux operating system. Linus wrote the Linux kernel code, about 2%, and the revision control system Git. And many popular OS, including Ubuntu, Fedora and Android are based on Linux. Torvalds owns the Linux trademark and monitors the use of the same.

Linus was honored with the Millennium Technology Award, along with Shinya Yamanaka for creating an operating system of open source. And also he received an EFF Pioneer Award, Lovelace Medal of the British Computer Society, and Vollum of Reed College Award.

4- Bjarne Stroustrup

Bjarne is a computer scientist, research teacher, and works in Morgan Stanley. He was a head of large-scale programming research department of Bell Labs.

Bjarne was awarded with William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement, Grace Murray Hopper Award, and was made a peer of the Computer History Museum for his invention C ++.

5- Tim Berners-Lee

Tim Berners-Lee is a computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web. He is the director of W3C, Web Science Research Initiative and a senior researcher and holder of the Founders Chair, MIT.

Tim was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his outstanding work, honored with Software System Award, Pride of Britain, and Innovative young of the year 1995.

6- Ken Thompson

Ken Thompson is a pioneer of computer science and hacker of this community. He is best known for designing and implementing the Unix operating system. Ken was honored with Turing Award, Japan Prize, IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award, Computer Pioneer Award, and also National Medal of Technology.

7- Brian Kernighan

Brian Kernighan is a computer scientist who worked at Bell Labs. Earlier in his career, he was a software editor for Prentice Hall International. Brian won the Prize of Computing Society INFORMS in 1993 and received many Teacher Awards throughout his career.

8- Bill Gates

This is the man who needs no introduction, being the richest programmer in the world whose software is used all over the world. He was honored with the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society and Bower Award for Business Leadership.

9- John Backus

John Backus was a computer scientist, best known as the developer of FORTRAN. He received a master's degree in mathematics in 1950 from the University of Colombia. Backus received W.W.McDowell Award, the National Medal of Science, ACM Turing Award, Draper Prize and named an IBM Fellow.

10- Grace Hopper


Grace Hopper was a computer scientist and rear admiral of the US Navy. And was the first woman in the world who had her name in Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society, and was Honorary Doctor of the University of Marquette of Sciences, and also National Medal of Technology in 1991.

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