Pioneers History
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- Kurzweil, Raymond
- Raskin, Jef
- Eckert, John Presper
- Cerf, Vinton@
- Cray, Seymour@
- Ingalls, Daniel
- Dijkstra, Edsger
- Sassenrath, Carl@
- Postel, Jonathan@
- Knuth, Donald
- Sakamura, Ken@
- Internet@
- Miner, Jay
- Muuss, Michael John
- Wiener, Norbert
- Sutherland, Ivan
- Lampson, Butler
- Kernighan, Brian
- Kildall, Gary
- Jobs, Steve
- Bell, Gordon
- Zuse, Konrad
- Dorner, Steve@
- Gates, Bill
- Pausch, Randy@
- Bricklin, Daniel
- Lovelace, Ada
- Metcalfe, Robert
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- Stallman, Richard
- Wall, Larry@
- Berners-Lee, Tim@
- Moore, Gordon
- Kay, Alan
- McCarthy, John
- Tesler, Lawrence
- Barlow, John Perry@
- Simonyi, Charles
- Needham, Roger
- Winograd, Terry
- Weiser, Mark
- Hopper, Grace Murray
- Babbage, Charles
- Wozniak, Steve
- Papert, Seymour
- Turing, Alan Mathison@
- Sinclair, Clive
- Flowers, Tommy
- Neumann, John von
- Wirth, Niklaus@
- Xerox PARC
- Lans, Håkan
- Minsky, Marvin
- Ritchie, Dennis
- Engelbart, Douglas
- Nelson, Ted
- Mauchly, John
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See Also:
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Raymond, Eric - Open Source spokesman and author of the New Hacker's Dictionary. Resume, writings, speaking engagements, FAQ, and links.
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Memoir of a Homebrew Computer Club Member - An original member, Bob Lash, shares memories, photographs, stories, diagrams from the early days of personal computing.
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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.
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Tarjan, Robert E. - Algorithm and data structure researcher (see also Knuth and Dijkstra)
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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.
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Information Sciences Hall of Fame - Biographical details for many of the people who have played an important part in the foundation of Information Science.
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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.
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Berkeley, Edmund C. - Father of the Personal Computer
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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.
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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.
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Thompson, Ken - The father of the Unix operating system
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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.
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Wired Magazine Archive: People - A collection of interviews with notable IT people, including computing and Internet pioneers.
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