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Berkeley, Edmund C.: Father of the Personal Computer- www.blinkenlights.com/classiccmp/berkeley/ |
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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.- www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/webclass/web/project1/group6/intro.html |
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Information Sciences Hall of Fame: Biographical details for many of the people who have played an important part in the foundation of Information Science.- www.sis.pitt.edu/~mbsclass/hall_of_fame/ |
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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)- www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/ |
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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.- www.bambi.net/bob/homebrew.html |
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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.- www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/18909.html |
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Philip Emeagwali: Biography of an African American inventor, a pioneer in computing and the Internet.- black-inventors.tripod.com/Africa-Computer-Whizz.htm |
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Raymond, Eric: Open Source spokesman and author of the New Hacker's Dictionary. Resume, writings, speaking engagements, FAQ, and links.- catb.org/~esr/ |
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Tarjan, Robert E.: Algorithm and data structure researcher (see also Knuth and Dijkstra)- www.cs.princeton.edu/~ret/ |
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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.- www.wbglinks.net/pages/watchmen/ |
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Thompson, Ken: The father of the Unix operating system- plan9.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/ken/ |
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Watson, Thomas J. Jr. (1914-1993): Long-time chairman of IBM (very brief bio)- www.encyclopedia.com/html/w/watson-t1j12.asp |
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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.- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wheeler |
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Wired Magazine Archive: People: A collection of interviews with notable IT people, including computing and Internet pioneers.- www.wired.com/wired/archive/people/ |
