Pioneers (History)

Pioneers Subs:

Babbage, Charles Barlow, John Perry@ Berners-Lee, Tim@ Bricklin, Daniel Cerf, Vinton@ Cray, Seymour@ Dijkstra, Edsger Dorner, Steve@ Engelbart, Douglas Flowers, Tommy Gates, Bill Hopper, Grace Murray Internet@ Jobs, Steve Kay, Alan Kernighan, Brian Kildall, Gary Knuth, Donald Lampson, Butler Lans, Håkan Lovelace, Ada

Lovelace, Ada Miner, Jay Minsky, Marvin Muuss, Michael John Needham, Roger Nelson, Ted Neumann, John von Papert, Seymour Postel, Jonathan@ Raskin, Jef@ Ritchie, Dennis Sakamura, Ken@ Sinclair, Clive Stallman, Richard Sutherland, Ivan Turing, Alan Mathison@ Wall, Larry@ Wiener, Norbert Wirth, Niklaus@ Wozniak, Steve Zuse, Konrad

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Pioneers Sites:

Weiser, Mark (1952-1999): In Memoriam Memorial site for the creator of "calm computing" / "ubiquitous computing" http://www-sul.stanford.edu/weiser/ Tarjan, Robert E. Algorithm and data structure researcher (see also Knuth and Dijkstra) http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~ret/ Watson, Thomas J. Jr. (1914-1993) Long-time chairman of IBM (very brief bio) http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/w/watson-t1j12.asp 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/ Thompson, Ken The father of the Unix operating system http://plan9.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/ken/ The Faces in Front of the Monitors 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. http://www.wbglinks.net/pages/watchmen/ Metcalfe, Bob, The Legend of Wired article http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/6.11/metcalfe.html Raymond, Eric Open Source spokesman and author of the New Hacker's Dictionary. Resume, writings, speaking engagements, FAQ, and links. http://catb.org/~esr/ McCarthy, John 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) http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/ Memoir of a Homebrew Computer Club Member An original Homebrew Computer Club member, Bob Lash, shares memories, photographs, stories and diagrams from the early days of personal computing. http://www.bambi.net/bob/homebrew.html Philip Emeagwali Biography of an African American inventor, a pioneer in computing and the Internet. http://black-inventors.tripod.com/Africa-Computer-Whizz.htm 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 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. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/18909.html Berkeley, Edmund C. Father of the Personal Computer http://www.blinkenlights.com/classiccmp/berkeley/ Winograd, Terry Terry Winograd is one of the foreground figures in research into human/computer interaction and natural language systems http://www-pcd.stanford.edu/~winograd/ 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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