* Virtual Museum of Computing

Pioneers of Computing

Tommy Flowers, MBE, codebreaking engineer at Bletchley Park who worked on Colossus, died on 28 October 1998, aged 92. (Born on 22 December 1905.)
Times obituary (10 November 1998) and Nando Times report

In Memory of Internet Pioneer Jon Postel, died October 1998
See also tribute from IANA, In Memoriam from the Domain Name Handbook, Times obituary (22 October 1998) and RFC2468 memo from Vinton Cerf
(Memorial service, 5 November 1998)

This exhibit provides links to "home" pages or other resources on people, both alive and dead, who have made a significant impact on computing.
  1. Howard H. Aiken (Havard Mark I)
  2. Marc Andreessen (Netscape)
  3. John V. Atanasoff (New)
  4. Boris A. Babaian (Russian supercomputers)
  5. Charles Babbage (Analytical Engine)
  6. Charles W. Bachman (databases)
  7. John Backus
  8. Gordon Bell (Digital)
  9. Tim Berners-Lee
  10. Vannevar Bush
  11. Vinton Cerf (Internet)
  12. James Clark (Silicon Graphics and Netscape)
  13. Edgar F. Codd (databases)
  14. Seymour Cray (supercomputers)
  15. Ole-Johan Dahl (Simula)
  16. Edsger W. Dijkstra
  17. John Presper Eckert (see also here)
  18. Lawrence Ellison (Oracle)
  19. Douglas C. Engelbart
  20. Andrei P. Ershov (theroretical programming)
  21. Edward A. Feigenbaum (AI)
  22. Tommy Flowers (Colossus engineer)
  23. Robert W. Floyd
  24. Bill Gates (see also interview and unofficial information)
  25. Kurt Gödel
  26. Richard W. Hamming
  27. Jacques Herbrand
  28. William R. Hewlett
  29. C. A. R. Hoare (CSP) (New)
  30. Marcian E. Hoff Jr
  31. Herman Hollerith
  32. Grace M. Hopper (see also here)
  33. Kenneth E. Iverson (APL)
  34. Steve Jobs (Apple and Next)
  35. Tom Kilburn
  36. Donald E. Knuth (TeX)
  37. Sergei A. Lebedev (MESM computer, Ukraine)
  38. Augusta Ada Lovelace
  39. Carver Mead (New)
  40. John McCarthy (AI)
  41. Benoit Mandelbrot
  42. John W. Mauchly
  43. Robin Milner (LCF, ML and CCS)
  44. Harlan Mills
  45. Marvin Minsky
  46. Charles E. Molnar
  47. Nicholas Negroponte
  48. Ken Olsen
  49. David Packard
  50. Blaise Pascal
  51. John Pinkerton
  52. Jon Postel (Internet)
  53. Dennis M. Ritchie (Unix)
  54. P. Georg and Edvard Scheutz (Difference Engine, Sweden) (New)
  55. C. E. Shannon (information theory)
  56. Sir Clive Sinclair (personal computers)
  57. George R. Stibitz
  58. Christopher Strachey (denotational semantics)
  59. Ivan E. Sutherland (graphics)
  60. Ken Thompson (Unix)
  61. Linus Torvalds (Linux)
  62. Alan M. Turing (Colossus and code-breaking)
  63. John von Neumann (see also here)
  64. An Wang
  65. Maurice V. Wilkes (EDSAC)
  66. J.H. Wilkinson (numerical analysis)
  67. Freddie C. Williams
  68. Niklaus Wirth
  69. Stephen Wolfram (Mathematica)
  70. Steve Wozniak (1996 Kilby Laureate, Apple)
  71. Konrad Zuse (New) (see also here)

See also:

Please email Jonathan Bowen on J.P.Bowen@reading.ac.uk if you know of relevant or better WWW home pages not included here, especial names listed without a link.