Raymond, Eric - Open Source spokesman and author of the New Hacker's Dictionary. Resume, writings, speaking engagements, FAQ, and links.Berners-Lee, Tim - A web site dedicated to the man who created the first server, web browser, and the www in general.
You Say You Want a Revolution... - Profiles of seven men who "took the huge, monolithic computers of the fifties and turned them into the shiny, friendly machines you're using today": Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Andy Grove, Ted Hoff, Mitch Kapor, Steve Wozniak, and Tim Paterson.
Cerf, Vint - "The Father of the Internet" hosts his own little fan site
Weiser, Mark (1952-1999): In Memoriam - Memorial site for the creator of "calm computing" / "ubiquitous computing"
Bush, Vannevar: As We May Think - The classic July 1945 Atlantic Monthly article, which many view as the first clear description of hypermedia.
Jobs, Steve P - Co-founder of Apple with Steve Wozniak, founder of NeXT
Computers: History and Development - Jones Telecommunications & Multimedia Encyclopedia section on "Computers: History and Development."
Jones Online Encyclopedia - Article Index - Biographies - Biographies of some computer pioneers (you may have to click on the "biographies" link or page down to get to them).
Joy, Bill - Executive biography.
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.
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)
Metcalfe, Bob, The Legend of - Wired article
Metcalfe, Robert M (Bob) - Inventor of Ethernet, founder of 3Com, long-time InfoWorld columnist
Moore, Gordon E - Scientific American interviews the Intel pioneer and establisher of "Moore's Law"
Tarjan, Robert E. - Algorithm and data structure researcher (see also Knuth and Dijkstra)
Thompson, Ken - The father of the Unix operating system
Winograd, Terry - Terry Winograd is one of the foreground figures in research into human/computer interaction and natural language systems
Watson, Thomas J. Jr. (1914-1993) - Long-time chairman of IBM (very brief bio)
Wired Magazine Archive - People - A respectable collection of interviews with a respectable lot of people
Berkeley, Edmund C. - Father of the Personal Computer