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• Needham 50 and 5: Public
Details of the meeting held at Microsoft Research, UK, to celebrate Roger Needham's fifty years in Cambridge and five years at Microsoft Research. Includes details of the programme, and a copy of the presentations in PDF format.
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• Neumann, John von
Biography and references.
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• Newsbytes: Computer Pioneer Tommy Flowers Dies 11/09/98.
Obituary.
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• Norbert Wiener
Brief summary of his work, and references.
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• O'Reilly: The History of Programming Languages
A poster plots over 50 programming languages on a multi-layered, color-coded timeline.
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• Observer - Lay it on in Shovels for Roger
Article on the celebration of Roger Needham's 50th year in Cambridge.
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• OS/2 eZine: Reflections from Sweden
Reflections on the court battle over licensing fees for computer color graphics.
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• Papert.org: Professor Seymour Papert
Expert on how technology can provide new ways to learn, his contributions go beyond education: mathematician and cofounder with Marvin Minsky of MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab, founding faculty member of MIT Media Lab, where he works now. Worked for many years with Jean Piaget at University of Geneva, Switzerland.
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• Pascal history
A brief look at the birth, life, and death of the Pascal programming language.
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• PC History
This site is under construction but has some nice pictures of some pre-IBM machines.
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• Philip Emeagwali
Biography of an African American inventor, a pioneer in computing and the Internet. [PDF]
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• Pineapple
Macworld keynotes pictures, covers of magazines with Steve Jobs on.
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• Pixar About Us - Meet the Execs
Official biography of the co-founder of Pixar.
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• Planet Sinclair - Sir Clive Sinclair
Biography and chronology of Sir Clive's life (to 1986) plus various interviews.
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• Prince Kropotkin of Software
Portrait of the man and his anarchistic GNU project.
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• Professor Roger Needham, 1935-2003
Article from the University of Cambridge reporting his death, and outlining his life and achievements.
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• Punched Cards
Covers the earliest ways of encoding data up to the cards used in voting systems today.
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• Q&A: Celebrating Five Years of Innovation at Microsoft Research Cambridge
Interview with Roger Needham, on the fifth anniversary of the setting up of Microsoft's research group in Cambridge.
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• Quux.Org Archive & Library
An archive aimed at preserving important pieces of computing and general history. It contains source code and programs with an eye towards emulators and rare/endangered code. Also present are specs and photos of old equipment and several e-book collections.
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• Raymond, Eric
Open Source spokesman and author of the New Hacker's Dictionary. Resume, writings, speaking engagements, FAQ, and links.
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• Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper
Biography and photograph.
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• Reflections of a ModemJunkie
Writings on computers, the early online world, and the Internet, dating from 1992 to 2000.
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• Reflections on the Decline of Science in England and on Some of Its Causes
Complete text of the volume by Babbage, part of the Project Gutenberg archive.
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• Remembering Grace Murray Hopper: A Legend in Her Own Time
Biography by Elizabeth Dickason.
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• Review: Minsky's Society of Mind
If two minds are better than one, then how about two thousand? Positive review with references. On EMC/Paradigm Publishing website.
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• Roger Needham - An Informal Memoir
Article in PDF format describing his life, work, and achievements.
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• Roger Needham 1935-2003
Tribute from Microsoft Research.
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• Salon 21st: The Richard Stallman Saga, Redux
By Andrew Leonard. 'The saint of free software' sparks new debates about the philosophy of the open source movement: lively exchange between Stallman and Eric Raymond, and Tim O'Reilly response.
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• Salon 21st: The Saint of Free Software
By Andrew Leonard. Maverick Richard Stallman keeps the faith; and gives Bill Gates the finger. Entertaining true life reporter's experience of time spent with Stallman.
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• Salon Directory
Articles.
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• Salon.com: The once and future Steve Jobs
Excerpts from Alan Deutschman's biography, The Second Coming of Steve Jobs.
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• Salon: Brilliant Careers: Of mice, men and machines
Doug Engelbart invented the mouse. He still dreams of upgrading the human operating system.
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• School's Out? A Conversation with Seymour Papert
Interview at The Matrix: MEME 2.13. Treats Papert's favorite topics: children, computers and the end of schools as we know them.
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• Scientist on the Set: An Interview with Marvin Minsky
From the online book, edited by David G. Stork: Hal's Legacy: 2001's Computer as Dream and Reality.
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• Silicon Valley History and Future
Silicon Valley -- San Francisco Bay Area -- background, trends and forecast
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• SiliconValley.com: The Mouse
Douglas Engelbart's early ideas about computing, like those of other valley pioneers, were way out there; 30 years later, the rest of us are catching on. Warm, sympathetic reasonably long piece; good pictures.
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• Sinclair in Cambridge
Very brief history of Sinclair in Cambridge, and of Cambridge University's Sinclair Building.
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• SJSU Virtual Museum
Photograph and short biography.
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• Slashdot - Steve Wozniak Unbound
Apple co-founder answered questions put to him by 11 Slashdot readers.
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• Slashdot:The Author of Ping is Reported Dead
Discussion thread of people reacting to news of his death. Includes possibly tasteless technical jokes such as "RIP: 100% packet loss."
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