There's a (slightly outdated) list of contributors here:
http://code.google.com/p/protobuf/source/browse/trunk/CONTRIBUTORS.txt
But I think it's probably best to list Google as the author. I did not
invent protocol buffers; I just wrote version 2 and open sourced it, and I
had help.
I don't
I'm writing up a master's project MS which has used protobufs extensively.
Is there a preferred article for crediting protobufs with? If not, I could
cite it with something like (Bibtex):
@MISC{protobuf,
title={Protocol Buffers},
author={Kenton Varda},
