Open Directory - Computers: History: Pioneers
Babbage, Charles (8) Barlow, John Perry @ (10) Bell, Gordon (4) Berners-Lee, Tim @ (7) Bricklin, Daniel (1) Cerf, Vinton @ (5) Cray, Seymour @ (2) Dijkstra, Edsger (6) Dorner, Steve @ (3) Eckert, John Presper (3) Engelbart, Douglas (13) Flowers, Tommy (1) Gates, Bill (12) Hopper, Grace Murray (8) Ingalls, Daniel (6) Jobs, Steve (32) Kay, Alan (31) Kernighan, Brian (2) Kildall, Gary (4) Knuth, Donald (13) Kurzweil, Raymond (13) Lampson, Butler (6) Lans, Håkan (2) Lovelace, Ada (8) Mauchly, John (4) McCarthy, John (5) Metcalfe, Robert (3) Miner, Jay (2) Minsky, Marvin (12) Moore, Gordon (5) Muuss, Michael John (5) Needham, Roger (5) Nelson, Ted (8) Neumann, John von (6) Papert, Seymour (8) Pausch, Randy @ (15) Postel, Jonathan @ (3) Raskin, Jef (8) Ritchie, Dennis (19) Sakamura, Ken @ (8) Sassenrath, Carl @ (6) Simonyi, Charles (3) Sinclair, Clive (3) Stallman, Richard (6) Sutherland, Ivan (3) Tesler, Lawrence (5) Turing, Alan Mathison @ (14) Wall, Larry @ (6) Weiser, Mark (3) Wiener, Norbert (4) Winograd, Terry (2) Wirth, Niklaus @ (4) Wozniak, Steve (2) Zuse, Konrad (4)
See also: This category in other languages: - Investor, philanthropist and co-founder of Microsoft. - Father of the Personal Computer - 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. - Biographical details for many of the people who have played an important part in the foundation of Information Science. - 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'. [pdf] - An original member, Bob Lash, shares memories, photographs, stories, diagrams from the early days of personal computing. - An interview with Monte Davidoff regarding the 4K BASIC interpreter he wrote with Gates and Allen. - 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. - Open Source spokesman and author of the New Hacker's Dictionary. Resume, writings, speaking engagements, FAQ, and links. - Algorithm and data structure researcher (see also Knuth and Dijkstra) - The father of the Unix operating system - Wikipedia biography of one of the pioneers of the Edsac computer at Cambridge, who helped to develop programming language. Includes links to obituaries. - A collection of interviews with notable IT people, including computing and Internet pioneers.
