computer programmers

Presents the life stories of the creators of YouTube.

A biography of Tim Berners-Lee, focusing on the educational, personal, and professional factors that led him to create the World Wide Web.

Chronicles the history of software and profiles its creators, discussing how computers were programmed before the creation of the Fortran language in the 1950s, how software tools have been made more accessible, and how software will change in the future.

Linus Torvalds tells the story of his development of the Linux operating system for personal computers, and discusses what happened when he put early versions of his system on the Internet and invited input for its improvement.

Profiles the young Englishman who is credited with transforming the Internet, which had its origins in a defensive weapons plan, into the global information and communications system called the World Wide Web.

Tells the rags to riches story of John Carmack and John Romero, creators of the Doom and Quake video games, describing the development of the game programs, and discussing the controversy that arose over the popularity of the violent game action.

The company that is now Google began as a partnership of ideas between two Stanford University graduate students, Sergey Brin and Larry Page. This perceptive book includes sidebars on the company's innovations, a biographical fact sheet on Brin, Page, and Eric Schmidt, CEO.

A biography of the founders of YouTube, Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, discussing their individual lives and how they create YouTube.

A brief biography of Larry Page and Sergey Brin, co-founders of the Google Internet Search Engine.

A career biography of Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the two developers of the Internet search engine Google, a company whose revenue increased by more than 400,000 percent in its first five years, and includes background on the business climate in which Google was created.