• Computer Founders


  • Web Fathers


  • Babbage, Charles
  • Barksdale, Jim
  • Borg, Anita
  • Brand, Stewart
  • Bricklin, Dan - pictures, comments, and history from the inventor of VisiCalc, pioneering PC spreadsheet software.
  • Bush, Vannevar
  • Case, Steve
  • Clarke, Richard A.
  • Cunningham, Ward
  • Dahl, Ole-Johan - inventor of object-oriented programming with Kristen Nygaard.
  • Dertouzos, Michael L.
  • Dijkstra, Edsger Wybe
  • Dyson, Esther
  • Ellison, Larry
  • Engelbart, Douglas
  • Farber, David
  • Fiorina, Carly
  • Frankston, Bob - writings on Internet policy issues and infrastructure, bio, and more from the co-creator of Visicalc, and longtime software engineer.
  • Gast, Bruce
  • Gates, Bill
  • Gerstner, Lou - Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of IBM.
  • Gosling, James
  • Grove, Andrew S.
  • Hewlett, William
  • Hillis, Danny
  • Holberton, Betty (Frances)
  • Hollerith, Herman
  • Hopper, Grace
  • Jobs, Steve
  • Joy, Bill
  • Khosla, Vinod
  • Kildall, Gary
  • Kleinrock, Leonard - UCLA computer science professor who created the basic principles of packet switching and directed the transmission of the first message ever to pass over the Internet.
  • Knuth, Donald
  • Krause, Kai
  • Kurzweil, Ray
  • Lanier, Jaron
  • Loebner, Hugh - utopian engineer and sponsor of the Loebner Prize.
  • Lovelace, Ada
  • McNealy, Scott
  • Metcalfe, Bob
  • Moore, Gordon E.
  • Nelson, Ted
  • Noyce, Robert N.
  • Nygaard, Kristen - invented the concept of object-oriented programming with Ole-Johan Dahl. Also performs research on system development processes and on social implications of information technology.
  • Packard, David
  • Perens, Bruce - best known as the primary author of The Open Source Definition, one of the formative documents of the open source movement.
  • Postel, Jon
  • Puri, Ajay - home page of the Microsoft Kid.
  • Raymond, Eric
  • Rheingold, Howard
  • Ritchie, Dennis M.
  • Saffo, Paul
  • Shannon, Claude
  • Snowden, Lynn - offers an interview with the host of AOL's "Live Girl" chat.
  • Stallman, Richard
  • Stoll, Cliff
  • TIME: Top Fifty Cyber Elite
  • Torvalds, Linus
  • Tufte, Edward
  • Turing, Alan
  • von Neumann, John
  • Wall, Larry
  • Warwick, Kevin
  • Weiser, Mark
  • Wirth, Niklaus
  • Wozniak, Steve
  • Yourdon, Ed - author of Time Bomb . YK essays and resources, as well as other books on programmers and programming.
  • Zuse, Konrad



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