Dr. Dobb's Excellence in Programming Award winners

• Alexander Stepanov, for his work on the C++ Standard Template Library.
• Linus Torvalds, a name synonymous with Linux.
• Larry Wall, author of Perl.
• James Gosling, chief architect of Java.
• Ronald Rivest, educator, author, and cryptographer.
• Gary Kildall, for his work in operating systems, programming languages, and user interfaces.
• Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, John Vlissides, and Ralph Johnson, authors of Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software.
• Guido van Rossum, Python's creator.
• Donald Becker, Linux networking contributor and chief investigator of the Beowulf Project.
• Jon Bentley, computer science author and researcher.
• Anders Hejlsberg, developer of Turbo Pascal and architect of C# and the .NET Framework.
• Adele Goldberg and Dan Ingalls, pioneers in Smalltalk and object-oriented programming.
• Don Chamberlin, a database researcher and coauthor of SQL.
• P.J. Plauger, a longtime champion of the C/C++ programming languages.
• Guy L. Steele, for a broad range of contributions to software development.
• Grady Booch, for his contributions to object-oriented programming, software architecture, and modeling.
• Bruce Schneier, for his contributions to computer security.
• Bjarne Stroustrup, for creating and supporting the C++ programming language.