| 1 | | | The Software Update That Changed Reality |
| | Ruchi | Sanghvi | First female engineer hired by Facebook. |
| | Mark | Zuckerberg | Co-founded and CEO of Facebook. |
| | Adam | D'Angelo | Former CTO of Facebook. |
| | Dustin | Moskovitz | Zuckerberg's roommate at Harvard. |
| | David | Choe | Graffiti artist. |
| | Ezra | Callahan | One of Facebook's early employees. |
| | Chris | Cox | Former chief product officer at Facebook. |
| | Matt | Cahill | One of Sanghvi's collaborators. |
| | Kang-Xing | Jin | One of Sanghvi's collaborators. Aka: KX. |
| | Andrew | Bosworth | Zuckerberg's former
Harvard teaching assistant. Aka: Boz. |
| | Ben | Parr | American author, venture capitalist and entrepreneur. |
| | Marc | Andreessen | Netscape co-founder. |
| | Robert | Moses | Famous city planner in New York. Aka: master builder. |
| | Brian | Kernighan | Computer scientist. Contributed to the development of Unix. |
| | Robyn | Miller | Co-designer of the popular computer game Myst. |
| | Larry | Wall | Created the Perl programming language. |
| | Danny | Hillis | Pioneered parallel computers and their use in
AI. |
| | Maciej | Cegłowski |
Polish-American web developer and entrepreneur. |
| | Joseph | Weizenbaum | German American computer scientist and a professor at MIT. |
| | Seymour | Papert | Mathematician, computer scientist, and educator. |
| | Maurice | Wilkes | Designed the Electronic delay storage automatic calculator. |
| | Scott | Hanselman | Programmer for Microsoft. |
| | Grace | Hopper | One of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer. |
| | Adele | Goldberg | Co-creator of Smalltalk language. |
| | Douglas | Rushkoff | Media
theorist, columnist and graphic novelist. |
| | Mary Allen | Wilkes | Former computer programmer and logic designer. |
| 2 | | | The Four Waves of Coders |
| | Aristotle | | Greek philosopher
during the ancient Classical period. |
| | George | Boole | Self-taught English mathematician, philosopher and logician. |
| | Gottfried | Leibniz | Polymath, logicians, mathematicians and natural philosopher. |
| | Wesley | Clark | American physicist. Design and build the LINC. |
| | Charles | Molnar | Clark's colleague. |
| | Arnold | Starr | Chair of the Department of Neurology. |
| | Bill | Gosper | American mathematician and programmer. |
| | Ricky | Greenblatt | Computer programmer. |
| | Slug | Russell | American computer scientist famous for creating Spacewar!. |
| | Steven | Levy | American journalist. |
| | David | Silver | Lead researcher on AlphaGo and co-lead on AlphaStar. |
| | Richard | Stallman | American free software movement activist and programmer. |
| | Margaret | Hamilton | American computer scientist and systems engineer. |
| | Steve | Wozniak | Co-founded Apple Inc. |
| | James | Everingham | One of the teenagers amused by VIC-20. |
| | Mr. | Clean | Everingham's hacker friend. |
| | Mike | Krieger | Co-founded Instagram. |
| | Kátia | Lund | Brazilian film director and screenwriter. |
| | Greg | Brandeau | Executive vice president at Pixar. |
| | B. J. | Fogg | Behavior scientist and author. |
| | Tristan | Harris | Built an app called Send the Sunshine |
| | Kevin | Systrom | Co-founded Instagram. |
| 3 | | | Constant Frustration and Bursts of Joy |
| | Dave | Guarino | Director and developer for Code for America. |
| | Alan | Williams | Guarino's teammates. |
| | Rob | Spectre | Consultant for counter human trafficking units across US. |
| | Thomas | Edison | American inventor and businessman. |
| | Michael | Lopp | Vice president of engineering at Slack. |
| | Jeff | Atwood | Co-founder of Stack Overflow. |
| | Max | Whitney | Programmer. |
| | Cal | Henderson | CTO and co-founder of Slack. |
| | Natasha | Dow Schüll | Anthropologist. |
| | Jacob | Thornton | Programmer. |
| | Blake | Ross | Co-creator of the Mozilla Firefox internet browser. |
| | Michael | | A guy who switched jobs into coding. |
| | Dale | Carnegie | Programmer. |
| | Matthew B. | Crawford | American writer. |
| | Chad | Fowler | Author of The Passionate Programmer. |
