(1926–2017) — cultural critic, art critic, novelist and poet; Marxist; best known for Ways of Seeing (1972) but also Booker Prize-winning novelist (G., 1972); lived among peasant farming communities in the French Alps

See also: Ways of Seeing, G., Benjamin, Walter, Barthes, Roland, Warhol, Andy, Marx, Karl

¶Berners-Lee, Tim

(1955–) — computer scientist, inventor of the World Wide Web

See also: ARPANET, TCP/IP, Xanadu, Nelson, Ted

¶Betteridge, Ian

Journalist. Former editor of MacUser. Best-known for finding Betteridge's Law. I know Ian, thoygh I can't remember if I ever worked for him. Certainly I wrote for MacUser

¶Brainerd, Paul

(1947–) — software entrepreneur (founder of Aldus; coined the term 'desktop publishing')

See also: Aldus Corporation, PageMaker, Desktop Publishing

¶Bricklin, Dan

(1951–) — software developer (co-creator of VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet)

See also: VisiCalc, Frankston, Bob, Spreadsheet

¶Bush, Vannevar

(1890–1974) — engineer and inventor (Memex)

See also: Memex, "As We May Think", Engelbart, Douglas, Nelson, Ted

¶Cerf, Vint

(1943–) — computer scientist (co-creator of TCP/IP)

¶Curry, Chris

(1946–) — entrepreneur (co-founder of Acorn Computers)

See also: Acorn Computers, Hauser, Hermann, Wilson, Sophie, Furber, Steve, ARM Holdings

¶Dick, Philip K.

(1928–1982) — novelist

¶Duchamp, Marcel

(1887–1968) — artist

See also: Warhol, Andy, Benjamin, Walter, Read, Herbert

¶Eco, Umberto

(1932–2016) — novelist and semiotician

¶Engelbart, Douglas

(1925–2013) — inventor and pioneer (augmentation of human intellect)

See also: Mother of All Demos, Bush, Vannevar, Nelson, Ted, HyperCard

¶Faggin, Federico

(1941–) — engineer (Intel 4004; co-founder of Zilog)

See also: Intel, Zilog, Shima, Masatoshi

¶Foucault, Michel

(1926–1984) — philosopher

See also: Barthes, Roland, Baudrillard, Jean

¶Frankfurt, Harry G.

(1929–2023) — philosopher

¶Frankston, Bob

(1949–) — software developer (co-creator of VisiCalc)

See also: VisiCalc, Bricklin, Dan, Spreadsheet

¶Furber, Steve

(1953–) — engineer (co-designer of the ARM processor at Acorn)

See also: ARM Holdings, Acorn Computers, Wilson, Sophie, Curry, Chris, Hauser, Hermann, RISC

¶Gates, Bill

(1955–) — entrepreneur (Microsoft)

See also: Kildall, Gary, DOS, Digital Research

¶Gibson, William

(1948–) — novelist

See also: Sterling, Bruce, Swanwick, Michael, New Worlds, Dick, Philip K.

¶Graeber, David

(1961–2020) — anthropologist

¶Habermas, Jürgen

(1929–) — philosopher

See also: Frankfurt School, Adorno, Theodor, Horkheimer, Max

¶Hafner, Katie

— journalist and author (When Wizards Stay Up Late)

See also: When Wizards Stay Up Late, ARPANET

¶Hauser, Hermann

(1948–) — entrepreneur (co-founder of Acorn Computers)

See also: Acorn Computers, Curry, Chris, ARM Holdings, Wilson, Sophie, Furber, Steve, Saxby, Robin

¶Hayes, Dennis

— author and activist

See also: Behind the Silicon Curtain, Processed World

¶Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

(1770–1831) — philosopher

See also: Marx, Karl, Adorno, Theodor, Kant, Immanuel

¶Hewlett, Bill

(1913–2001) — engineer and entrepreneur (co-founder of Hewlett-Packard)

See also: Hewlett-Packard, Packard, Dave, California Garage, The

¶Hollerith, Herman

(1860–1929) — inventor (tabulating machine; founded company that became IBM)

¶Horkheimer, Max

(1895–1973) — philosopher

See also: Frankfurt School, Adorno, Theodor, Habermas, Jürgen, Benjamin, Walter

¶Horn, Bruce

(1957–) — software designer (Macintosh Finder; original Macintosh team)

See also: HyperCard, Atkinson, Bill, Raskin, Jef, Jobs, Steve

¶Jobs, Steve

(1955–2011) — entrepreneur and designer

See also: NeXT, NeXTSTEP, OpenStep, Raskin, Jef, Wozniak, Steve, Tevanian, Avie, Atkinson, Bill

¶Joy, Bill

(1954–) — computer scientist (co-founder of Sun Microsystems; BSD Unix; vi editor; Java)

See also: Sun Microsystems, BSD, SunOS, Solaris

¶Kahn, Bob

(1938–) — computer scientist (co-creator of TCP/IP)

¶Kant, Immanuel

(1724–1804) — philosopher

See also: Hegel, G.W.F., Spinoza, Baruch

¶Kidder, Tracy

(1945–) — journalist and author (The Soul of a New Machine)

See also: The Soul of a New Machine, Data General

¶Kildall, Gary

(1942–1994) — computer scientist (CP/M; Digital Research)

See also: Digital Research, DOS, Gates, Bill

¶Lanier, Jaron

(1960–) — technologist, musician and critic

See also: Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Model (LLM)

¶Lispector, Clarice

(1920–1977) — novelist

¶Marsilius of Padua

(c.1275–c.1342) — political philosopher

¶Marx, Karl

(1818–1883) — philosopher and economist

See also: Hegel, G.W.F., Smith, Adam, Graeber, David, Frankfurt School, Berger, John

¶McCarthy, John

(1927–2011) — computer scientist (coined the term 'artificial intelligence'; Dartmouth Conference, 1956)

See also: Dartmouth Conference (1956), Artificial Intelligence, Lisp, Minsky, Marvin

¶Merleau-Ponty, Maurice

(1908–1961) — philosopher (phenomenology; perception and embodiment)

See also: Wittgenstein, Ludwig, Hegel, G.W.F.

