A team led by this man developed a streaming algorithm to load 32k by 32k graphics into only 8 MB of memory.  
As a kid, this person's plan to steal Apple IIs ("twos") by melting school windows with homemade thermite was foiled when a chubby friend got stuck.  An algorithm invented by Sim Dietrich but popularized by this man increments and decrements the depth fail to more realistically render shadows in realtime and is known as his namesake "Reverse".  A team led by this man developed a streaming algorithm to load 32k by 32k graphics into only 8 MB of memory.  Video has recently surfaced of this (*) MegaTexture developer's PC port of Mario 3, which used a character from Dangerous Dave.  This man's current company was sued by ZeniMax on the basis that Palmer Luckey's pretty-crappy prototype sucked until this man, still a ZeniMax employee at the time, fixed it.  This Ferrari enthusiast worked at Softdisk with John Romero and is now CTO for the Oculus Rift.  For 10 points, name this legendary Id Software programmer who helped make Doom.
As a kid, this person's plan to steal Apple IIs ("twos") by melting school windows with homemade thermite was foiled when a chubby friend got stuck.  
John Carmack