| | J. Edgar | Hoover | First Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. |
| | James | Baldwin | American novelist. |
| | Teresa M. | Amabile | Harvard professor. |
| | Steven J. | Kramer | Harvard researcher. |
| | Saron | Yitbarek | Programmer who founded CodeNewbie. |
| | Gabriella | Coleman | Anthropologist. |
| 4 | | | Among the INTJs |
| | Bram | Cohen | BitTorrent inventor. |
| | Andrew | Loewenstern | Cohen's friend. |
| | Jenna | | Cohen's wife. |
| | Riley | | Cohen's daughter. |
| | William H. | Whyte | Author of The Organization Man. |
| | Dallis | Perry | Psychologists. |
| | William | Cannon | Psychologists. |
| | Nathan | Ensmenger | Author of The Computer Boys Take Over. |
| | Richard | Brandon | Industry analyst. |
| | Hilary | Mason | Founder of technology startup Fast Forward Labs. |
| | David | Bill | Veteran coder. |
| | Jamie | Zawinski | Worked on the Netscape browser. |
| | Sarah | Drasner | Coder. |
| | Jean | Hollands | Psychologists. Author of The Silicon Syndrome. |
| | Jennifer 8. | Lee | American journalist. |
| | Craig | Silverstein | First person employed by Page and Brin at Google. |
| | Mo | | Hanselman's wife. |
| | Rube | Goldberg | American cartoonist, sculptor, author, engineer, and inventor. |
| | Mihály | Csíkszentmihályi | Psychologists. |
| | Jonathan | Franzen | American novelist and essayist. |
| | Mary | Shelley | English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein. |
| | Lord | Bryon | English poet, peer, and politician. |
| | Elizabeth | Churchill | Director of user experience at Google. |
| | Paul | Graham | Computer scientist, entrepreneur, vc, and essayist. |
| | Greg | Baugues | Coder |
| 5 | | | The Cult of Efficiency |
| | Jason | Ho | Hacker. |
| | Charles | Hermany | Engineer and architect. |
| | Frank | Gilbreth | American engineer, consultant, and author. |
| | Ken | Thompson | American pioneer of computer science. |
| | Lance | Ivy | Coder. |
| | Brad | Fitzpatrick | Inventor of the pioneering blogging site LiveJournal. |
| | Fred | Benenson | Coder. |
| | Nicholas | Carr | Author of The Glass Cage. |
| | Larry | Wall | Creator of Perl. |
| | Christina | | Coder in San Francisco. |
| | Jeannette | Wing | Columbia University professor. |
| | Steve | Phillips | Programmer. |
| | Chris | Thorpe | Veteran coder. |
| | Konrad | Zuse | Inventor of the first digital computer. |
| | Tim | Schafer | Video game designer |
| | Bjarne | Stroustrup | The designer of the C++. |
| | Jinghao | Yan | Engineer at Facebook. |
| | Matt | Ward | British author and miniature war gaming designer. |
| | Ezra | Pound | American poet and critic. |
| | Martin | Fowler | British software developer and author. |
| | Kent | Beck | Software engineer and the creator of extreme programming. |
| | Bryan | Cantrill | Programmer. |
| | Rob | Rhinehart | Inventor of Soylent. |
| | Ruhi | Sarikaya | Computer engineer and director Soylent. |
| | Clara | Jeffery | Editor in chief of Mother Jones. |
| | Nnamdi | Uwazie | Nigerian cabdriver. |
| | Leah | Pearlman | Former designer at Facebook. |
| | Justin | Rosenstein | Software programmer and entrepreneur. |
| | Rameet | Chawla | Tech entrepreneur. |
| | Donald | Campbell | Social psychologist. |
| | Mortimer J. | Adler | Philosopher. |
| 6 | | | 10X, Rock Stars, and the Myth of Meritocracy |
| | Max | Levchin | Developed and co-founded PayPal. |
| | Peter | Thiel | Lawyer. |
| | Sarah | Lacy | Journalist. |
| | Keith | Rabois | PayPal vice president. |
| | Emily | Chang | Journalist. |
| | David | Sacks | PayPal COO. |
| | Hal | Sackman | Researcher at System Development Corporation. |
| | Bill | Curtis | Software manager. |
| | Fred | Brooks | Author of The Mythical Man-Mont. |
| | Bill | Gates | Principal founder of Microsoft Corporation. |
| | Paul | Allen | Bill Gates's former schoolmate. |
| | Monte | Davidoff | American computer programmer. |
| | Brad | Fitzpatrick | Creator of LiveJournal. |
| | Larry | Page | Co-founded Google. |
