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In June 2018, Microsoft announced its $7.5 billion acquisition of GitHub — the world’s largest host of open-source code, home to over 28 million developers and 85 million…

Chuck Thacker co-designed the Xerox Alto — the first personal computer with a graphical user interface — and won the Turing Award for his foundational contributions to personal computing, Ethernet, and tablet hardware.

Some software engineers spend their entire careers perfecting a single product. Spencer Kimball built two that changed their respective industries — and did it decades apart. In 1995,…

Most game designers seek to entertain. Yoko Taro seeks to unsettle. Over a career spanning more than two decades, the Japanese director behind the Drakengard and NieR series…

Jun Rao co-created Apache Kafka at LinkedIn, designing the broker storage and replication layers that enable trillions of daily messages. As Confluent co-founder, he continues to shape how the world processes real-time data.

Avinash Lakshman co-authored the Amazon Dynamo paper and co-created Apache Cassandra, two systems that fundamentally changed how the world builds distributed, fault-tolerant data infrastructure at scale.

Krste Asanovic co-created RISC-V, the open-source instruction set architecture that democratized processor design. As UC Berkeley professor and SiFive co-founder, he freed chip design from proprietary licensing, reshaping the global semiconductor industry.

In 2018, a research paper quietly upended the artificial intelligence industry’s most comfortable assumption — that its systems treated everyone equally. The paper, “Gender Shades,” revealed that leading…