Directory: Top/Computers/History/Pioneers

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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Tarjan, Robert E.
Algorithm and data structure researcher (see also Knuth and Dijkstra)
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~ret/
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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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Wired Magazine Archive: People
A collection of interviews with notable IT people, including computing and Internet pioneers.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/people/
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Berkeley, Edmund C.
Father of the Personal Computer
http://www.blinkenlights.com/classiccmp/berkeley/
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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.
http://www.bambi.net/bob/homebrew.html
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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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Information Sciences Hall of Fame
Biographical details for many of the people who have played an important part in the foundation of Information Science.
http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~mbsclass/hall_of_fame/
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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.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wheeler
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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.
http://www.naur.com/
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