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Babbage, Charles
Bricklin, Daniel
Dijkstra, Edsger
Engelbart, Douglas
Flowers, Tommy
Gates, Bill
Hopper, Grace Murray
Jobs, Steve
Kay, Alan
Kernighan, Brian
Kildall, Gary
Knuth, Donald
Lampson, Butler
Lans, Håkan
Lovelace, Ada
McCarthy, John
Metcalfe, Robert

Miner, Jay
Minsky, Marvin
Muuss, Michael John
Needham, Roger
Nelson, Ted
Neumann, John von
Papert, Seymour
Raskin, Jef
Ritchie, Dennis
Sinclair, Clive
Stallman, Richard
Sutherland, Ivan
Weiser, Mark
Wiener, Norbert
Wozniak, Steve
Zuse, Konrad

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. (infos)

Tarjan, Robert E.
Algorithm and data structure researcher (see also Knuth and Dijkstra) (infos)

Thompson, Ken
The father of the Unix operating system (infos)

Winograd, Terry
One of the foreground figures in research into human/computer interaction and natural language systems (infos)

Wired Magazine Archive: People
A collection of interviews with notable IT people, including computing and Internet pioneers. (infos)

Berkeley, Edmund C.
Father of the Personal Computer (infos)

Memoir of a Homebrew Computer Club Member
An original member, Bob Lash, shares memories, photographs, stories, diagrams from the early days of personal computing. (infos)

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. (infos)

Raymond, Eric
Open Source spokesman and author of the New Hacker's Dictionary. Resume, writings, speaking engagements, FAQ, and links. (infos)

Watson, Thomas J. Jr. (1914-1993)
Long-time chairman of IBM (very brief bio) (infos)

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