List of notable Sun Microsystems employees
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These notable people work or used to work at Sun.
- Jonathan I. Schwartz, President and CEO of Sun
- Steve Bourne, author of the Bourne shell
- Tim Bray, Director of Web Technologies
- Bryan Cantrill, of 2005 Technology Review "Top 35 Young Innovators"
- Alfred Chuang, co-founder of BEA Systems
- Whitfield Diffie, Chief Security Officer, co-inventor of public key cryptography
- Robert Drost, of 2004 Technology Review "Top 100 Young Innovators"
- Dan Farmer, computer security researcher
- John Gage, Chief Researcher
- James Gosling, co-inventor of Java
- Larry McVoy, CEO of BitMover
- Chris Malachowsky, co-founder of NVIDIA
- Patrick Naughton, Java language project initiator
- Jakob Nielsen, web-design usability authority
- John Ousterhout, inventor of the Tcl scripting language
- Greg Papadopoulos, Executive Vice President and CTO
- Radia Perlman, sometimes known as the "Mother of the Internet"
- Kim Polese, prominent dot-com era executive
- Curtis Priem, co-founder of NVIDIA
- Bob Scheifler, leader of X Window System development from 1984 to 1996
- Eric Schmidt, former Chief Technology Officer of Sun, currently CEO of Google, Inc.
- Guy L. Steele, Jr., co-inventor of the Scheme Scheme programming language and member of IEEE standards committees of many programming languages.
- Bert Sutherland, manager of Sun Labs, Xerox PARC, BBN Computer Science Division
- Ivan Sutherland, computer graphics pioneer
- Bud Tribble, Former VP of software development at NeXT, current VP of software technology at Apple
- Bill Vass, President and COO of Sun Microsystems Federal, Inc.
- Edward Zander, CEO of Motorola