Long Hall
The Ones Who Made a Mark in CyberSpace
CyberSpace Personalities & Achievements
| Person | Achievement | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Aaron Swartz | RSS 1.0 Specification | 2000 |
| Creative Commons Technical Infrastructure | 2002 | |
| Demand Progress (SOPA/PIPA fight) | 2010 | |
| Linus Torvalds | Linux Kernel | 1991 |
| Git | 2005 | |
| Kevin Mitnick | Social-engineered his way into Pentagon, IBM and Nokia systems | 1994 |
| The Art of Deception — published | 2002 | |
| Founded Mitnick Security Consulting | 2003 | |
| Tim Berners-Lee | World Wide Web | 1989 |
| HTTP | 1989 | |
| HTML | 1991 | |
| Phil Zimmermann | Created PGP — Pretty Good Privacy | 1991 |
| Founded PGP Inc. | 1996 | |
| Co-founded Silent Circle (encrypted communications) | 2012 | |
| Richard Stallman | GNU Project | 1983 |
| Emacs | 1985 | |
| GCC | 1987 | |
| Bjarne Stroustrup | C++ | 1983 |
| The C++ Programming Language Book | 1985 | |
| John Perry Barlow | Co-founded Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) | 1990 |
| A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace | 1996 | |
| Coined the term 'cyberspace rights' as a political concept | 1990 | |
| Vint Cerf | TCP/IP Protocol (with Robert Kahn) | 1974 |
| Internet Architecture | 1983 | |
| InterPlanetary Internet Concept | 1998 | |
| Ken Thompson | Unix | 1969 |
| B Language | 1969 | |
| Go Language | 2009 | |
| Brian Kernighan | Wrote the first 'Hello, World!' program | 1972 |
| Co-created AWK programming language | 1977 | |
| Co-authored The C Programming Language (K&R) with Dennis Ritchie | 1978 | |
| Dennis Ritchie | Unix | 1969 |
| C Language | 1972 | |
| The C Programming Language Book | 1978 | |
| Margaret Hamilton | Apollo Guidance Computer Software | 1969 |
| Coined Term 'Software Engineering' | 1968 | |
| Presidential Medal of Freedom | 2016 | |
| John McCarthy | Organized the Dartmouth Conference — birth of AI as a field | 1956 |
| Coined the term 'Artificial Intelligence' | 1956 | |
| Created LISP programming language | 1958 | |
| Douglas Engelbart | Computer Mouse | 1964 |
| NLS (oNLine System) | 1968 | |
| The Mother of All Demos | 1968 | |
| Hypertext & Collaborative Computing | 1968 | |
| Claude Shannon | Boolean Algebra for Digital Circuits | 1937 |
| A Mathematical Theory of Communication | 1948 | |
| Information Theory | 1948 | |
| Alan Turing | Turing Machine | 1936 |
| Enigma Codebreaking | 1941 | |
| Turing Test | 1950 | |
| Grace Hopper | First Compiler | 1952 |
| COBOL | 1959 | |
| Debugging Term | 1947 | |
| Ada Lovelace | First Computer Program | 1843 |
| Analytical Engine Notes | 1843 |