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People of the 1940s

Every person in the Atlas that were born in the 1940s — 51 entries.

Decade1930s1940s1950s1960s1970s1980s1990s2000s2010s2020s
Familyprogramming languages 140operating systems 29theory 26computing 17networking 10databases 7Hardware 6Artificial intelligence 2Business 2Search 2ai 2web 2Computer graphics 1Cryptography 1
StatusAliveMaintenanceDormantDeadLostSuperseded
NameLifeStatusFieldKnown for
Alan Kay1940–Aliveprogramming languagesSmalltalk A Personal Computer for Children of All Ages The Early History of Smalltalk
Elizabeth Rather1940–Aliveprogramming languages—
Jean Ichbiah1940–2007Deadprogramming languagesAda
John Warnock1940–2023Deadprogramming languagesAdobe Systems PostScript
Martin Richards1940–Aliveprogramming languagesBCPL
Alain Colmerauer1941–2017Deadprogramming languagesProlog
Alfred Aho1941–Aliveprogramming languagesAWK
David Parnas1941–AlivetheoryOn the Criteria To Be Used in Decomposing Systems into Modules
Dennis Ritchie1941–2011Deadprogramming languagesB C The UNIX Time-Sharing System The Development of the C Language
John M. Chambers1941–Aliveprogramming languagesS
Leslie Lamport1941–AlivetheoryTime, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System
Ray Tomlinson1941–2016Deadnetworking—
Robert Kowalski1941–Aliveprogramming languages—
Brian Kernighan1942–Aliveprogramming languagesAWK
Dave Cutler1942–Aliveoperating systemsWindows NT / Windows
Gary Kildall1942–1994Deadoperating systemsDigital Research CP/M
Jeffrey Ullman1942–Alivetheory—
Peter J. Denning1942–Alivetheory—
Peter Weinberger1942–Aliveprogramming languagesAWK
Butler Lampson1943–Aliveoperating systemsHints for Computer System Design
Chuck Thacker1943–2017Deadcomputing—
David Korn1943–Aliveprogramming languagesKornShell
Jon Postel1943–1998DeadnetworkingRFC 791: Internet Protocol
Ken Thompson1943–Aliveoperating systemsB Research Unix The UNIX Time-Sharing System Reflections on Trusting Trust Plan 9 from Bell Labs Go
Michael Stonebraker1943–Alivedatabases—
Vint Cerf1943–AlivenetworkingA Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication
Andrew S. Tanenbaum1944–Aliveoperating systemsMINIX
Brad Cox1944–2021Deadprogramming languagesObjective-C
Dan Ingalls1944–Aliveprogramming languagesSmalltalk
Don Chamberlin1944–AlivedatabasesSQL
Jean-Louis Gassée1944–Aliveoperating systemsBeOS
Jim Gray1944–2012Deaddatabases—
P. J. Plauger1944–Aliveprogramming languages—
Richard GreenblattRicky Greenblatt1944–Aliveoperating systemsITS Lisp Machines, Inc.
Stephen Bourne1944–Aliveprogramming languagesBourne shell
Adele Goldberg1945–Aliveprogramming languagesSmalltalk
Larry Tesler1945–2020Deadcomputing—
Lee Felsenstein1945–Alivecomputing—
Philippe Roussel1945–Aliveprogramming languagesProlog
Bob Metcalfe1946–Alivenetworking—
David Turner1946–Aliveprogramming languagesMiranda
Gilles Kahn1946–2006Deadtheory—
L. Peter Deutsch1946–Aliveprogramming languages—
ArvindArvind Mithal1947–2024Deadtheory—
David H. D. Warren1947–Aliveprogramming languages—
Gerald Jay Sussman1947–Aliveprogramming languagesScheme Lambda: The Ultimate Imperative
Hal AbelsonHarold Abelson1947–Aliveprogramming languages—
Ray Boyce1947–1974DeaddatabasesSQL
Charles Simonyi1948–Alivecomputing—
Robert Tarjan1948–Alivetheory—
Richard P. Gabriel1949–Aliveprogramming languagesLisp: Good News, Bad News, How to Win Big