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• Celeb State - Bill Gates Fan Site
Bill Gates fansite with photos, biography and speeches.
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• Charles Babbage
A biography by J.A.N. Lee. looking at him as a philosopher, politician, Newtonian, and industrialist.
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• Charles Babbage
Links and references.
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• Charles Babbage (1791-1871)
Includes a photograph of Babbage, and his analytical engine, along with links.
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• Charles Babbage Institute (CBI)
A research center at the University of Minnesota dedicated to promoting the study and preservation of the history of computing and information processing.
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• Chistory
The Development of the C Language (written by Dennis M. Ritchie)
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• Chronology of Personal Computers
Timeline of microcomputers from the development of the microprocessor in the 1960s through to the present day. Includes hardware, software, peripherals, companies, and individuals.
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• Colloquium de Rocquencourt: Butler Lampson
Colloquium announcement, with very good chronological publications list 1965-1996.
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• Computer History Association of California
A non-profit corporation, who safeguards and organizes the history of electronic computing, not only in California, but nationally and internationally. They collect and archive hardware, software and documents.
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• Computer History Images
Pictures of many of the pioneering computers.
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• Computer History Museum
Focuses exclusively on the history of computing. Located in Mountain View, California. Search the collection, illustrated timeline, online exhibits and select images from the collection, "This Day in History," curator's choice, and the Hall of Fellows (awards for contributions to computing).
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• Computer Industry History
Comprehensive list of links to the best computer industry history resources that can currently be found on the 'Net
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• Computer Literacy Interview: Donald Knuth
Done in 1993 by Computer Literacy Bookshops, Inc., now merged with Fatbrain. Covers wide range of Knuth's interests, good fun.
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• Computer50.org
50th Anniversary Celebrations of the Manchester Baby computer and the Manchester Mark 1 and Ferranti Mark 1.
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• Computers, Videogames and Arcade Collector's Ring
A directory of sites about the history of computers arranged categorically and with specific topic and general topic sections.
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• Computerworld's History of Computing Resources
A collection of Web resources, books and Computerworld articles about the history of computing.
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• Computerworld: This revolution brought to you by ...
Depressing story on Doug Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution: 30 years later, nothing has evolved. Some Alan Kay quotes.
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• Computing Millennium timeline
A project to create the definitive list of the 1,000 key innovations and events in the last 1,000 years of information technology.
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• ConnectedFamily.com
Companion web site to Papert's new book, The Connected Family: Bridging the Digital Generation Gap, Longstreet Press, 1996; for parents and teachers (and kids) interested in the profound changes in learning brought about by the explosion of computers in the home.
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• Conscious Machines, by Marvin Minsky
Article published in 'Machinery of Consciousness', Proceedings, National Research Council of Canada, 75th Anniversary Symposium on Science in Society, June 1991. On the Mark Hughes website.
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• Creating Jobs: Apple's Founder Goes Home Again
New York Times Magazine profile by Steve Lohr.
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• Dan Bricklin's Web Site
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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• Dennis M. Ritchie
His Lucent page. Central Unix figure, co-creator of Unix, with Ken Thompson; co-inventor of C programming language, with Brian Kernighan. Unix and C history and references.
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• Dennis Ritchie
Ultra-high resolution picture.
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• Dennis Ritchie Home Page
The actual homepage of Dennis M. Ritchie.
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• Diagram of Languages
Two diagrams showing how many languages are related to each other.
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• Dijkstra, Pioneer of Computer Science, Dies
Obituary by Rupert Goodwins on ZDNet UK.
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• Donald Knuth wins Kyoto Prize
Announcement, MAA Online: Mathematical Association of America.
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• Donald Knuth: Leonard Euler of Computer Science
Biography of the great scientist by Nikolai Bezroukov.
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• Douglas Engelbart
Very brief biography, in larger WEB Publishing Paradigms website, by Tim Guay, Simon Fraser University.
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• Douglas Engelbart and 'The Mother of All Demos'
His presentation at 1968 Fall Joint Computer Conference, was a live online hypermedia demonstration of pioneering work his group did at SRI. Later called "The Mother of All Demos" by Andy van Dam, this historic show paved the way for modern human-computer interaction.
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• Dr. Dobb's Journal: A Conversation With Doug Engelbart
Medium-long interview: worthwhile, covers history and Engelbart's current views.
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• Dr. Dobb's TechNetCast Archives: Donald Knuth
Many downloadable recordings on many topics: MIT God and Computers Lecture Series, MMIX. For many, Q&A, or forum exchanges follow; many are long.
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• Dr. Donald E. Knuth
His very own home page. Programming wouldn't be what it is today without this man. Invented TeX, Literate Programming, author of landmark series 'The Art of Computer Programming'. Professor Emeritus of The Art of Computer Programming, Stanford University.
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• Dreaming of the Future
Engelbart's Commentary from BYTE Magazine, Vol. 20(9):330, Sept. 1995. 'Digital technology could help make this a better world. But we've also got to change our way of thinking.'
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• Easysoft
Information and biograpghy of Bill Gates.
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• Edsger Dijkstra: RIP
Obituary by Andrew Orlowski, The Register.
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• Edsger W. Dijkstra Papers, 1971-1979
Burroughs Corporation Records: large, impressive list of articles and reports Dijkstra wrote about all aspects of programming; most written while a research fellow for Burroughs, Netherlands.
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• Electronic Labyrinth: Douglas Engelbart
Brief professional biography; a on-site few links.
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• Engelbart's Unfinished Revolution: Alan Kay
Brief biography, old picture.
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