Rob Pike
Rob Pike was a member of the Unix team at Bell Labs. He is an Olympic silver medalist in archery, an amateur astronomer (a gamma-ray telescope he designed was nearly launched by the Space Shuttle), and an early developer of Unix and windowing system (GUI) technology. Pike has also been involved in the creation of the Plan 9 and the Inferno operating systems.Pike has also appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman, as a technical assistant to the comedy duo Penn and Teller. Pike, with Brian Kernighan, is the co-author of The Practice of Programming and The UNIX Programming Environment. With Ken Thompson he is the co-creator of UTF-8.