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• Smalltalk.org: Alan Kay
Brief information on Xerox PARC, Kay quotes, Steve Jobs impression, a few links.
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• Smithsonian Oral and Video Histories: Steve Jobs
Excerpts from an Oral History Interview with Steve Jobs.
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• SPACEWAR: Fanatic Life and Symbolic Death Among the Computer Bums
Famous Rolling Stone article by Stewart Brand, part of which discusses PARC, Alan Kay, Dynabook, Smalltalk.
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• Squeak Wiki: Alan Kay
Brief biography, old picture, some links, contact information.
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• Stallman.org: Richard Stallman's Personal Page
Founder of GNU Project and Free Software Foundation, and father and current maintainer of the One True Emacs. Read the Master in a background of quietly understated elegance. Personal essays, political opinions, travel experiences, brief biography.
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• Steve Jobs - Wikipedia
Biography from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: brief history, business ventures, quotes, and links.
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• Steve Jobs Info
Movies, audio clips, pictures, history, 1995 Oral History Interview.
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• Steve's Résumé
From his personal site.
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• Tarjan, Robert E.
Algorithm and data structure researcher (see also Knuth and Dijkstra)
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• Ted Nelson and Xanadu
A brief history of Nelson and Xanadu.
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• Ted Nelson's Home Page
Portrait, biography, projects and links to comments on him and his work.
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• Ted Nelson, Hypertext Pioneer
ZDTV article describing his work on Xanadu.
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• Teletext - Then and Now
Discover the evolution of the Teletext system. Events spanning 1972 to the present with topics such as CEEFAX, ORACLE and the BBC micro software. Written by Mark Cook and Mike Brown.
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• The "Unofficial" Bill Gates
Biography, photographs, net worth, family, and the house on Lake Washington for the world's richest man.
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• The Ada Picture Gallery
Includes a selection of portraits of Ada, Countess of Lovelace.
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• The Adventures of Sir Clive
Amusing fictional story featuring Sir Clive Sinclair.
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• The Almanac: Douglas Engelbart
Computer visionary seeks to boost people's collective ability to confront complex problems coming at a faster pace. Medium-long story.
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• The Analytical Engine
Includes reprints of historical documents, Java applet emulator and source code, glossary and other resources.
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• The Babbage Pages
Gives an introduction to his life and work, along with details of current research on him.
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• The Babbage Pages: Ada Lovelace
Brief biography with references.
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• The Children's Machine by Seymour Papert
One educator's positive review of Papert's book: '[His] philosophy of learning contrasts sharply with his depiction of schools' epistemology'.
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• The Evolution of the Modern Computer - An Open Source Graphical History
This is the home of the Computer Evolution File. This file attempts to provide a comprehensive graphical representation of the evolution of the modern computer for the period 1934 to 1950. The file is licensed with an attribution, share alike creative commons license.
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• The Faces in Front of the Monitors
Pictures of people who have made a mark in any of the following: programmable computer systems, computer networks, the Internet or the security involved with those systems.
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• The Gary Kildall Legacy
Biography and portrait.
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• The History of Computer Programming Languages
Short concise article on programming language history with some links.
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• The History of Computer Science: From the Past to the Present
An overview of the developments that allowed the modern day computer to arise from first principles, including looking at Stonehenge, ENIAC, Pascaline, and Turing machines.
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• The History of Computing
Detailed information including early pioneers and companies, archives, languages, and networking from the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech.
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• The History of Computing Project
Offers a detailed timeline on the history of computer. Sections include hardware, software, pioneers and references.
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• The History of Computing Science: From the Past to the Present
Lecture presented by Michelle A. Hoyle explaining how computers and computing science arose from using sticks with notches for counting, to the massive explosion of personal computers in the 1980s.
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• The History of Project Delta
Photographs from the era, mailing list, alumni directory, and a PDP-11 simulator with RSTS/E operating system.
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• The Jay Miner Society
About the organisation and Jay Miner.
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• The Lemelson-MIT Prize Program: Douglas C. Engelbart
Inventor of the Week Archives: The computer mouse. The national Lemelson-MIT Awards gives the world's largest single prize for invention and innovation, the annual $500,000 dollar Lemelson-MIT Prize.
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• The Life and Work of Konrad Zuse
EPE Online article by Konrad Zuse's son, Prof. Horst Zuse. Well written biography, many historical pictures.
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• The Modern History of Computing
Historical survey from Babbage onward; by B. Jack Copeland from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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• The Obsolete Technology Website
Pictures, documents, and advertisements of classic computers from the 1970's and 1980's.
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• The Register: PING Author Killed in Car Crash
Kieren McCarthy's article about Muuss' death.
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• The State of the Beard O' Jobs (S.B.O.J.)
Humorous site about the state of the Beard of Steve Jobs, past, present, and future.
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• The Tech - The Revolutionaries - Steve Wozniak
As part of The Revolutionaries series, Jill Wolfson interviews the Apple co-founder.
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• The Washington Award
Prestigious engineering award, given by The Western Society of Engineers, won in 2001 for developing the first electronic spreadsheet, VisiCalc.
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• The Ways of Counting
Essay on the history of computers from the abacus, logarithm, ENIAC, and massively parallel computers. Written by computer pioneer Philip Emeagwali.
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