Web Directory

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

» 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

» Emeagwali, Philip
   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.
   http://www.emeagwali.com/

» Information Sciences Hall of Fame
   Biographical details for many of the people who have played an important part in the foundation of Information Science.
   http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~mbsclass/hall_of_fame/

» Memoir of a Homebrew Computer Club Member
   An original member, Bob Lash, shares memories, photographs, stories, 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/2001/05/11/microsoft_altair_basic_legend_talks/

» Naur, Peter
   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.
   http://www.naur.com/

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

» 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/

» Wheeler, David
   Wikipedia biography of one of the pioneers of the Edsac computer at Cambridge, who helped to develop programming language. Includes links to obituaries.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wheeler

» Wired Magazine Archive: People
   A collection of interviews with notable IT people, including computing and Internet pioneers.
   http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/people/