| | Sergey | Brin | Co-founded Google. |
| | Bobby | Murphy | American Internet entrepreneur and software engineer. |
| | Satoshi | Nakamoto | Pseudonymous person or persons who developed bitcoin. |
| | John | Carmack | Video game developer and engineer. |
| | Joel | Spolsky | Co-founder of Fog Creek Software |
| | Jill | McFarlane | Bug checker. |
| | Sam | Altman | Chairman of Y Combinator. |
| | Clayton | Lewis | Computer science professor. |
| | Drew | Houston | Co-founder and CEO of Dropbox. |
| | Ben | Newhouse | One of Houston's highly productive coders. |
| | Jamie | Turner | Dropbox engineer. |
| | Meredith L. | Patterson | Programmer. |
| | Johanna | Brewer | Self taught programmer. |
| | Cynthia | Lee | Stanford professor. |
| | Tracy | Chou | Former programmer at Pinterest. |
| | Ben | Silbermann | Pinterest co-founder. |
| | Linus | Torvalds | Finnish university student. |
| | Adam | Smithian | Scottish economist, philosopher and author. |
| | Karl | Marx | German philosopher, economist, historian, political theorist. |
| | Jonathan | Hamilton | Software architect. |
| | Rick | | Self-professed rock star programmer. |
| | Bonnie | Eisenman | Programmer for Twitter. |
| | Grady | Booch | IBM coder. |
| | Sue | Gardner | Ran Wikimedia Foundation. |
| | Jacob | Kaplan-Moss | Python developer. |
| | Emily | Chang | Author of Brotopia. |
| | Robert | Frank | Economist. |
| | Josh | Levy | Longtime veteran of several Silicon Valley firms. |
| | Antonio | García Martínez | Former Facebook ad-tech employee. |
| | Johnathan | Nightingale | Former general manager of Firefox. |
| | Travis | Kalanick | Uber's former CEO. |
| | Jamie | Zawinski | Netscape coder. |
| | Peter | Norvig | Director of research at Google Inc. |
| | Neil | Malhotra | Stanford professor of political economy. |
| | Ian | Bogost | Philosopher and technologist. |
| | James | Cowling | MIT student. |
| | Jamie | Turner | Dropbox engineer. |
| | Jessica | McKellar | Director of engineering at Dropbox. |
| | Dennis | Crowley | Co-founded the social networking sites Dodgeball. |
| | Alex | Rainert | Crowley's fellow student back then. |
| | Orkut | Buyukkokten | One of Google's interviewer. |
| 7 | | | The ENIAC Girls Vanish |
| | Cate | Huston | Coder. |
| | Matt | Mullenweg | WordPress co-founder. |
| | Ada | Lovelace | English mathematician and writer. |
| | Charles | Babbage | English polymath. |
| | Janet | Abbate | Virginia Tech professor. |
| | | | ENIAC - first electronic general-purpose computer. |
| | Kathleen | McNulty | One of the ENIAC Girls. |
| | Betty | Jennings | One of the ENIAC Girls. |
| | Elizabeth | Snyder | One of the ENIAC Girls. |
| | Marlyn | Wescoff | One of the ENIAC Girls. |
| | Frances | Bilas | One of the ENIAC Girls. |
| | Ruth | Lichterman | One of the ENIAC Girls. |
| | Jean | Sammet | Developed the FORMAC programming language. |
| | Fran | Allen | Pioneer in the field of optimizing compilers. |
| | Gwen | Braithwaite | Young woman in Toronto. |
| | Elsie | Shutt | Computer programmer
founded Computation Inc. |
| | Nathan | Ensmenger | Historian. |
| | Marie | Hicks | Former UNIX administrator. |
| | Allan | Fisher | Associate dean of the computer science program at CMU. |
| | Jane | Margolis | Social scientist. |
| | Lilly | Irani | Associate professor at the University of California, |
| | Eric | Roberts | Computer science professor at Wellesley and Harvard. |
| | Ellen | Spertus | Computer scientist. |
| | Stephanie | Hurlburt | Founded a start-up called Binomial. |
| | Rich | Geldreich | Hurlburt's friend. |
| | Erica | Baker | Build-release engineer. |
| | John | Doerr | American investor and venture capitalist. |
| | Kelly | Ellis | Former Google engineer. |
| | Ellen | Pao | Investor for Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. |
| | Jenna | Jameson | Porn star. |
| | James | Damore | Senior software engineer at Google. |
| | Simon | Baron-Cohen | British clinical psychologist. |
| | Sundar | Pichai | Google CEO. |
| | Yonatan | Zunger | Former Google engineer. |
