Computers, History, Pioneers
- Sinclair, Clive
- Wozniak, Steve
- Internet@
- Kernighan, Brian
- Minsky, Marvin
- Wirth, Niklaus@
- Cerf, Vinton@
- Gates, Bill
- Wiener, Norbert
- Engelbart, Douglas
- Postel, Jonathan@
- Miner, Jay
- Raskin, Jef@
- Kay, Alan
- Dorner, Steve@
- Turing, Alan Mathison@
- Needham, Roger
- Lampson, Butler
- Jobs, Steve
- Hopper, Grace Murray
- Zuse, Konrad
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- Zuse, Konrad
- Kildall, Gary
- Ritchie, Dennis
- Berners-Lee, Tim@
- Nelson, Ted
- Knuth, Donald
- Cray, Seymour@
- Barlow, John Perry@
- Lovelace, Ada
- Sutherland, Ivan
- Wall, Larry@
- Babbage, Charles
- Flowers, Tommy
- Bricklin, Daniel
- Stallman, Richard
- Muuss, Michael John
- Papert, Seymour
- Sakamura, Ken@
- Dijkstra, Edsger
- Lans, Håkan
- Neumann, John von
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See Also:
- Memorial site for the creator of "calm computing" / "ubiquitous computing"
- Wired article
- 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.
- An interview with Monte Davidoff regarding the 4K BASIC interpreter he wrote with Gates and Allen.
- Open Source spokesman and author of the New Hacker's Dictionary. Resume, writings, speaking engagements, FAQ, and links.
- The father of the Unix operating system
- A collection of interviews with notable IT people, including computing and Internet pioneers.
- Long-time chairman of IBM (very brief bio)
- Terry Winograd is one of the foreground figures in research into human/computer interaction and natural language systems
- Wikipedia biography of one of the pioneers of the Edsac computer at Cambridge, who helped to develop programming language. Includes links to obituaries.
- Biography of an African American inventor, a pioneer in computing and the Internet. [PDF]
- 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)
- An original Homebrew Computer Club member, Bob Lash, shares memories, photographs, stories and diagrams from the early days of personal computing.
- Biographical details for many of the people who have played an important part in the foundation of Information Science.
- Father of the Personal Computer
- Algorithm and data structure researcher (see also Knuth and Dijkstra)
- 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.
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