Directory > Computers > History > Pioneers
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Neumann, John von (8)
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| Bricklin, Daniel (3)
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Knuth, Donald (9)
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Papert, Seymour (6)
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| Dijkstra, Edsger (7)
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Lampson, Butler (8)
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Ritchie, Dennis (6)
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| Engelbart, Douglas (24)
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Lans, Håkan (4)
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Sinclair, Clive (7)
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| Flowers, Tommy (4)
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Lovelace, Ada (12)
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Stallman, Richard (9)
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| Gates, Bill (12)
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Miner, Jay (3)
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Sutherland, Ivan (4)
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| Hopper, Grace Murray (9)
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Minsky, Marvin (9)
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Wiener, Norbert (4)
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| Jobs, Steve (19)
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Muuss, Michael John (8)
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Wozniak, Steve (2)
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| Kay, Alan (11)
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Needham, Roger (9)
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Zuse, Konrad (5)
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Watson, Thomas J. Jr. (1914-1993)
Long-time chairman of IBM (very brief bio)
http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/w/watson-t1j12.asp
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Raymond, Eric
Open Source spokesman and author of the New Hacker's Dictionary. Resume, writings, speaking
engagements, FAQ, and links.
http://catb.org/~esr/
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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.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/18909.html
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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.
http://www.bambi.net/bob/homebrew.html
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Philip Emeagwali
Biography of an African American inventor, a pioneer in computing and the Internet.
http://black-inventors.tripod.com/Africa-Computer-Whizz.htm
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Cerf, Vint
"The Father of the Internet" hosts his own little fan site
http://www1.worldcom.com/global/resources/cerfs_up/
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Berkeley, Edmund C.
Father of the Personal Computer
http://www.blinkenlights.com/classiccmp/berkeley/
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Wired Magazine Archive - People
A respectable collection of interviews with a respectable lot of people
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/people/
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Winograd, Terry
Terry Winograd is one of the foreground figures in research into human/computer interaction and
natural language systems
http://www-pcd.stanford.edu/~winograd/
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Thompson, Ken
The father of the Unix operating system
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/ken/
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Tarjan, Robert E.
Algorithm and data structure researcher (see also Knuth and Dijkstra)
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~ret/
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Metcalfe, Robert M (Bob)
Inventor of Ethernet, founder of 3Com, long-time InfoWorld columnist
http://www.digitalcentury.com/encyclo/update/metcalfe.html
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Metcalfe, Bob, The Legend of
Wired article
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/6.11/metcalfe.html
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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)
http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/
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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.
http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/webclass/web/project1/group6/intro.html
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Joy, Bill
Executive biography.
http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/ceo/mgt_joy.html
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Jones Online Encyclopedia - Article Index - Biographies
Biographies of some computer pioneers (you may have to click on the "biographies" link or
page down to get to them).
http://www.digitalcentury.com/encyclo/update/articles.html#bio
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Weiser, Mark (1952-1999): In Memoriam
Memorial site for the creator of "calm computing" / "ubiquitous computing"
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/weiser/
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