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Berkeley, Edmund C.
Father of the personal computer
www.blinkenlights.com/classiccmp/berkeley |
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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.
www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/webclass/web/project1/group6/intro.html |
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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.
www.emeagwali.com |
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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.
www.sis.pitt.edu/~mbsclass/hall_of_fame |
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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.
gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/DEC/SRC/research-reports/abstracts/src-rr-061.html |
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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.
www.bambi.net/bob/homebrew.html |
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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.
www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/18909.html |
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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.
www.naur.com |
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Raymond, Eric
Open source spokesman and author of the new hacker's dictionary. resume , writings , speaking engagements , faq , and links.
catb.org/~esr |
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Tarjan, Robert E.
Algorithm and data structure researcher (see also knuth and dijkstra)
www.cs.princeton.edu/~ret |
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Thompson, Ken
The father of the unix operating system
plan9.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/ken |
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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.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wheeler |
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Wired Magazine Archive: People
A collection of interviews with notable it people , including computing and internet pioneers.
www.wired.com/wired/archive/people |
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