Links into the Wonderful World of Computer Science
The Association for Computing
Machinery (ACM) Home Page
If you got here, perhaps you should consider becoming a member of ACM, if you are
not one already. Student memberships are also available.
The IEEE (Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Computer Society Home Page
If you got here, perhaps you should consider becoming a member of IEEE-CS, if you
are not one already. Student memberships are also available.
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (Editor: Denis Howe)
"Key Events in the History of Computing" (Good, but only through the seventies or so)
Some Great Minds - evolving...
Charles Babbage (1791-1871) - "The Father of Computing"
Ada, Countess of Lovelace (1815-1852) - "The First Computer Programmer was a woman."
Alan Turing (1912-1954) - "The Father of Computability and Machine Intelligence"
Donald Knuth - Famous for The Art of Computer Programming
Bill Gates - The Controversial Mind that made a business of "Software" and incidentally became the world's richest person in the nineties
Free Software Foundation / GNU project, and the works
More to come...