Pioneers

Berkeley, Edmund C.
Father of the Personal Computer
http://www.blinkenlights.com/classiccmp/berkeley/

Bush, Vannevar: As We Are Thinking
Commentary on Bush's classic 1945 article 'As We May Think', which many view as the first clear description of hypermedia; by a class from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/webclass/web/project1/group6/intro.html

Emeagwali, Philip
Official site of Philip Emeagwali, voted Africa's greatest scientist by New African for his work on supercomputer development. Includes booking details plus links to speeches and articles.
http://www.emeagwali.com/

Information Sciences Hall of Fame
Biographical details for many of the people who have played an important part in the foundation of Information Science.
http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~mbsclass/hall_of_fame/

Licklider, J.C.R.; 1915-1990, In Memoriam
In the 1960s, Licklider published his ideas on the future role of multiaccess interactive computing: 'Man-computer Symbiosis', and 'The Computer as a Communication Device'. Downloads in 5 formats.
http://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/DEC/SRC/research-reports/abstracts/src-rr-061.html

Memoir of a Homebrew Computer Club Member
An original member, Bob Lash, shares memories, photographs, stories, diagrams from the early days of personal computing.
http://www.bambi.net/bob/homebrew.html

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.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/05/11/microsoft_altair_basic_legend_talks/

Naur, Peter
Introduction to the works of Peter Naur, legendary Danish computer scientist, key in the creation of Algol 60, the N in BNF. Online papers, bibliography, book. English, Dansk.
http://www.naur.com/

Raymond, Eric
Open Source spokesman and author of the New Hacker's Dictionary. Resume, writings, speaking engagements, FAQ, and links.
http://catb.org/~esr/

Tarjan, Robert E.
Algorithm and data structure researcher (see also Knuth and Dijkstra)
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~ret/

Thompson, Ken
The father of the Unix operating system
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/ken/

Wheeler, David
Wikipedia biography of one of the pioneers of the Edsac computer at Cambridge, who helped to develop programming language. Includes links to obituaries.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wheeler

Wired Magazine Archive: People
A collection of interviews with notable IT people, including computing and Internet pioneers.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/people/