| | Roli | Varma | Social scientist. |
| | Michael | Young | British politician. |
| | Sarah-Jane | Leslie | Cognitive scientist. |
| | Maria | Klawe | President of Harvey Mudd College. |
| | Douglas | Rushkoff | Social critic. |
| | Linda | Sax | Education professor at UCLA. |
| | Susan | Fowler | Programmer. |
| | Dave | McClure | Founder of 500 Startups. |
| | Chris | Sacca | Venture capitalists. |
| | Justin | Caldbeck | Venture capitalists. |
| | Amulya | Balakrishnan | One of the creators of reVIVE. |
| | Akshaya | Dinesh | One of the creators of reVIVE. |
| | Sowmya | Patapati | One of the creators of reVIVE. |
| 8 | | | Hackers, Crackers, and Freedom Fighters |
| | Steve | Phillips | LeapChat creator. |
| | A. J. | Bahnken | Phillips's friend. |
| | Jen | Helsby | Coder for SecureDrop. |
| | Ron | Paul | American author, physician, and retired politician. |
| | Julian | Assange | Australian editor, publisher and activist. |
| | Barrett | Brown | Government-transparency activist. |
| | Brewster | Kahle | Advocate - universal access to all knowledge. |
| | Mark | Abene | Hacker in the '80s. Aka: Phiber Optik. |
| | Whit | Diffie | Computer scientist. |
| | Bobby | Inman | Former head of the NSA. |
| | Stewart | Baker | Former NSA general counsel. |
| | Daniel | Bernstein | Computer scientist. |
| | Phil | Zimmermann | American computer scientist and cryptographer. |
| | William | Safire | New York Times columnist. |
| | Matt | Blaze | Computer scientist. |
| | Richard | Parsons | Former head of Time Warner. |
| | Dmitry | Sklyarov | Russian coder. |
| | Jon Lech | Johansen | Norwegian coder. |
| | Andrew | Bunner | Charged with distributing the DeCSS code. |
| | Gabriella | Coleman | Anthropologist. |
| | Lucy | Parsons | Labor organizer, radical socialist and anarcho-communist. |
| | Edward | Snowden | Computer-security contractor for the NSA. |
| | Aaron | Swartz | Coder and activist. |
| | Lisa | Rein | Co-founder of Creative Commons. |
| | Austin | | Amateur hacker. |
| | Jason | Leopold | BuzzFeed investigative reporter. |
| | Chelsea | Manning | Army intelligence analyst. |
| | Marty | Yee | Coder. |
| | Moxie | Marlinspike | Crypto hacker. |
| | Jobert | Abma | Co-founded HackerOne. |
| | Dori | Clark | Coder for a financial service. |
| | Matt | Blaze | Researcher in secure systems and trust management. |
| | Carsten | Schürmann | Danish computer scientist. |
| | Christian | Ternus | Infosec coder. |
| | Marcus | Hutchins | Researcher for Kryptos Logic |
| | Paras | Jha | Computer science student. |
| | Brian | Krebs | Journalist. |
| | Evgeniy M. | Bogachev | One of the FBI's most-wanted hackers. |
| | John | Podesta | Former White House Chief of Staff. |
| 9 | | | Cucumbers, Skynet, and Rise of AI |
| | Fan | Hui | European Go champion. |
| | Lee | Sedol | Another elite Go player. |
| | Makoto | Koike | Japanese computer engineer. |
| | Dave | Ferrucci | Lead the development of the Watson computer system. |
| | Norah | Jones | American singer-songwriter. |
| | Yann | LeCun | French scientist. |
| | Jeff | Dean | Head of Google AI division. |
| | Sanjay | Ghemawat | Dean's colleague. |
| | Geoff | Hinton | British computer scientist. |
| | Andrew | Ng | Stanford professor. Part-time consultant for Google X. |
| | Kai-Fu | Lee | Invented the first "plain-talk speech recognition". |
| | Matt | Zeiler | Founder and CEO of Clarifai. |
| | Justin | Johnson | Researcher who works in Facebook's AI lab. |
| | Pedro | Domingos | AI pioneer at the University of Washington. |
| | Hilary | Mason | Data and machine-learning scientist. |
| | Jason | Tanz | Journalist. |
| | Andy | Rubin | Creator of Android. |
| | Jacky | Alciné | Freelance web developer. |
| | Joy | Buolamwini | African American coder. |
| | Robyn | Speer | Co-founder and chief science officer of Luminoso. |
| | Danny | Sullivan | Founder of Search Engine Watch. |
| | Cathy | O'Neil | Mathematician. |
| | Henry | Gan | Coder at Gfycat. |
| | Ali | Rahimi | AI programmer for Google. |
| | Jan | Albrecht | EU legislator from Germany. |
