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  • Berkeley, Edmund C. - Father of the Personal Computer
  • 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.
  • Emeagwali, Philip - Official site of Philip Emeagwali, voted Africa's greatest scientist by New African for his work on supercomputer development. Includes booking details plus links to speeches and articles.
  • Information Sciences Hall of Fame - Biographical details for many of the people who have played an important part in the foundation of Information Science.
  • Memoir of a Homebrew Computer Club Member - An original member, Bob Lash, shares memories, photographs, stories, 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.
  • Naur, Peter - Introduction to the works of Peter Naur, legendary Danish computer scientist, key in the creation of Algol 60, the N in BNF. Online papers, bibliography, book. English, Dansk.
  • Raymond, Eric - Open Source spokesman and author of the New Hacker's Dictionary. Resume, writings, speaking engagements, FAQ, and links.
  • Tarjan, Robert E. - Algorithm and data structure researcher (see also Knuth and Dijkstra)
  • Thompson, Ken - The father of the Unix operating system
  • Wheeler, David - Wikipedia biography of one of the pioneers of the Edsac computer at Cambridge, who helped to develop programming language. Includes links to obituaries.
  • Wired Magazine Archive: People - A collection of interviews with notable IT people, including computing and Internet pioneers.

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