Wired Magazine Archive: People - http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/people/ A collection of interviews with notable IT people, including computing and Internet pioneers.
Licklider, J.C.R.; 1915-1990, In Memoriam - http://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/DEC/SRC/research-reports/abstracts/src-rr-061.html In the 1960s, Licklider published his ideas on the future role of multiaccess interactive computing: 'Man-computer Symbiosis', and 'The Computer as a Communication Device'. Downloads in 5 formats.
Berkeley, Edmund C. - http://www.blinkenlights.com/classiccmp/berkeley/ Father of the Personal Computer
Memoir of a Homebrew Computer Club Member - http://www.bambi.net/bob/homebrew.html An original member, Bob Lash, shares memories, photographs, stories, diagrams from the early days of personal computing.
Information Sciences Hall of Fame - http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~mbsclass/hall_of_fame/ Biographical details for many of the people who have played an important part in the foundation of Information Science.
Tarjan, Robert E. - http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~ret/ Algorithm and data structure researcher (see also Knuth and Dijkstra)
Bush, Vannevar: As We Are Thinking - http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/webclass/web/project1/group6/intro.html 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.
Naur, Peter - http://www.naur.com/ 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 - http://catb.org/~esr/ Open Source spokesman and author of the New Hacker's Dictionary. Resume, writings, speaking engagements, FAQ, and links.
Thompson, Ken - http://plan9.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/ken/ The father of the Unix operating system
Emeagwali, Philip - http://www.emeagwali.com/ 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.
Wheeler, David - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wheeler Wikipedia biography of one of the pioneers of the Edsac computer at Cambridge, who helped to develop programming language. Includes links to obituaries.
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