¶Miner, Jay

(1932–1994) — engineer (designer of the Amiga chipset; 'father of the Amiga')

See also: Amiga, Commodore International

¶Minsky, Marvin

(1927–2016) — cognitive scientist and AI pioneer

See also: Dartmouth Conference (1956), Artificial Intelligence, McCarthy, John, Lisp

¶Montfort, Nick

— academic and author (Twisty Little Passages)

See also: Twisty Little Passages, HyperCard, Nelson, Ted

¶Moorcock, Michael

(1939–) — novelist

See also: Mother London, New Worlds, Ballard, J.G., Gibson, William, Sterling, Bruce

¶Moore, Gordon

(1929–2023) — engineer (co-founder of Intel; Moore's Law)

See also: Moore's Law, Intel, Fairchild Semiconductor, Noyce, Robert, Traitorous Eight, The

¶Nelson, Ted

(1937–) — pioneer of hypertext and hypermedia

See also: Xanadu, Berners-Lee, Tim, Bush, Vannevar, Engelbart, Douglas, Memex

¶Noyce, Robert

(1927–1990) — engineer (co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel)

See also: Fairchild Semiconductor, Intel, Moore, Gordon, Traitorous Eight, The, Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory

¶Olsen, Ken

(1926–2011) — entrepreneur (founder of Digital Equipment Corporation)

See also: Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

¶Orlowski, Andrew

— technology journalist

¶Packard, Dave

(1912–1996) — engineer and entrepreneur (co-founder of Hewlett-Packard)

See also: Hewlett-Packard, Hewlett, Bill, California Garage, The

¶Pasolini, Pier Paolo

(1922–1975) — filmmaker, poet and novelist

See also: Benjamin, Walter, Barthes, Roland

¶Peddle, Chuck

(1937–2019) — engineer (MOS Technology 6502 processor)

See also: MOS Technology, Tramiel, Jack, Commodore International, Trinity of 1977, The

¶Perens, Bruce

(1958–) — open source advocate

¶Pessoa, Fernando

(1888–1935) — poet

¶Plato

(c.428–c.348 BC) — philosopher

¶Raskin, Jef

(1943–2005) — interface designer (creator of the Macintosh project)

See also: Jobs, Steve, Horn, Bruce, Atkinson, Bill, HyperCard

¶Read, Herbert

(1893–1968) — art critic and anarchist

See also: Benjamin, Walter, Duchamp, Marcel

¶Ritchie, Dennis

(1941–2011) — computer scientist (co-creator of UNIX and C)

See also: UNIX, Thompson, Ken, AT&T Bell Labs

¶Saxby, Robin

(1947–) — businessman (first CEO of ARM Holdings; architect of ARM's licensing model)

See also: ARM Holdings, Acorn Computers, Hauser, Hermann

¶Shima, Masatoshi

(1943–2020) — engineer (co-designer of Intel 4004; Zilog)

See also: Intel, Zilog, Faggin, Federico

¶Shockley, William

(1910–1989) — physicist (co-inventor of the transistor; Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory)

See also: Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory, Traitorous Eight, The, Fairchild Semiconductor

¶Sinclair, Clive

(1940–2021) — entrepreneur (Sinclair Research)

¶Smith, Adam

(1723–1790) — economist and philosopher

¶Spinoza, Baruch

(1632–1677) — philosopher

¶Stallman, Richard

(1953–) — free software advocate

¶Sterling, Bruce

(1954–) — novelist

See also: Gibson, William, Swanwick, Michael, New Worlds

¶Swanwick, Michael

(1950–) — novelist

See also: Gibson, William, Sterling, Bruce, New Worlds

¶Tabucchi, Antonio

(1943–2012) — novelist

¶Tevanian, Avie

(1961–) — computer scientist (Mach kernel, NeXT, Apple)

¶Thompson, Ken

(1943–) — computer scientist (co-creator of UNIX)

See also: UNIX, Ritchie, Dennis, AT&T Bell Labs

¶Tramiel, Jack

(1928–2012) — entrepreneur (Commodore)

See also: Commodore International, Commodore PET, Trinity of 1977, The, Peddle, Chuck

¶Warhol, Andy

(1928–1987) — artist (pop art; mass reproduction; used Amiga at its 1985 launch to digitise Debbie Harry's face)

See also: Amiga, Benjamin, Walter, Berger, John, Duchamp, Marcel

¶Weizenbaum, Joseph

(1923–2008) — computer scientist (creator of ELIZA; critic of AI ideology)

See also: ELIZA, Computer Power and Human Reason, Artificial Intelligence

¶Wilson, Sophie

(1957–) — engineer (designed the ARM instruction set at Acorn)

See also: ARM Holdings, Acorn Computers, Furber, Steve, Curry, Chris, Hauser, Hermann, RISC

¶Wittgenstein, Ludwig

(1889–1951) — philosopher

¶Wozniak, Steve

(1950–) — engineer (Apple co-founder)

See also: Jobs, Steve, Apple II, Trinity of 1977, The