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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)
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John McCarthy If you like frames try this [courtesy of Tim McCarthy What's new? It occurs to me that those who have already looked at this web page might not want to slog through all of it on the chance that something...Memorial site for the creator of "calm computing" / "ubiquitous computing"
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/weiser/
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/webc...s/web/project1/group6/intro.html
Wired article
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/6.11/metcalfe.html
Algorithm and data structure researcher (see also Knuth and Dijkstra)
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~ret/
The father of the Unix operating system
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/ken/
Terry Winograd is one of the foreground figures in research into human/computer interaction and natural language systems
http://www-pcd.stanford.edu/~winograd/
A collection of interviews with notable IT people, including computing and Internet pioneers.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/people/
Father of the Personal Computer
http://www.blinkenlights.com/classiccmp/berkeley/
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
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
Open Source spokesman and author of the New Hacker's Dictionary. Resume, writings, speaking engagements, FAQ, and links.
http://catb.org/~esr/
Long-time chairman of IBM (very brief bio)
http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/w/watson-t1j12.asp
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/
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/
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
Biography of an African American inventor, a pioneer in computing and the Internet. [PDF]
http://emeagwali.info/biography/index.pdf