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Babbage, Charles  (8) Barlow, John Perry@  (20) Berners-Lee, Tim@  (6) Bricklin, Daniel  (2) Cerf, Vinton@  (6) Cray, Seymour@  (3) Dijkstra, Edsger  (6) Dorner, Steve@  (3) Engelbart, Douglas  (23) Flowers, Tommy  (3) Gates, Bill  (17) Hopper, Grace Murray  (10) Internet@  (43) Jobs, Steve  (16) Kay, Alan  (10) Kernighan, Brian  (2) Kildall, Gary  (3) Knuth, Donald  (9) Lampson, Butler  (5) Lans, HÃ¥kan  (3) Lovelace, Ada  (12)

Miner, Jay  (1) Minsky, Marvin  (8) Muuss, Michael John  (7) Needham, Roger  (9) Nelson, Ted  (8) Neumann, John von  (6) Papert, Seymour  (6) Postel, Jonathan@  (3) Raskin, Jef@  (24) Ritchie, Dennis  (5) Sakamura, Ken@  (10) Sinclair, Clive  (7) Stallman, Richard  (9) Sutherland, Ivan  (2) Turing, Alan Mathison@  (15) Wall, Larry@  (9) Wiener, Norbert  (3) Wirth, Niklaus@  (5) Wozniak, Steve  (3) Zuse, Konrad  (5)

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Computers: Artificial Intelligence: People  (218) Computers: Computer Science: People  (372) Computers: Programming: Languages: C: Gurus  (1) Computers: Programming: Personal Pages  (513) Science: Math: Logic and Foundations: History: People  (93) Society: History: By Topic: Science: Engineering and Technology: Biography  (85)

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Sites:

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. 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. 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. [PDF] 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 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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