Donald E. Knuth

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1. Donald E. Knuth

   Author of The Art of Computer Programming: Volume 1 - Fundamental Algorithms, The Art of Computer Programming: Volume 3 - Sorting and Searching, Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About (Center for the Study of Language and Information - Lecture Notes)

2. Brian W. Kernighan

   Author of The Practice of Programming, The UNIX Programming Environment, Software Tools in Pascal

3. Alfred V. Aho

   Author of Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools, The AWK Programming Language, The Design and Analysis of Computer Algorithms (Addison-Wesley Series in Computer Science and Information Processing)

4. W. Richard Stevens

   Author of Advanced Programming in the UNIX(R) Environment (2nd Edition) (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series), TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1: The Protocols, TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 3: TCP for Transactions, HTTP, NNTP, and the UNIX Domain Protocols

5. Michel Goossens

   Author of The LaTeX Companion, The LaTeX Graphics Companion: Illustrating Documents with TeX and Postscript(R), The LaTeX Web Companion: Integrating TeX, HTML, and XML

6. Adobe Creative Team

   Author of PostScript(R) Language Reference Manual (2nd Edition), PostScript(R) Language Tutorial and Cookbook, PostScript(R) Language Program Design

7. Jon Louis Bentley

   Author of Programming Pearls, More Programming Pearls: Confessions of a Coder

8. Bjarne Stroustrup

   Author of The C++ Programming Language, The Design and Evolution of C++

9. Harold Abelson

   Author of Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

10. Thomas H. Cormen

    Author of Introduction to Algorithms

11. Andrew S. Tanenbaum

    Author of Computer Networks, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation

12. Scott Meyers

    Author of More Effective C++: 35 New Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs, Effective C++: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your Programs and Design (2nd Edition)

13. Ronald L. Graham

    Author of Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science

14. Douglas Hofstadter

    Author of Metamagical Themas: Questing For The Essence Of Mind And Pattern, Fluid Concepts & Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought

15. Daniel P. Friedman

    Author of The Little Schemer, The Seasoned Schemer, The Reasoned Schemer

16. Bruce Schneier

    Author of Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C, Second Edition, Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World

17. G. H. Hardy

    Author of A Mathematician's Apology, An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers, A Course of Pure Mathematics

18. Erich Gamma

    Author of Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software

19. Steven Skiena

    Author of The Algorithm Design Manual, Programming Challenges

20. Paul Graham

    Author of Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age, ANSI Common LISP