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This is a list of programmers notable for their contributions to software, either as original author or architect, or for later additions.
See also: Game programmer, List of computer scientists
A - B - C - D - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N - R - S - T - V - W - Z
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Leonard Adleman - co-inventor of the RSA algorithm (the A in the name stands for Adleman), coined the term computer virus
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B
David Bradley - coder on the IBM PC project team who wrote the Control-Alt-Delete keyboard handler, embedded in all PC-compatible BIOSes
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C
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D - F
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G - H
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I - J
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K - L
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M
Lou Montulli - creator of Lynx browser, cookies, the blink tag, server push and client pull, HTTP proxying, HTTP over SSL, browser integration with animated GIFs, founding member of HTML working group at W3C
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Rob Pike - Wrote first bitmaped window system for Unix, co-creator of UTF-8 character encoding, author of text editor sam and programming environment acme, main author of Plan 9 and Inferno operating systems
Ron Rivest - co-inventor of the RSA algorithm (the R in the name stands for Rivest)
Benoit Minisini - Creator of Gambas, a Visual Basic like programming language.
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Adi Shamir - co-inventor of the RSA algorithm (the S in the name stands for Shamir)
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T - V
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W - Z
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