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Babbage, Charles	Barlow, John Perry@	Bell, Gordon	Berners-Lee, Tim@	Bricklin, Daniel	Cerf, Vinton@
Cray, Seymour@	Dijkstra, Edsger	Dorner, Steve@	Eckert, John Presper	Engelbart, Douglas	Flowers, Tommy
Gates, Bill	Hopper, Grace Murray	Ingalls, Daniel	Internet@	Jobs, Steve	Kay, Alan
Kernighan, Brian	Kildall, Gary	Knuth, Donald	Kurzweil, Raymond	Lampson, Butler	Lans, Håkan
Lovelace, Ada	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

	Bush, Vannevar: As We Are Thinking URL: http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/webclass/web/project1/group6/intro.html ODP description: 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. Page title: As We Are Thinking
	Wired Magazine Archive: People URL: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/people/ ODP description: A collection of interviews with notable IT people, including computing and Internet pioneers. Page title: Wired Magazine Archive
	Raymond, Eric URL: http://catb.org/~esr/ ODP description: Open Source spokesman and author of the New Hacker's Dictionary. Resume, writings, speaking engagements, FAQ, and links. Page title: Eric S. Raymond's Home Page Page description: Everything about my Internet projects.
	Naur, Peter URL: http://www.naur.com/ ODP description: 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. Page title: The works of Peter Naur
	Microsoft Altair BASIC Legend Talks about Linux, CPRM and that Very Frightening Photo URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/05/11/microsoft_altair_basic_legend_talks/ ODP description: An interview with Monte Davidoff regarding the 4K BASIC interpreter he wrote with Gates and Allen. Page title: Microsoft Altair BASIC legend talks about Linux, CPRM and that very frightening photo \| The Register
	Tarjan, Robert E. URL: http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~ret/ ODP description: Algorithm and data structure researcher (see also Knuth and Dijkstra) Page title: Robert E. Tarjan
	Berkeley, Edmund C. URL: http://www.blinkenlights.com/classiccmp/berkeley/ ODP description: Father of the Personal Computer Page title: Edmund C. Berkeley
	Information Sciences Hall of Fame URL: http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~mbsclass/hall_of_fame/ ODP description: Biographical details for many of the people who have played an important part in the foundation of Information Science. Page title: School of Information Science - Hall of Fame
	Licklider, J.C.R.; 1915-1990, In Memoriam URL: http://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/DEC/SRC/research-reports/abstracts/src-rr-061.html ODP description: 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'. Downloads in 5 formats. Page title: Digital Systems Research Center: Report 61
	Wheeler, David URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wheeler ODP description: Wikipedia biography of one of the pioneers of the Edsac computer at Cambridge, who helped to develop programming language. Includes links to obituaries. Page title: David Wheeler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
	Emeagwali.com URL: http://www.emeagwali.com/ ODP description: 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. Page description: Philip Emeagwali helped give birth to the supercomputer, the technology that spawned the Internet. African American Inventors - black scientists inventions
	Thompson, Ken URL: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/ken/ ODP description: The father of the Unix operating system Page title: Ken Thompson
	Memoir of a Homebrew Computer Club Member URL: http://www.bambi.net/bob/homebrew.html ODP description: An original member, Bob Lash, shares memories, photographs, stories, diagrams from the early days of personal computing. Page title: Homebrew Computer Club

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