Directory of Pioneers Resources

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• Gates, Bill
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• Mauchly, John
• McCarthy, John
• Metcalfe, Robert
• Miner, Jay
• Minsky, Marvin
• Moore, Gordon
• Muuss, Michael John
• Needham, Roger
• Nelson, Ted
• Neumann, John von
• Papert, Seymour
• Pausch, Randy
• Postel, Jonathan
• Raskin, Jef
• Ritchie, Dennis
• Sakamura, Ken
• Sassenrath, Carl
• Simonyi, Charles
• Sinclair, Clive
• Stallman, Richard
• Sutherland, Ivan
• Tesler, Lawrence
• Turing, Alan Mathison
• Wall, Larry
• Weiser, Mark
• Wiener, Norbert
• Winograd, Terry
• Wirth, Niklaus
• Wozniak, Steve
• Xerox PARC
• Zuse, Konrad

Resources in This Category

• Allen, Paul

  http://www.paulallen.com/
  Investor, philanthropist and co-founder of Microsoft.

• Berkeley, Edmund C.

  http://www.blinkenlights.com/classiccmp/berkeley/
  Father of the Personal Computer

• 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.

• 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.

• Licklider, J.C.R.; 1915-1990, In Memoriam

  http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/Compaq-DEC/SRC-RR-61.pdf
  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'.

• Microsoft Altair BASIC Legend Talks about Linux, CPRM and that Very Frightening Photo

  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/05/11/microsoft_altair_basic_legend_talks/
  An interview with Monte Davidoff regarding the 4K BASIC interpreter he wrote with Gates and Allen.

• 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.

• Tarjan, Robert E.

  http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~ret/
  Algorithm and data structure researcher (see also Knuth and Dijkstra)

• 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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