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Babbage, Charles
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Neumann, John von
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Bell, Gordon
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Papert, Seymour
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Bricklin, Daniel
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Raskin, Jef
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Dijkstra, Edsger
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Ritchie, Dennis
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Eckert, John Presper
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Simonyi, Charles
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Engelbart, Douglas
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Sinclair, Clive
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Flowers, Tommy
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Stallman, Richard
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Gates, Bill
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Sutherland, Ivan
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Hopper, Grace Murray
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Tesler, Lawrence
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Ingalls, Daniel
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Weiser, Mark
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Jobs, Steve
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Wiener, Norbert
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Kay, Alan
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Winograd, Terry
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Kernighan, Brian
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Wozniak, Steve
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Kildall, Gary
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Xerox PARC
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Knuth, Donald
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Zuse, Konrad
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Kurzweil, Raymond
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Computers/Internet/History/People
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Lampson, Butler
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Computers/Internet/History/People/Barlow, John Perry
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Lans, Håkan
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Computers/Internet/History/People/Berners-Lee, Tim
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Lovelace, Ada
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Computers/Internet/History/People/Cerf, Vinton
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Mauchly, John
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Computers/Internet/History/People/Postel, Jonathan
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McCarthy, John
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Computers/Programming/Languages/Perl/Wall, Larry
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Metcalfe, Robert
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Computers/Programming/Languages/REBOL/Sassenrath, Carl
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Miner, Jay
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Computers/Programming/Languages/Wirth
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Minsky, Marvin
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Computers/Software/Internet/Clients/Mail/Eudora/Dorner, Steve
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Moore, Gordon
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Computers/Software/Operating Systems/Realtime/TRON
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Muuss, Michael John
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Computers/Supercomputing/Cray/Cray, Seymour
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Needham, Roger
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Science/Math/Logic and Foundations/History/People/Turing, Alan Mathison
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Nelson, Ted
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Society/People/College Life/Carnegie Mellon University/Faculty and Staff/Pausch, Randy
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Berkeley, Edmund C.
Father of the Personal Computer
http://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.
http://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.
http://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.
http://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.
http://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/DEC/SRC/research-reports/abstracts/src-rr-061.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.
http://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.
http://catb.org/~esr/
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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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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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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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