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Much thanks to Dzonatas. This section needed to be broken out from the main Computer Science topic. --Somewherepurple

I instituted a merge, but I'm not familiar enough with these people: J.C.R. Licklider, Jay Forrester, Norbert Wiener, Vannevar Bush to add them into the table correctly. I hope someone gets to that sometime. Radagast83 05:53, 24 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

  • Here's a link explaining their significance in computing science:

http://www.ibiblio.org/pioneers/

Cheers! -Shadowfax0 (talk) 02:03, 8 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I think Ivan Sutherland should be added (Known for Sketchpad, considered by many to be the creator of Computer Graphics) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Sutherland —Preceding unsigned comment added by 187.67.87.133 (talk) 04:02, 17 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I think an external link to the CHM is germane. It's a non-profit 501(c)(3) org, covering the subject of this Wikipedia article. Board of Trustees looks reputable. Any opinions that say the CHM should not be linked in? -- Iterator12n Talk 22:57, 15 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The issue was not whether or not it should be linked in, the appropriateness of the link content itself was not the issue. As stated in the edit summary, the issue was it was added by a CHM staff member who over the past four or so months was spamming links to their own site across wikipedia pages. In fact, that account's only contributions were adding links to his own site across Wikipedia. That is violation of WP:EL and WP:COI. That is why all of that person's edits were reverted, as is routinely done for such violations. And looking further at this article, following Wikipedia's EL policy, truthfully those other links in the EL should be moved to supporting references in the list as well. I.E. content from those sites being used as references, if those sites truly contain material beneficial material for the article. This article contains zero references at the moment.--Marty Goldberg (talk) 23:04, 15 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Will respond later, GTG. -- Iterator12n Talk 03:31, 16 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Back. My first reaction is, So what if a good link is added for the wrong reason, it still is a good link. However, my second reaction is, You're right regarding the lack of references - particulalry, by what authority are these people listed as of pioneers? Without references, the list constitutes a work of original research, violating WP:OR. Conclusion: The article should be improved by providing for each entry a pointer to the authority that judges the particular person to be a pioneer. In that way, the CHM may come back as one of the authorities in the subject matter. With a little bit of time later (and if nobody else before me does the job) I'll go through the list and provide for each entry the source(s) that justify the entry. Will delete any entries without a recognized authority behind it. -- Iterator12n Talk 02:09, 17 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Order of entries

What a good system to be able to click on a button to re-order the entries in the table.--TedColes (talk) 11:48, 20 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Names for consideration

Names I would like to suggest to discuss for inclusion in 'computer pioneers'.

Jay W. Forrester coincident-current magnetic core memory, project leader of Whirlwind

Freddie Williams and Tom Kilburn "Williams tube" memory

Dudley Allen Buck inventor of cryotron, content addressable memory, Ferroelectric ram (see my talk page re: my interest in this subject)

Marcian Hoff Intel 4004

Ken Olsen co-founder Digital Equipment Corp., key person in development of TX-0 computer

James Reid Anderson - co-inventor of the acoustic coupler; founder of Information Terminals, which would be renamed Verbatim disk drive manufacturer;

If anyone knows who to credit for development / perfection of magnetic-drum memory and/or magnetic tape memory, that name might be appropriate for inclusion on this page.

Eccles and Jordan for the Eccles-Jordan flip-flop.

Harry Huskey Standards Western Automatic Computer

AlanDewey (talk) 16:20, 6 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

What about Edward Feigenbaum ?!

Changes to Boole and Minski

Marvin Minski was born in 1927, not much of an achievement. I changed Minski's date to the founding of the AI Lab/Project MAC, which is what the table mentions. Likewise, George Boole was fifteen years old in 1830. I changed the date to the publication dates of his works on logic. 75.15.115.245 (talk) 17:33, 20 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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