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• Investing Value: Bill Gates Biography
Biographical information on the founder of the Microsoft computer software company. Includes information on Bill Gates and related business people.
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• ITworld: The Future According to Dennis Ritchie
Few names in computing are bigger than that of Dennis Ritchie. In this interview, Ritchie talks about the future of C and the C99 standard, Plan 9, and offers advice to would-be authors of programming languages.
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• Jamboree Talks: Butler Lampson
University of Edinburgh, summaries of: Computer Security in the Real World (Milner lecture); Computer Systems Research: Past and Future; How to Build a Highly Available System without a Toolkit.
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• Jargon File Resources
The Jargon File (AKA, _The New Hacker's Dictionary_) is an essential repository of computer historical information.
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• Java, timelines
A short history of early Java from 1991 to 1995.
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• Java: Cornerstone of the Global Network Enterprise?
Brian Youman's paper on Java including some historical notes: "Java: Cornerstone of the Global Network Enterprise?"
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• Jobs 2.0: A Timeline
Steve Jobs has been back at Apple for 13 months. The bottom line, and much else, looks different. [Wired News]
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• John von Neumann
Biography, links, and six photographs.
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• John von Neumann
Photographs of, and related to, John von Neumann.
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• John von Neumann
Brief biography along with details of a number of areas he worked in.
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• Konrad Zuse
Biography and history of his life.
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• Konrad Zuse
Builder of the first functioning, freely programmable, and fully automatic computer (Z3), which he installed in his parents' living room in Berlin in 1941. Brief chronology, pictures, links, bibliography.
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• Konrad Zuse and His Computers
By his son, Dr. Horst Zuse: a guided tour of Zuse computers and companies, the Konrad Zuse Multimedia Show, and Konrad Zuse's versus John von Neumann's computer concepts.
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• Konrad Zuse Internet Archive
Large Zuse site: papers, comments, programs, replicas, image gallery, links.
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• Learn Cool: Bill Gates Fan Club
Lists qualities of Bill Gates. Also contains photographs and links on Bill Gates.
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• Learnativity: An Introduction to Doug Engelbart's Revolution
Background, insight, and resources for learning how Doug Engelbart's vision has a profound influence on learning and productivity today.
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• Lemonade
Lengthy, passionate response from Ted Nelson to the Wired article "The Curse of Xanadu".
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• Linux Today: Richard Stallman, 15 Years of Free Software
By Stallman: brief article taking stock of 15 years of progress; with feedback responses.
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• Marvin Lee Minsky: Matter, Mind and Models
Page with picture, and link to the document, which attempts to explain why people become confused by questions about the relation between mental and physical events.
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• Marvin Minsky Comment on Schooling
Thought provoking; part of some pages on home schooling.
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• McCarthy, John
Inventor of the Lisp programming language, arguably the oldest language in active use today (and a likely candidate for oldest high-level language overall, in competition with Fortran)
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• Memoir of a Homebrew Computer Club Member
An original Homebrew Computer Club member, Bob Lash, shares memories, photographs, stories and diagrams from the early days of personal computing.
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• Mensa - Sir Clive Sinclair
Biography of Sir Clive Sinclair from Mensa, the society for brainy people which he chaired from 1980-97.
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• Metcalfe, Bob, The Legend of
Wired article
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• Michael John Muuss
Details of his research interests.
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• Michael Muuss
Tribute from the Johns Hopkins Digital Media Center, where a workstation is named after him.
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• 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.
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• Millenium
A biography of Håkan Lans.
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• Mind Machine Museum
A collection of information and illustrations on the subjects of computers, calculators and games. Topics include the IBM 5100 portable computer and the Commodore KIM-1 and VIC 20 microcomputers.
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• Minsky, Marvin
One of the pioneers of artificial intelligence, and cognitive psychology, also work in mathematics, computational linguistics, robotics, optics. MIT.
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• MIT Coop: Seymour Papert
Papert's 'Faculty Author Listing' of an online bookstore for the MIT community.
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• MIT Media Lab: Seymour Papert
Papert was a founding faculty member of the Media Lab, and now works there part-time. The Media Lab site has been hard to reach lately and is often inaccessible, but be patient and keep at it: it is well worthwhile.
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• Monopoly
Parody song written by Mike Muuss to the tune of "Yesterday", bemoaning broken game software.
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• MouseSite
Resource for exploring the history of human computer interaction beginning with the pioneering work of Douglas Engelbart and his colleagues at Stanford Research Institute in the 1960s.
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• mprove: Alan Kay Bibliography
An extensive list of references to articles by Alan Kay. Excerpts of his master's and Ph.D. thesis.
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• MUF Mastery: Alan Kay
Brief biography with perceptive editorial comments.
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• MUF Mastery: Donald Knuth
Brief biography with perceptive editorial comments.
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• MUF Mastery: Edsger W. Dijkstra
Brief biography with perceptive editorial comments.
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• Museum of the USSR Computers History
A virtual museum containing historical information on computers and computer facilities in the USSR. Includes descriptions of computers, their characteristics, pictures, and personalities.
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• National Inventors Hall of Fame: Douglas Engelbart
Inducted 1998, for inventing the mouse: 'X-Y Position Indicator For A Display System', Patent No. 3,541,541. Very brief biography and picture.
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