Computing Pioneers
Websites about Computing Pioneers, people who have played an important role in the foundation of Information Science. Biography, names, dates, biographical details, articles with links, editorial comments on information science pioneers websites.
Babbage, Charles
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Bell, Gordon
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Bricklin, Daniel
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Dijkstra, Edsger
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Eckert, John Presper
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Engelbart, Douglas
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Flowers, Tommy
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Gates, Bill
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Hopper, Grace Murray
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Ingalls, Daniel
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Jobs, Steve
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Kay, Alan
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Kernighan, Brian
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Kildall, Gary
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Knuth, Donald
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Kurzweil, Raymond
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Lampson, Butler
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Lans, HAAkan
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Lovelace, Ada
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Mauchly, John
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McCarthy, John
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Metcalfe, Robert
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Miner, Jay
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Minsky, Marvin
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Moore, Gordon
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Muuss, Michael John
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Needham, Roger
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Nelson, Ted
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Neumann, John von
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Papert, Seymour
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Raskin, Jef
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Ritchie, Dennis
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Simonyi, Charles
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Sinclair, Clive
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Stallman, Richard
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Sutherland, Ivan
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Tesler, Lawrence
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Weiser, Mark
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Wiener, Norbert
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Winograd, Terry
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Wozniak, Steve
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Xerox PARC
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Zuse, Konrad
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Pictures old and new, comments, and software history from the co-inventor of VisiCalc, the first personal computer spreadsheet. Also, download a free copy of Visicalc.
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Article from the University of Cambridge reporting his death, and outlining his life and achievements.
India bus crash inferno kills 16
Some 16 people died when a bus carrying Muslim pilgrims exploded in a ball of fire after colliding head-on with a truck in northern India, according to officials.
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Blind Chinese activist Chen says is at Beijing airport
BEIJING (Reuters) - Blind Chinese legal activist Chen Guangcheng said on Saturday he has left a hospital in Beijing, where he has been for the past three weeks since he sought refuge in the U.S. embassy, and was waiting at the airport. Chen said he believes he will be headed on a flight to the United States, but added he was still uncertain of it. The departure of Chen and his family would mark the removal of a sticking point in already difficult U.S.-China relations that have been marred by China's handling of human rights. The U.S. embassy was not immediately available for comment. ...
