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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.
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Philip Emeagwali - A father of the Internet and pioneer of the supercomputer that is part computer and part Internet. African American Inventors - black scientists inventions
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Emeagwali & Nobel laureate Maathai
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Around the world, stories about Emeagwali and his discoveries
: The "Unsung Hero" Behind the Internet
"The Web owes much of its existence to Philip Emeagwali" -
"A father of
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Wikipedia biography of one of the pioneers of the Edsac computer at Cambridge, who helped to develop programming language. Includes links to obituaries.
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
David Wheeler may refer to:
, American director of theatre and film
, American television actor
(1927–2004), British computer scientist
(born 1965), programmer and author
, born David Wheeler, English actor and writer
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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.
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Introduction to the works of Peter Naur
Peter Naur , born 1928, Danish scientist, mag. scient. in astronomy 1949,
dr. phil. 1957. 1953-59 at Københavns Universitets Astronomiske
Observatorium. 1959-69 at Regnecentralen and lecturer at Danmarks
Tekniske Højskole and Niels Bohr
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An interview with Monte Davidoff regarding the 4K BASIC interpreter he wrote with Gates and Allen.
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Microsoft Altair BASIC legend talks about Linux, CPRM and that very frightening photo
A very rare interview with Monte Davidoff
, 11th May 2001 18:51 GMT
Twenty six years ago the microprocessor revolution found a software catalyst - a tiny BASIC interpreter that ran in 4K of memory. You've
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Growing biography, with links to related topics. [Wikipedia]
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
C. Gordon Bell (born August 19, 1934) is a
and manager. An early employee of
(DEC) 1960–1966, Bell designed several of their
machines and later became Vice President of Engineering 1972-1983, overseeing the development of the
. Bell's later career
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Growing biography, with links to many related topics. [Wikipedia]
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May 11, 1930 ( 1930-05-11 )
August 6, 2002 (aged 72)
Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (May 11, 1930 – August 6, 2002; Dutch pronunciation:
for fundamental contributions to developing programming languages, and was the Schlumberger Centennial Chair of
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Obituary by Andrew Orlowski, The Register.
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, 8th August 2002 15:09 GMT
Dutch computer pioneer Edsger W Dijkstra has died, aged 72.
Over forty years, Dijkstra enriched software with many concepts, often expressed with such wit and clarity they make your teeth hum.
He most famously proselytised structured programming, but his work battled
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June 3, 1995 (aged 76)
John Adam Presper "Pres" Eckert Jr. (April 9, 1919 – June 3, 1995) was an
he invented the first general-purpose electronic digital computer (
), presented the first course in computing topics (the
), founded the first
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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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Douglas Engelbart and 'The Mother of All Demos'
Doug Engelbart's presentation at the 1968 Fall Joint Computer Conference, was a live online hypermedia demonstration of the pioneering work that Engelbart's group had been doing at SRI. Later called "The Mother of All Demos" by Andy van Dam, this
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Brief story on Engelbart getting 1997 Lemelson-MIT prize. [BusinessWeek]
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Of all the pioneers of personal computers and the Web, Douglas Engelbart may be the poorest and least-known. But the man who invented the mouse is finally winning recognition as the 1997 winner of the Lemelson-MIT prize--a $500,000 jackpot awarded annually to an American inventor.
Engelbart, 72,
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