| | I. J. | Good | Statistician. |
| | Alan | Turing | Mathematician, computer scientist and theoretical biologist. |
| | Nick | Bostrom | Philosopher, heads Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford. |
| | Ernest | Rutherford | Physicist. |
| | Elon | Musk | Tesla founder. |
| | Hayk | Martiros | Programmer. |
| 10 | | | Scale, Trolls, and Big Tech |
| | John | Adams | Programmer. |
| | Biz | Stone | One of the founders of Twitter. |
| | Jack | Dorsey | One of the founders of Twitter. |
| | Virginia | Woolf | English writer. |
| | Tarana | Burke | Activist. |
| | Harvey | Weinstein | Former film producer. |
| | Ryan | Olson | Lead engineer for Instagram. |
| | Wang | Xing | CEO of Meituan Dianping. |
| | Oleg | Rogynskyy | Co-founder and CEO of People.ai. |
| | Kevin | Yang | Lead programmer and co-founder People.ai. |
| | James | Williams | Former Google employee. |
| | Mat | Johnson | University of Houston professor. |
| | Zeynep | Tufekci | Associate professor at the University of North Carolina. |
| | Jonathan | Albright | Researcher at Columbia University. |
| | Renée | DiResta | Author. |
| | Siva | Vaidhyanathan | Author of Antisocial Media. |
| | Dipayan | Ghosh | Worked for Facebook. |
| | Rodrigo | Duterte | President of the Philippines. |
| | Robert | Mueller | US special investigator. |
| | Donald | Rumsfeld | Former U.S. Congressman. |
| | Alex | Payne | Former coder for Twitter. |
| | Danah | Boyd | Anthropologist. |
| | Tom | Anderson | Founder of MySpace. |
| | Anil | Dash | CEO of Glitch. |
| | Fred | Turner | Communications scholar at Stanford. |
| | Wernher | von Braun | American-German aerospace engineer. |
| | Anita | Sarkeesian | Canadian-American feminist media critic and public speaker. |
| | Danielle | Citron | Professor of Law at Boston University Law School. |
| | Jonathan | Weisman | The New York Times editor. |
| | Safiya | Umoja Noble | Author of Algorithms of Oppression. |
| | Jacob H. | Andrews | Former Twitter engineer. |
| | David | Gasca | Product manager at Twitter. |
| | Brianna | Wu | Game designer. |
| | Clay | Shirky | American writer, consultant and teacher. |
| | David | Greene | Civil liberties director for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. |
| | Ron | Wyden | United States Senator. |
| | David H. | Hansson | Danish programmer and creator of popular Ruby on Rails. |
| | Tyler | Breisacher | Former Google employee. |
| | Kim | | Google employee. |
| | Diane | Greene | Head of Google Cloud. |
| | Fei-Fei | Li | Google chief AI scientist. |
| 11 | | | Blue-collar Coding |
| | Garland | Couch | Laid-off coal-mine worker in Kentucky. |
| | Rusty | Justice | Bit Source owner. |
| | Lynn | Parrish | Justice's business partner. |
| | John CC | Mayo | Investor who helped bring coal mining to the region. |
| | William | Stevens | One of the first trainee at Bit Source. |
| | Ed | Lazowska | Computer science professor at University of Washington. |
| | Avi | Flombaum | Founder of the Flatiron School. |
| | Maggie | Johnson | Google's vice president of education. |
| | C. J. | Silverio | Chief technological officer of the tech firm NPM. |
| | Santosh | Rajan | Founder of Geekskool. |
| | Luis | De Castro | One student at Dev Bootcamp. |
| | Mitch | Pronschinske | Former editor at TechBeacon. |
| | Tressie M. | Cottom | American writer, sociologist, and professor. |
| | Quincy | Larson | Ran an English schools in China. |
| | Andrew | Charlebois | Carpenter. |
| | Jake | Hsu | Catalyte's CEO. |
| | Carolina | Erickson | One of Catalyte's employee. |
| | David | Kalt | CEO of Reverb. |
| | Miriam | Posner | Coder who teaches Information Studies at UCLA. |
| | Edsger W. | Dijkstra | Pioneering computer scientist. |
| | John | McCarthy | Computer scientist. |
| | Seymour | Papert | MIT's pioneering educational theorist. |
| | Ian | Bogost | Philosopher and game designer. |
| | Oliver | Brotherhood | British Minecraft YouTuber. Aka: Mumbo Jumbo. |
| | Jens | Bergensten | Lead Minecraft developer. |
