Since the 7th edition, we pay tribute to some of the fathers of Computer Science choosing their names as our room names.

Each one of them is important in so many areas, from creating algorithms, going through building new hardwares, and developing program languages. Their work will always be remembered, cited, used and reinvented.

These are the homaged:

• Ada Byron: a.k.a Augusta Ada King, countess of Lovelace (10/dez/1815 – 27/nov/1852) born Augusta Ada Byron, is mainly known for having written a description of Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the analytical engine. Ada was homaged in 1980 by the US defense Department by giving her name to Ada language.
• Alan Turing: (23/jun/1912 – 7/jun/1954) was an English mathematician, logician, and cryptographer. Turing is often considered to be the father of modern computer science. Turing provided an influential formalisation of the concept of the algorithm and computation with the Turing machine, formulating the now widely accepted "Turing" version of the Church–Turing thesis, namely that any practical computing model has either the equivalent or a subset of the capabilities of a Turing machine. With the Turing test, he made a significant and characteristically provocative contribution to the debate regarding artificial intelligence: whether it will ever be possible to say that a machine is conscious and can think.
• Alisson Randal: is a linguist, software developer and author. She is the chief architect of the Parrot virtual machine" and a member of the board of directors for The Perl Foundation. She is co-author of Perl 6 and Parrot Essentials and the Synopses of Perl 6. She is employed by O'Reilly Media.
• Alonzo Church: (14/jun/1903 – 11/ago/1995) was an American mathematician and logician who was responsible for some of the foundations of theoretical computer science. He is best known by the description of lambda calculation which, along with Turing machine, forms the base for the Chuch-Turing postulate: "given ilimited time and space, any calculation can be performed by means of computer algorithms". Lambda calculations also forms the base for Lisp language.
• Andrew Tanenbaum: Andrew Stuart "Andy" Tanenbaum (born 1944) is a professor of computer science at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam in the Netherlands. He is the author of Minix, a Unix-like operating system for teaching purposes, and for his computer science textbooks.
• Charles Babbage: (26/dec/1791 – 18/oct/1871) was an English mathematician, philosopher, mechanical engineer and (proto-) computer scientist who originated the idea of a programmable computer. Parts of his uncompleted mechanisms are on display in the London Science Museum. In 1991, working from Babbage's original plans, a difference engine was completed, and functioned perfectly. Built to tolerances achievable in the 19th century, the finished engine indicated that Babbage's machine would have worked. Nine years later, the Science Museum completed the printer Babbage had designed for the difference engine; it featured astonishing complexity for a 19th century device.
• Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie: (September 9, 1941). He is an computer scientis notable for his influence on ALTRAN, B, BCPL, C, Multics e Unix. He received the Turing Award in 1983 and the National Medal of Tecnology in 1998. Ritchie is currently the head of Lucent Technologies' System Software Research Department.
• Edsger Dijkstra: (11/mai/1930 – 6/ago/2002) was a Dutch computer scientist. He received the 1972 A. M. Turing Award for fundamental contributions in the area of programming languages, and was the Schlumberger Centennial Chair of Computer Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin from 1984 until his death in 2002. Shortly before his death, he received the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) PODC Influential paper award in distributed computing for his paper that started the subarea of self-stabilization. Among his contributions the shortest-path algorithm and the semaphore construction. Besides that, he is responsible for a famous article published in 1968 which alerts about the dangers of "goto" constructions.
• Eric Steve Raymond: (December 4, 1957) is a american famous hacker. Author of The Cathedral and the Bazzar and he is the maintainer of the Jargon File, know as The Hacker's Dictionary. A high-profile representative of the open source and the free software movements. Raymond coined the aphorism"Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow."
• Gordon Earl Moore: (January 3, 1929) is the co-founder and Chairman Emeritus of Intel Corporation and the autor of Moore's Law.
• Grace Murray Hopper: (January 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992) was one of the pioneers of computing science. She developed the first compiler for a computing language (COBOL) and was the first programer for the Mark I. Besides, she was pioneer in the development of standardized computer tests, having focused in COBOL and Fortran. It was during the tests of Mark II, under Hopper's command, that the first "bug" (a moth) was found.
• Guido van Rossum: is a Dutch computer programmer who is best known as the author of the Python programming language. In the Python community, Van Rossum is known as a "Benevolent Dictator for Life" , meaning that he continues to oversee the Python development process, making decisions where necessary.
• Haskell Brooks Curry: (September 12, 1900 - September 1, 1982) was an north-american matematician considered the founder of combinatory logics, work compared to the lambda calculation by Alonzo Church, responsible for the inspiration for a whole family of programming languages. Haskell and Curry languagem beares their names as a tribute to them.
• James Gosling: (May 19, 1955) canadian software developer, best known as the father of the Java programming language.
• Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales: (August 7, 1966) co-founder of Wikipedia. He is an Internet entrepreneur and a enthusiast of the wiki system.
• Jon Maddog Hall: one of founders of international open source movement. He works with informatics since 1969, he uses Unix since 1977 and Linux since 1994. Since 1995 he is the Executive Director of Linux International, a non-profit organization of computer vendors who wish to support and promote Linux based operating systems.

• John von Neumann: (December 2, 1903 – February 8, 1957) was a Hungarian-born mathematician and polymath who made contributions to quantum physics, functional analysis, set theory, topology, economics, computer science, numerical analysis, hydrodynamics (of explosions), statistics and many other mathematical fields as one of history's outstanding mathematicians. Most notably, von Neumann was a pioneer of the application of operator theory to quantum mechanics.
• José Mauro Volkmer de Castilho: (1946 – 8/mar/1998) was a brazilian engineer and computing scientist responsible for research in the database and artificial inteligence areas, among them those that forms the base of the state-space approach and database re-engineering and of several works in the heuristics analysis.
• Linus Benedict Torvalds: (28/dez/1969) author of Linux kernel. Do I need to say something else?
• Marcelo Wormsbecker Tossati: (May 27, 1982) Brazilian programmer, maintainer of the stable 2.4 kernel Linux series between November 2001 and August 2006. Currently, he works for Red Hat, building softwares for One Laptop per Child project.
• Paul Graham: (1946) Lisp programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist. He is the author of On Lisp (1993), ANSI Common Lisp (1995), and Hackers & Painters (2004). In 1995 Graham and Robert Morris founded Viaweb, the first application service provider. Viaweb's software, originally written in a mix of Common Lisp, C, and Perl, allowed users to make their own Internet stores.
• Radia Perlman: software designer and network engineer sometimes referred to as the 'Mother of the Internet'. She is most famous for her invention of the spanning-tree protocol, which is fundamental to the operation of network bridges. She also made large contributions to many other areas of network design and standardization such as link-state protocols.
• Richard Stallman: (March 16, 1953) founder of free software movement. idem Linus Torvalds.
• Stephan Gary "Woz" Wozniak: (August 11, 1950) American computer engineer and the co-founder of Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.), with Steve Jobs.

• Timothy John Berners-Lee: (June 8, 1955) developer and inventor of the World Wide Web and the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Tim Berners-Lee is one of of Top 100 Living Geniuses, listed in survey of Creators Synectics.
• Zaheda Bhorat: has been an Open Source advocate since managing the OpenOffice.org project and community while working for Sun Microsystems Inc. Zaheda has recently joined Google, managing Open Source Programs, living in London.