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Weiser, Mark (1952-1999): In Memoriam
Memorial site for the creator of "calm computing" / "ubiquitous computing"
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/weiser/

Joy, Bill
Executive biography.
http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/ceo/mgt_joy.html

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.
http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/webclass/web/project1/group6/intro.html

McCarthy, John
Inventor of the Lisp programming language, arguably the oldest language in active use today (and a likely candidate for oldest high-level language overall, in competition with Fortran)
http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/

Metcalfe, Bob, The Legend of
Wired article
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/6.11/metcalfe.html

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

Thompson, Ken
The father of the Unix operating system
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/ken/

Winograd, Terry
Terry Winograd is one of the foreground figures in research into human/computer interaction and natural language systems
http://www-pcd.stanford.edu/~winograd/

Wired Magazine Archive - People
A respectable collection of interviews with a respectable lot of people
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/people/

Berkeley, Edmund C.
Father of the Personal Computer
http://www.blinkenlights.com/classiccmp/berkeley/

Cerf, Vint
"The Father of the Internet" hosts his own little fan site
http://www1.worldcom.com/global/resources/cerfs_up/

Philip Emeagwali
Biography of an African American inventor, a pioneer in computing and the Internet.
http://black-inventors.tripod.com/Africa-Computer-Whizz.htm

Memoir of a Homebrew Computer Club Member
An original Homebrew Computer Club member, Bob Lash, shares memories, photographs, stories and diagrams from the early days of personal computing.
http://www.bambi.net/bob/homebrew.html

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.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/18909.html

Raymond, Eric
Open Source spokesman and author of the New Hacker's Dictionary. Resume, writings, speaking engagements, FAQ, and links.
http://catb.org/~esr/

Watson, Thomas J. Jr. (1914-1993)
Long-time chairman of IBM (very brief bio)
http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/w/watson-t1j12.asp


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