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1. Steven Levy

   Author of Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in the Digital Age, Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer That Changed Everything

2. Katie Hafner

   Author of Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet, Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier

3. Bruce Schneier

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

4. Eric S. Raymond

   Author of The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary, The New Hacker's Dictionary - 3rd Edition

5. James Bamford

   Author of Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency, The Puzzle Palace: Inside the National Security Agency, America's Most Secret Intelligence Organization

6. Richard Feynman

   Author of Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character), What Do You Care What Other People Think?

7. James Gleick

   Author of Chaos: Making a New Science, Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman, Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything

8. Neal Stephenson

   Author of In the Beginning...was the Command Line, Interface

9. Bruce Sterling

   Author of The Hacker Crackdown: Law And Disorder On The Electronic Frontier

10. Tracy Kidder

    Author of The Soul of a New Machine

11. Tsutomu Shimomura

    Author of Takedown: The Pursuit and Capture of Kevin Mitnick, America's Most Wanted Computer Outlaw - by the Man Who Did It

12. Michele Slatalla

    Author of Masters of Deception: The Gang That Ruled Cyberspace

13. Robert X. Cringely

    Author of Accidental empires : how the boys of Silicon Valley make their millions, battle foreign competition, and still can't get a date

14. Simon Singh

    Author of The Code Book

15. Nicholas Negroponte

    Author of Being Digital

16. David Kahn

    Author of The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet

17. Frederick P. Brooks

    Author of The Mythical Man-Month

18. Donald E. Knuth

    Author of The Art of Computer Programming: Volume 1 - Fundamental Algorithms, The Art of Computer Programming: Volume 2 - Seminumerical Algorithms, The Art of Computer Programming: Volume 3 - Sorting and Searching

19. Brian W. Kernighan

    Author of The C Programming Language (2nd Edition)

20. Larry Wall

    Author of Programming Perl