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   Babbage, Charles
   Bricklin, Daniel
   Engelbart, Douglas
   Jobs, Steve
   Kay, Alan
   Kernighan, Brian
   Kildall, Gary
   Knuth, Donald
   Lovelace, Ada
   Minsky, Marvin
   Muuss, Michael John
   Neumann, John von
   Papert, Seymour
   Postel, Jonathan
   Ritchie, Dennis
   Sinclair, Clive
   Stallman, Richard
   Sutherland, Ivan
   Wiener, Norbert

Web SitesSuggest a Site
Berkeley, Edmund C.
Father of the Personal Computer
Bush, Vannevar: As We May Think
The classic July 1945 Atlantic Monthly article, which many view as the first clear description of hypermedia.
Cerf, Vint
"The Father of the Internet" hosts his own little fan site
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.
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
Watson, Thomas J. Jr. (1914-1993)
Long-time chairman of IBM (very brief bio)
Weiser, Mark (1952-1999): In Memoriam
Memorial site for the creator of "calm computing" / "ubiquitous computing"
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

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