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- Berkeley, Edmund C. - Father of the Personal Computer
www.blinkenlights.com/classiccmp/berkeley
- 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.
www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/webclass/web/project1/group6/intro.html
- Bush, Vannevar: As We May Think - The classic July 1945 Atlantic Monthly article, which many view as the first clear description of hypermedia.
www.histech.rwth-aachen.de/www/quellen/bush/as-we-ma.html
- Cerf, Vint - "The Father of the Internet" hosts his own little fan site
www1.worldcom.com/global/resources/cerfs_up
- Computers: History and Development - Jones Telecommunications & Multimedia Encyclopedia section on "Computers: History and Development."
www.digitalcentury.com/encyclo/update/comp_hd.html
- 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).
www.digitalcentury.com/encyclo/update/articles.html#bio
- Joy, Bill - Executive biography.
www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/ceo/mgt_joy.html
- 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)
www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc
- Metcalfe, Bob, The Legend of - Wired article
www.wired.com/wired/archive/6.11/metcalfe.html
- Metcalfe, Robert M (Bob) - Inventor of Ethernet, founder of 3Com, long-time InfoWorld columnist
www.digitalcentury.com/encyclo/update/metcalfe.html
- Raymond, Eric - Open Source spokesman and author of the New Hacker's Dictionary. Resume, writings, speaking engagements, FAQ, and links.
www.tuxedo.org/~esr
- Tarjan, Robert E. - Algorithm and data structure researcher (see also Knuth and Dijkstra)
www.cs.princeton.edu/~ret
- Thompson, Ken - The father of the Unix operating system
plan9.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/ken
- Watson, Thomas J. Jr. (1914-1993) - Long-time chairman of IBM (very brief bio)
www.encyclopedia.com/html/W/Watson-TJ2.asp
- Weiser, Mark (1952-1999): In Memoriam - Memorial site for the creator of "calm computing" / "ubiquitous computing"
www-sul.stanford.edu/weiser
- Winograd, Terry - Terry Winograd is one of the foreground figures in research into human/computer interaction and natural language systems
www-pcd.stanford.edu/~winograd
- Wired Magazine Archive - People - A respectable collection of interviews with a respectable lot of people
www.wired.com/wired/archive/people
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