The who is who of unix operating systems!
| Name | Education, Experience | Contributions to Unix |
| Ken Thompson | B.Sc., M.Sc. EE, Berkeley 65, 66; BL 66- | B, bas, Fortran (with Ritchie), ed, roff, sort, grep, uniq, plot, sa, dd |
| Dennis Ritchie | B.A. Physics, Harvard 63;Ph.D. Appl. Math, Harvard 68 (diss on subrecursive hierarchies of functions);BL 68- | C, fork-exec, set-userid, db, ed, I/O stream in v8; (with Thompson) fc (fortran iv); (with Johnson), port to Interdata |
| Joe Osanna | n/troff | |
| Bob Morris | typo, math library, primes, factor, crypt (with Cherry) dc-bc |
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| Doug McIlroy | B.E.P. Eng’g Physics, Cornell 54; Ph.D. Math, MIT 59; BL 58- | tmg, speak, diff, join, look. dict, spell |
| Lorinda Cherry | M.S. Computer Science, Stevens 69 | eqn (startup), parts |
| Steve Johnson | yacc, lint, portable C, spell | |
| Lee McMahon | B.A., M.A. St. Louis University; Ph.D. Psychology, Harvard; BL 63-89 | comm, qsort, sed, grep, index, cref, cu, architect for Datakit |
 Brian Kernighan |
A.M., Ph.D. EECS, Princeton 66, 69 | name UNIX, notion of tools, ratfor, eqn, awk, pic. dvi troff |
| Steve Bourne | adb, Bourne shell extended and named Unix Circuit Design System (UCDS) |
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 Mike Lesk |
-ms, tbl, refer, lex, uucp, apnews, weather (with Kernighan) learn |
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| Stu Feldman | B.A. Astrophysics, Princeton; Ph.D. Astrophysics, MIT | f77, make (with Andy Hall) efl |
| Peter Weinberger | B.S. Math, Swarthmore 64; Ph.D. Math, Berkeley 69; Bellcomm, Inc. 69-70; Instr., Asst Prof, Michigan 70-76; BL 1976- | awk, I/O lib for f77, mp, afactor, cbt (B-tree lib) |
| A.G. (Sandy) Fraser | B.Sc. Aero Eng’g, Bristol 58; Ph.D., Computing Science, Cambridge 69; BL 69-; Head, Computer System Research 77- | Datakit, nfs, ufs original version of UCDS |
| Joe Condon | UCDS | |
| Al Aho | B.A.Sc. Eng’g. Physics, Toronto 63; M.A., Ph.D. EECS, Princeton 65, 67; BL 66– | awk, egrep, fgrep, language theory and algorithms |
| Greg Chesson | Ph.D. U. Illinois, 77 |
communications, mpx, con, dcon, |
| Berk Tague | USG | |
| Joe Maranzano | USG | |
| Dick Haight | PWB | |
| Ted Dolotta | A.M, M.S.E., Ph.D. Elec.Eng., Princeton 57, 57, 61 | PWB |
| John Reiser | bitblt (with Tom London) port to VAX + paging, V32 system –> Berkeley |
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| P.J. (Bill) Plauger | A.B. Physics Princeton, 65; Ph.D. Nuclear Physics, Mich. St., 69 | tools |
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