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List last updated in 2010. I believe Fabrice Bellard deserves to be added. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrice_Bellard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrice_B
by AceJohnny2 12y ago
List last updated in 2010.
I believe Fabrice Bellard deserves to be added.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrice_Bellard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrice_Bellard
In short, created LZEXE at 17, went on the create QEMU (general CPU emulator, also used as a frontend of KVM), and FFMPEG (which pretty much every open-source (and many not) multimedia app uses).
Less famous, but still quite the accomplishment, are jsLinux, the first in-browser full Linux emulator, at one point holding the record for calculating the most digits of Pi (using a desktop computer!), creating the first software 4G LTE base station (that runs on a standard PC), and more.
- jsnk 12y agoI want to nominate John Carmack. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carmack http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carmack
- Forbo 12y agoI would nominate Jacob Appelbaum and Moxie Marlinspike. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Appelbaum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Appelbaum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moxie_Marlinspike https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moxie_Marlinspike
- xxs 12y agoMe too :) I very much expected him to be on the list.
- koonsolo 12y agoYes, I was also missing his name. The hacks he pulled off for side-scrolling in Commander Keen on PC, '3D' of Wolfenstein 3D and Doom, and of course his inverse square root implementation: http://www.codemaestro.com/reviews/9 http://www.codemaestro.com/reviews/9. He definitely deserves to be in this list.