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Pioneers
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| Categories: | - Babbage, Charles
- Barlow, John Perry
- Berners-Lee, Tim
- Bricklin, Daniel
- Cerf, Vinton
- Cray, Seymour
- Dijkstra, Edsger
- Dorner, Steve
- Engelbart, Douglas
- Flowers, Tommy
- Gates, Bill
- Hopper, Grace Murray
- Internet
- Jobs, Steve
- Kay, Alan
- Kernighan, Brian
- Kildall, Gary
- Knuth, Donald
- Lampson, Butler
- Lans, Håkan
- Lovelace, Ada
| - Miner, Jay
- Minsky, Marvin
- Muuss, Michael John
- Needham, Roger
- Nelson, Ted
- Neumann, John von
- Papert, Seymour
- Postel, Jonathan
- Raskin, Jef
- Ritchie, Dennis
- Sakamura, Ken
- Sinclair, Clive
- Stallman, Richard
- Sutherland, Ivan
- Turing, Alan Mathison
- Wall, Larry
- Wiener, Norbert
- Wirth, Niklaus
- Wozniak, Steve
- Zuse, Konrad
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| Listings: | - Weiser, Mark (1952-1999): In Memoriam - Memorial site for the creator of "calm computing" / "ubiquitous computing"
- 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.
- 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)
- Metcalfe, Bob, The Legend of - Wired article
- Tarjan, Robert E. - Algorithm and data structure researcher (see also Knuth and Dijkstra)
- Thompson, Ken - The father of the Unix operating system
- 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.
- Berkeley, Edmund C. - Father of the Personal Computer
- 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.
- 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.
- Raymond, Eric - Open Source spokesman and author of the New Hacker's Dictionary. Resume, writings, speaking engagements, FAQ, and links.
- Watson, Thomas J. Jr. (1914-1993) - Long-time chairman of IBM (very brief bio)
- Information Sciences Hall of Fame - Biographical details for many of the people who have played an important part in the foundation of Information Science.
- 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.
- 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.
- Philip Emeagwali - Biography of an African American inventor, a pioneer in computing and the Internet. [PDF]
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