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Ingo Molnar is the Hungarian kernel developer behind the Linux Completely Fair Scheduler (CFS), PREEMPT_RT real-time patchset, lockdep, and ftrace. His work runs on every Linux device on the planet.

In the spring of 2009, an Italian programmer named Salvatore Sanfilippo — known across the open-source world by his handle antirez — was wrestling with a deceptively simple…

In the summer of 1998, a 23-year-old Ukrainian immigrant sat in a lecture hall at Stanford University, listening to a talk about cryptography. He had already started and…

Theo de Raadt founded OpenBSD and created OpenSSH, the secure shell implementation used by virtually every SSH connection on Earth.

In a cramped MIT dorm room in 2005, a young electrical engineering student named Limor “Ladyada” Fried soldered together a kit for an MP3 player and posted the…

On a rainy afternoon in 1995, a former English teacher from Hangzhou, China, walked into a building in Seattle, Washington, and sat down in front of a computer…

In June 1970, a 47-year-old mathematician working at IBM’s San Jose Research Laboratory published a paper in the journal Communications of the ACM. The paper was titled “A…

Hedy Lamarr co-invented frequency-hopping spread spectrum in 1942, the foundational technology behind WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, and modern cellular networks.