Weiser, Mark (1952-1999): In Memoriam  
   Memorial site for the creator of "calm computing" / "ubiquitous computing"
   http://www-sul.stanford.edu/weiser/

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

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)
   http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/

Metcalfe, Bob, The Legend of  
   Wired article
   http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/6.11/metcalfe.html

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/

Winograd, Terry  
   Terry Winograd is one of the foreground figures in research into human/computer interaction and natural language systems
   http://www-pcd.stanford.edu/~winograd/

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

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

Philip Emeagwali  
   Biography of an African American inventor, a pioneer in computing and the Internet.
   http://black-inventors.tripod.com/Africa-Computer-Whizz.htm

Memoir of a Homebrew Computer Club Member  
   An original Homebrew Computer Club member, Bob Lash, shares memories, photographs, stories and 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/content/4/18909.html

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

Watson, Thomas J. Jr. (1914-1993)  
   Long-time chairman of IBM (very brief bio)
   http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/w/watson-t1j12.asp

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/

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.
   http://www.wbglinks.net/pages/watchmen/

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