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| Berners-Lee, Tim@ |
Bricklin, Daniel |
| Barlow, John Perry@ |
Babbage, Charles |
| Cerf, Vinton@ |
Cray, Seymour@ |
| Dijkstra, Edsger |
Dorner, Steve@ |
| Engelbart, Douglas |
Flowers, Tommy |
| Gates, Bill |
Hopper, Grace Murray |
| Jobs, Steve |
Kernighan, Brian |
| Kildall, Gary |
Knuth, Donald |
| Kay, Alan |
Lovelace, Ada |
| Lampson, Butler |
Lans, Håkan |
| Miner, Jay |
Minsky, Marvin |
| Muuss, Michael John |
Needham, Roger |
| Nelson, Ted |
Neumann, John von |
| Postel, Jonathan@ |
Papert, Seymour |
| Ritchie, Dennis |
Raskin, Jef@ |
| Sinclair, Clive |
Stallman, Richard |
| Sutherland, Ivan |
Sakamura, Ken@ |
| Turing, Alan Mathison@ |
Wiener, Norbert |
| Wirth, Niklaus@ |
Wozniak, Steve |
| Wall, Larry@ |
Zuse, Konrad |
See Also:
- Berkeley, Edmund C.: Father of the Personal Computer
- Bush, Vannevar: As We Are Thinking: Commentary on Bush's classic 1945 article 'As We May Think', which many view as the first clear description of hypermedia; by a class from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
- Information Sciences Hall of Fame: Biographical details for many of the people who have played an important part in the foundation of Information Science.
- McCarthy, John: Inventor of the Lisp programming language, arguably the oldest language in active use today (and a likely candidate for oldest high-level language overall, in competition with Fortran)
- Memoir of a Homebrew Computer Club Member: An original Homebrew Computer Club member, Bob Lash, shares memories, photographs, stories and diagrams from the early days of personal computing.
- Metcalfe, Bob, The Legend of: Wired article
- Microsoft Altair BASIC Legend Talks about Linux, CPRM and that Very Frightening Photo: An interview with Monte Davidoff regarding the 4K BASIC interpreter he wrote with Gates and Allen.
- Philip Emeagwali: Biography of an African American inventor, a pioneer in computing and the Internet.
- Raymond, Eric: Open Source spokesman and author of the New Hacker's Dictionary. Resume, writings, speaking engagements, FAQ, and links.
- Tarjan, Robert E.: Algorithm and data structure researcher (see also Knuth and Dijkstra)
- The Faces in Front of the Monitors: Pictures of people who have made a mark in any of the following: programmable computer systems, computer networks, the Internet or the security involved with those systems.
- Thompson, Ken: The father of the Unix operating system
- Watson, Thomas J. Jr. (1914-1993): Long-time chairman of IBM (very brief bio)
- Weiser, Mark (1952-1999): In Memoriam: Memorial site for the creator of "calm computing" / "ubiquitous computing"
- Wheeler, David: Wikipedia biography of one of the pioneers of the Edsac computer at Cambridge, who helped to develop programming language. Includes links to obituaries.
- Winograd, Terry: Terry Winograd is one of the foreground figures in research into human/computer interaction and natural language systems
- Wired Magazine Archive: People: A collection of interviews with notable IT people, including computing and Internet pioneers.
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