Pioneers
Pioneers Links
- Cerf, Vint "The Father of the Internet" hosts his own little fan site
- Watson, Thomas J. Jr. (1914-1993) Long-time chairman of IBM (very brief bio)
- Joy, Bill Executive biography.
- 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.
- Metcalfe, Bob, The Legend of Wired article
- Thompson, Ken The father of the Unix operating system
- Tarjan, Robert E. Algorithm and data structure researcher (see also Knuth and Dijkstra)
- 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)
- 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).
- Weiser, Mark (1952-1999): In Memoriam Memorial site for the creator of "calm computing" / "ubiquitous computing"
- Wired Magazine Archive - People A respectable collection of interviews with a respectable lot of people
- Berkeley, Edmund C. Father of the Personal Computer
- You Say You Want a Revolution... Profiles of seven men who "took the huge, monolithic computers of the fifties and turned them into the shiny, friendly machines you're using today": Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Andy Grove, Ted Hoff, Mitch Kapor, Steve Wozniak, and Tim Paterson.
- Metcalfe, Robert M (Bob) Inventor of Ethernet, founder of 3Com, long-time InfoWorld columnist
- Winograd, Terry Terry Winograd is one of the foreground figures in research into human/computer interaction and natural language systems
- Bush, Vannevar: As We May Think The classic July 1945 Atlantic Monthly article, which many view as the first clear description of hypermedia.
- Berners-Lee, Tim A web site dedicated to the man who created the first server, web browser, and the www in general.
- Moore, Gordon E Scientific American interviews the Intel pioneer and establisher of "Moore's Law"
- Computers: History and Development Jones Telecommunications & Multimedia Encyclopedia section on "Computers: History and Development."
- Raymond, Eric Open Source spokesman and author of the New Hacker's Dictionary. Resume, writings, speaking engagements, FAQ, and links.
- Jobs, Steve P Co-founder of Apple with Steve Wozniak, founder of NeXT
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