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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.
» 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)
» 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.
» Metcalfe, Bob, The Legend of - Wired article
» Metcalfe, Robert M (Bob) - Inventor of Ethernet, founder of 3Com, long-time InfoWorld columnist
» 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.
» Philip Emeagwali - Biography of an African American inventor, a pioneer in computing and the Internet.
» 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
» 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