Topia!: Computers: History: Pioneers (257) Babbage, Charles (topiasearch) Berners-Lee, Tim@ (4) Bricklin, Daniel (topiasearch) Cray, Seymour@ (4) Dijkstra, Edsger (topiasearch) Dorner, Steve@ (3) Engelbart, Douglas (topiasearch) Gates, Bill (topiasearch) Hopper, Grace Murray (topiasearch) Jobs, Steve (topiasearch) Kay, Alan (topiasearch) Kernighan, Brian (topiasearch) Kildall, Gary (topiasearch) Knuth, Donald (topiasearch) Lampson, Butler (topiasearch) Lans, Håkan (topiasearch) Lovelace, Ada (topiasearch) Miner, Jay (topiasearch) Minsky, Marvin (topiasearch) Muuss, Michael John (topiasearch) Needham, Roger (topiasearch) Nelson, Ted (topiasearch) Neumann, John von (topiasearch) Papert, Seymour (topiasearch) Postel, Jonathan (topiasearch) Raskin, Jef@ (12) Ritchie, Dennis (topiasearch) Sinclair, Clive (topiasearch) Stallman, Richard (topiasearch) Sutherland, Ivan (topiasearch) Turing, Alan Mathison@ (14) Wall, Larry@ (9) Wiener, Norbert (topiasearch) Wozniak, Steve (topiasearch) Zuse, Konrad (topiasearch) See Also: Computers: Artificial Intelligence: People Computers: Computer Science: People Computers: Programming: Languages: C: Gurus Computers: Programming: Personal Pages Science: Math: Logic and Foundations: History: People Society: History: By Topic: Science: Engineering and Technology: Biography Weiser, Mark (1952-1999): In Memoriam - Memorial site for the creator of "calm computing" / "ubiquitous computing" Computers: History and Development - Jones Telecommunications & Multimedia Encyclopedia section on "Computers: History and Development." Jones Online Encyclopedia - Article Index - Biographies - Biographies of some computer pioneers (you may have to click on the "biographies" link or page down to get to them). Joy, Bill - Executive biography. 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. 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) Metcalfe, Bob, The Legend of - Wired article Metcalfe, Robert M (Bob) - Inventor of Ethernet, founder of 3Com, long-time InfoWorld columnist Tarjan, Robert E. - Algorithm and data structure researcher (see also Knuth and Dijkstra) Thompson, Ken - The father of the Unix operating system Winograd, Terry - Terry Winograd is one of the foreground figures in research into human/computer interaction and natural language systems Wired Magazine Archive - People - A respectable collection of interviews with a respectable lot of people Berkeley, Edmund C. - Father of the Personal Computer Cerf, Vint - "The Father of the Internet" hosts his own little fan site Philip Emeagwali - Biography of an African American inventor, a pioneer in computing and the Internet. 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. 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. Raymond, Eric - Open Source spokesman and author of the New Hacker's Dictionary. Resume, writings, speaking engagements, FAQ, and links. Watson, Thomas J. Jr. (1914-1993) - Long-time chairman of IBM (very brief bio) Additional categories: RoboVector contemporary sofas nike air force ones water bedroom designs

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