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Russ Cox is a Distinguished Engineer at Google. He was a leading figure in the development of the Go programming language and environment working with co-creators Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson, and serving as technical lead for over a decade. Before Go, he created Google Code Search, which provided regular-expression-based search over the world’s open-source code and led to the widely used RE2 regular expression library. He is on the editorial board for ACM Queue, a magazine for practicing software engineers.
Read the interview at: acm.org/articles/people-of-acm/2026/russ-cox.
The People of ACM series highlights the unique scientific accomplishments and compelling personal attributes of ACM members at the forefront of advancing computing as a science and a profession. These bulletins feature ACM members whose personal and professional stories are a source of inspiration for the larger computing community.
To read more People of ACM interviews, visit: acm.org/membership/people-of-acm.
Russ Cox is a Distinguished Engineer at Google. He was a leading figure in the development of the Go programming language and environment working with co-creators Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson, and serving as technical lead for over a decade. Before Go, he created Google Code Search, which provided regular-expression-based search over the world’s open-source code and led to the widely used RE2 regular expression library. He is on the editorial board for ACM Queue, a magazine for practicing software engineers.
Read the interview at: acm.org/articles/people-of-acm/2026/russ-cox.
The People of ACM series highlights the unique scientific accomplishments and compelling personal attributes of ACM members at the forefront of advancing computing as a science and a profession. These bulletins feature ACM members whose personal and professional stories are a source of inspiration for the larger computing community.
To read more People of ACM interviews, visit: acm.org/membership/people-of-acm.
