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Babbage, Charles
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Bell, Gordon
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Berners-Lee, Tim
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Bricklin, Daniel
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Cerf, Vinton
(5)
Cray, Seymour
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Dijkstra, Edsger
(8)
Dorner, Steve
(3)
Eckert, John Presper
(4)
Engelbart, Douglas
(17)
Flowers, Tommy
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Gates, Bill
(14)
Hopper, Grace Murray
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Ingalls, Daniel
(10)
Internet
(40)
Jobs, Steve
(20)
Kay, Alan
(35)
Kernighan, Brian
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Kildall, Gary
(8)
Knuth, Donald
(18)
Kurzweil, Raymond
(15)
Lampson, Butler
(7)
Lans, Håkan
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Lovelace, Ada
(11)
Mauchly, John
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McCarthy, John
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Minsky, Marvin
(12)
Moore, Gordon
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Muuss, Michael John
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Needham, Roger
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Nelson, Ted
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Neumann, John von
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Papert, Seymour
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Pausch, Randy
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Postel, Jonathan
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Raskin, Jef
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Ritchie, Dennis
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Sakamura, Ken
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Simonyi, Charles
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Sinclair, Clive
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Stallman, Richard
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Sutherland, Ivan
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Tesler, Lawrence
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Turing, Alan Mathison
(15)
Wall, Larry
(9)
Weiser, Mark
(4)
Wiener, Norbert
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Wirth, Niklaus
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Raymond, Eric
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http://catb.org/~esr/
Open Source spokesman and author of the New Hacker's Dictionary. Resume, writings, speaking engagements, FAQ, and links.
Tarjan, Robert E.
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http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~ret/
Algorithm and data structure researcher (see also Knuth and Dijkstra)
Memoir of a Homebrew Computer Club Member
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http://www.bambi.net/bob/homebrew.html
An original member, Bob Lash, shares memories, photographs, stories, diagrams from the early days of personal computing.
Wheeler, David
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wheeler
Wikipedia biography of one of the pioneers of the Edsac computer at Cambridge, who helped to develop programming language. Includes links to obituaries.
Emeagwali, Philip
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http://www.emeagwali.com/
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.
Thompson, Ken
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http://plan9.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/ken/
The father of the Unix operating system
Berkeley, Edmund C.
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http://www.blinkenlights.com/classiccmp/berkeley/
Father of the Personal Computer
Microsoft Altair BASIC Legend Talks about Linux, CPRM and that Very Frightening Photo
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/05/11/microsoft_altair_basic_legend_talks/
An interview with Monte Davidoff regarding the 4K BASIC interpreter he wrote with Gates and Allen.
Wired Magazine Archive: People
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http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/people/
A collection of interviews with notable IT people, including computing and Internet pioneers.
Naur, Peter
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http://www.naur.com/
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.
Information Sciences Hall of Fame
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http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~mbsclass/hall_of_fame/
Biographical details for many of the people who have played an important part in the foundation of Information Science.
Bush, Vannevar: As We Are Thinking
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http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/webclass/web/project1/group6/intro.html
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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