Computers, History, Pioneers

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- Father of the Personal Computer
- 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.
- 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.
- An interview with Monte Davidoff regarding the 4K BASIC interpreter he wrote with Gates and Allen.
- Long-time chairman of IBM (very brief bio)
- 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)
- Open Source spokesman and author of the New Hacker's Dictionary. Resume, writings, speaking engagements, FAQ, and links.
- A collection of interviews with notable IT people, including computing and Internet pioneers.
- Algorithm and data structure researcher (see also Knuth and Dijkstra)
- 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.
- Terry Winograd is one of the foreground figures in research into human/computer interaction and natural language systems
- Biography of an African American inventor, a pioneer in computing and the Internet. [PDF]
- The father of the Unix operating system
- Wikipedia biography of one of the pioneers of the Edsac computer at Cambridge, who helped to develop programming language. Includes links to obituaries.
- Memorial site for the creator of "calm computing" / "ubiquitous computing"

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