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John McCarthy
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MIT professor and AI researcher who invented Lisp in 1958.
Prefers to say he "discovered" it.
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| Guy Steele |
- cocreator of Scheme
- author of Common Lisp: the Language
- coauthor of the Lambda (the Ultimate) Papers
- early contributor to Emacs
- Participated in standardization of Common Lisp.
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Paul Graham
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- author of On Lisp and ANSI Common lisp
- creator of Viaweb, the first web application ever
- founder of venture-capital company Y Combinator
- creator of Arc, a new web-oriented dialect of Lisp
- inventor of Baysian email spam filtering
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Peter Norvig
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- coauthor of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach,
the industry's leading college AI textbook
- author of Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming
- Director of Reseach for Google
- Chief of NASA's Computational Sciences Division
during the Deep Space 1 project
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| Gerald Sussman |
- coauthor of Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
- cocreator of the Scheme programming language
- professor and AI researcher at MIT
- contributed to the open-source software movement and the Free Software Foundation
- coauthor of the Lambda (the Ultimate) Papers
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Richard Stallman
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- creator of Emacs, the first self-aware text editor
- creator of Elisp, Gnu software, and the Free Software Foundation
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Kent Pitman
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participated in the development of Lisp and Scheme
- Project Editor for ANSI Common Lisp and ISO ISLISP
- coauthor of several of the Revised Reports on Scheme
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| Hal Abelson |
- coathor of Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
- contributed to the open-source software movement and the Free Software Foundation
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Peter Seibel
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- author of the popular book Practical Common Lisp
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Dan Weinreb
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cofounder of the Lisp-machine company Symbolics, Inc.
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author of the Emacs-based text editor Eine
- contributed to the design of Common Lisp
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| Edi Weitz |
One of the community's most accomplished and prolific library writers.
Created cl-ppcre (regular expressions), Hunchentoot (web-application framework),
and much more.
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Marc Battyani
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- creator of The Common Lisp Directory
- creator of mod_lisp and other CL libraries
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Daniel Barlow
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- creator of CLiki, the Common Lisp Wiki
- creator of ASDF and ASDF-INSTALL
- core contributor to SBCL
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Ron Garret |
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wrote Remote Agent, the first significantly autonomous AI in space,
which launched with Deep Space 1 in 1998
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Pascal Bourguignon
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one of the best Lispers on comp.lisp.lang
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| Pascal Costanza |
excellent Lisper and leading advocate of Common Lisp
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Erik Naggum
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excellent Lisper; opinionated, insightful curmudgeon.
last seen on comp.lisp.lang in 2002
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| David Touretzky |
author of Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Programming
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Rainer Joswig
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helpful denizen of comp.lang.lisp
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Ken Tilton
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ascerbic but often helpful Lisper and blogger
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David Lamkins |
author of Successful Lisp |
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James Gosling
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- early contributor to Emacs
- went over to the Dark Side and developed a crippled OOP language
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Slava Akhmechet
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Lisper who writes excellent articles
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Zach Beane
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operator of Planet Lisp, a Lisp blog aggregator
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John Wiseman
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operator of Lemonodor.com, "a mostly Lisp weblog" |
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Faré Rideau
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This entry is under construction.
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Bill Clementson
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Mike Schaeffer
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Greg Sullivan
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AI researcher at MIT, wrote an excellent paper on design patterns
based on Scheme
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