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Welt : English : Computers : History : Pioneers
- Babbage, Charles
- Barlow, John Perry (*)
- Bell, Gordon
- Berners-Lee, Tim (*)
- Bricklin, Daniel
- Cerf, Vinton (*)
- Cray, Seymour (*)
- Dijkstra, Edsger
- Dorner, Steve (*)
- Eckert, John Presper
- Engelbart, Douglas
- Flowers, Tommy
- Gates, Bill
- Hopper, Grace Murray
- Ingalls, Daniel
- Jobs, Steve
- Kay, Alan
- Kernighan, Brian
- Kildall, Gary
- Knuth, Donald
- Kurzweil, Raymond
- Lampson, Butler
- Lans, Håkan
- Lovelace, Ada
- Mauchly, John
- McCarthy, John
- Metcalfe, Robert
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- Miner, Jay
- Minsky, Marvin
- Moore, Gordon
- Muuss, Michael John
- Needham, Roger
- Nelson, Ted
- Neumann, John von
- Papert, Seymour
- Pausch, Randy (*)
- Postel, Jonathan (*)
- Raskin, Jef
- Ritchie, Dennis
- Sakamura, Ken (*)
- Sassenrath, Carl (*)
- Simonyi, Charles
- Sinclair, Clive
- Stallman, Richard
- Sutherland, Ivan
- Tesler, Lawrence
- Turing, Alan Mathison (*)
- Wall, Larry (*)
- Weiser, Mark
- Wiener, Norbert
- Winograd, Terry
- Wirth, Niklaus (*)
- Wozniak, Steve
- Zuse, Konrad
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- 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.
- Emeagwali, Philip - Official site of Philip Emeagwali, voted Africa's greatest scientist by New African for his work on supercomputer development. Includes booking details plus links to speeches and articles.
- Information Sciences Hall of Fame - Biographical details for many of the people who have played an important part in the foundation of Information Science.
- Licklider, J.C.R.; 1915-1990, In Memoriam - In the 1960s, Licklider published his ideas on the future role of multiaccess interactive computing: 'Man-computer Symbiosis', and 'The Computer as a Communication Device'. Downloads in 5 formats.
- Memoir of a Homebrew Computer Club Member - An original member, Bob Lash, shares memories, photographs, stories, 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.
- Naur, Peter - Introduction to the works of Peter Naur, legendary Danish computer scientist, key in the creation of Algol 60, the N in BNF. Online papers, bibliography, book. English, Dansk.
- 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)
- Thompson, Ken - The father of the Unix operating system
- 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.
- Wired Magazine Archive: People - A collection of interviews with notable IT people, including computing and Internet pioneers.
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