Surf these sites: Alan Turing - Home Page -- Alan Turing Home Page. Gateway to a large website maintained by Andrew Hodges, biographer of Alan Turing (1912-1954). Babbage, Charles (1791-1871) -- The inventor of the "analytical engine" -- some links and pictures. Berkeley, Edmund C. -- Father of the Personal Computer Berners-Lee, Tim -- A web site dedicated to the man who created the first server, web browser, and the www in general. Bricklin, Dan -- The man who invented the spreadsheet Cerf, Vint -- "The Father of the Internet" hosts his own little fan site Dan Bricklin''s Web Site -- Pictures old and new, comments, and software history from the inventor of VisiCalc, the first PC spreadsheet. Dijkstra, Edsger W -- Legendary algorithm researcher and inventor Engelbart, Douglas -- Current (2/23/99) article on Douglas Engelbart, inventor of the mouse. Hopper, Grace Murray -- Rear Admiral and veteran woman programmer Jobs, Steve P -- Co-founder of Apple with Steve Wozniak, founder of NeXT John McCarthy -- The home page of the creator of Lisp Kay, Alan -- A small biography on one of the foreground characters of the personal computer revolution Kernighan, Brian W -- Coinventor of the C programming language (with Dennis Ritchie) and one of the foreground figures in ancient Unix history Kildall, Gary (1942-1994) -- The creator of the CP/M operating system and founder of Digital Research Knuth, Donald E -- Donald Knuth''s very own homepage. Programming wouldn''t be what it is today without this man. Also, the inventor of TeX. Lovelace, Ada (1815-1852) -- Countess of Lovelace, Ada Byron King; daughter of Lord Byron and legendary for programming Babbage''s analytical engine Marvin Minsky -- Author of "The Society of Mind" and generally regarded as one of the most influential thinkers in AI. Metcalfe, Bob, The Legend of -- Wired article Metcalfe, Robert M (Bob) -- Inventor of Ethernet, founder of 3Com, long-time InfoWorld columnist Minsky, Marvin - Abstracts -- Links to some of Minsky''s books and papers (some downloadable). Moore, Gordon E -- Scientific American interviews the Intel pioneer and establisher of "Moore''s Law" Nelson, Ted -- Hypertext pioneer and, well, crackpot Nelson, Ted - The Curse of Xanadu -- Very readable Wired feature article on Nelson and the history of the Xanadu project. (Nelson himself is extremely disgruntled and threatens to sue, but this is worth reading for the historical content alone.) Raymond, Eric S -- ESR is one of the foreground figures in the Open Source movement, editor and maintainer of the Jargon File (an interesting historical artefact in its own right!) and the Hacker FAQ, and a major contributor to sundry other projects related to Unix, the Internet, and computing in general. Ritchie, Dennis M -- Unix central figure -- one of the original Unix authors (with Ken Thompson) and coinventor of the C programming language (with Brian Kernighan) Stallman, Richard M -- RMS is founder of the GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation, father and current maintainer of the One True Emacs, etc etc etc etc. Tarjan, Robert E. -- Algorithm and data structure researcher (see also Knuth and Dijkstra) Thompson, Ken -- The father of the Unix operating system Turing - Alan Turing - Home Page (1912 - 1954) -- Founder of computer science, mathematician, philosopher, codebreaker, strange visionary and a gay man before his time WOZ Home -- Personal website for Steve Watson, Thomas -- (Encyclopedia.com) Weiner, Norbert -- A Memoir: From Philosophy to Mathematics to Biology Weiser, Mark -- Article on Mark Weiser''s "calm computing." Weiser, Mark (1952-1999) -- "Calm computing" creator dead at 46. Article about Mark Weiser, advocate of "ubiquitous computing" and "calm computing." Weiser, Mark (1952-1999): In Memoriam -- Memorial site for the creator of "calm computing" / "ubiquitous computing" Wiener, Norbert (1894-1964) -- Very brief summary & references. Winograd, Terry -- Terry Winograd is one of the foreground figures in research into human/computer interaction and natural language systems von Neumann, John -- References for the biography of John von Neumann von Neumann, John -- Brief bio and references. von Neumann, John (1903-1957) -- Biography of John von Neumann Wozniak, Steve: Still Fathering the Computer Revolution -- In the 70''s his passion led him to invent the Apple computer. His passion now is to light the fires of excitement in 5th through 8th graders.
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