Richard Morris Luca Cardelli: Geek of the Week Luca Cardelli is probably best known for Polyphonic C# and Biocomputing, but he has designed a number of experimental languages... 02 September 2009 7 min read
Richard Morris Sir Tony Hoare: Geek of the Week After inventing the QuickSort algorithm, and designing the compiler for the Algol 60 programming language, Tony Hoare went on to... 18 August 2009 14 min read
Richard Morris Chuck Moore: Geek of the Week Charles Moore is one of the greatest ever programmers. The 'Forth' language he invented is still in use today, particularly... 05 August 2009 13 min read
Richard Morris Richard Stallman: Geek of the Week Many famous geeks work away at their programs without considering the wider implications of what they, and others, are doing.... 20 July 2009 12 min read
Richard Morris Niklaus Wirth: Geek of the Week It is difficult to begin to estimate the huge extent of the contribution that Niklaus Wirth has made to IT... 02 July 2009 11 min read
Richard Morris Craig Newmark: Geek of the Week Occasionally, readers of Simple-Talk will ask quizzically if the 'Geek of the Week' that the editors have chosen really is... 15 June 2009 9 min read
Richard Morris Marc Wick: Geek of the Week Marc Wick is the genius behind GeoNames, the free Web Service that powers a number of popular GPS applications and... 06 May 2009 8 min read
Richard Morris Anders Hejlsberg: Geek of the Week Anders Hejlsberg, the creative genius behind C#, and much of the .NET framework, had already been famous for sixteen years... 19 March 2009 10 min read
Richard Morris Gail Shaw: Geek of the Week Gail Shaw, the fabled 'gilamonster', earned her MVP, and the gratitude of a great number of SQL Server professional seeking... 09 March 2009 12 min read
Richard Morris Michael Meeks: Geek of the Week Richard Morris talks to Michael Meeks, a young Geek who has made a huge impact on the quality of Open... 09 February 2009 14 min read
Richard Morris Larry Gonick: Geek of the Week Cartoonist, mathematician, historian and environmentalist. Larry Gonick proved that learning could be fun by producing a wide range of educational... 08 January 2009 11 min read
Richard Morris Bjarne Stroustrup: Geek of the Week Without Bjarne Stroustrup, object-oriented programming would have taken much longer to gain mainstream acceptance. Bjarne wrote and popularised 'C with... 12 December 2008 16 min read
Richard Morris Verity Stob: Geek of the Week Real geeks read Verity Stob. Verity writes her painfully funny invective from a powerful advantage, she is a geek herself,... 27 November 2008 16 min read
Richard Morris ‘Peli’ de Halleux: Geek of the Week It is extraordinary how much 'Peli' has achieved in a short space of time. Here, our choice for Geek of... 21 October 2008 9 min read
Richard Morris Kalen Delaney: Geek of the Week Kalen Delaney has been involved in SQL Server from the beginning. Her talks and her writings are always interesting but,... 16 September 2008 14 min read
Richard Morris Andrew Tanenbaum: Geek of the Week Andrew Tanenbaum has had an immense influence on the way that operating systems are designed. He provided the inspiration for... 14 August 2008 9 min read
Richard Morris Ross Anderson: Geek of the Week Professor Ross Anderson is one of the foremost experts in Computer Security in the world. He has published widely on... 31 July 2008 13 min read
Richard Morris Linus Torvalds: Geek of the Week Linus Torvalds is remarkable, not only for being the technical genius who wrote Linux, but for then being able to... 17 July 2008 23 min read
Richard Morris Dr Richard Hipp, Geek of the Week Simple-Talk's Geek of the Week is Dr Richard Hipp. His code is probably running on your PC, and running completely... 04 July 2008 13 min read
Richard Morris Tim Berners-Lee, Geek of the Week We interview Simple-Talk's Geek of the Week, Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee OM KBE FRS FREng FRSA. , ranked first in... 20 June 2008 11 min read
