Andries Brouwer

Andries Evert Brouwer (born 1951) is a Dutch mathematician and computer programmer, Professor Emeritus at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). He is known as the creator of the greatly expanded 1984 to 1985 versions of the roguelike computer game ''Hack'' that formed the basis for ''NetHack''. He is also a Linux kernel hacker. He is sometimes referred to by the handle ''aeb''. Provided by Wikipedia