Pioneers

Berkeley, Edmund C. - Father of the Personal Computer
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.
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.
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.
www.sis.pitt.edu/~mbsclass/hall_of_fame/

Licklider, J.C.R.; 1915-1990, In Memoriam - 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.
gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/DEC/SRC/research-reports/abstracts/src-rr-061.html

Memoir of a Homebrew Computer Club Member - An original member, Bob Lash, shares memories, photographs, stories, diagrams from the early days of personal computing.
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.
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.
www.naur.com/

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

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

Thompson, Ken - The father of the Unix operating system
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.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wheeler

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