Section 3 People

leader of Project Whirlwind, first interactive computer

• Jay Forrester

• John McCarthy

• Fernando Corbato

• John Kemeny and Thomas E Kurtz

computer scientist who promoted the idea of timesharing; also created the Lisp programming language

• Jay Forrester

• John McCarthy

• Fernando Corbato

• John Kemeny and Thomas E Kurtz

developer of CTSS, an early timesharing system at MIT

• Kenneth Olsen

• John McCarthy

• Fernando Corbato

• John Kemeny and Thomas E Kurtz

co-developers of the BASIC programming language

• Kenneth Olsen

• Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie

• Fernando Corbato

• John Kemeny and Thomas E Kurtz

founder of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), an influential developer of minicomputers

• Kenneth Olsen

• Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie

• J.C.R. Licklider

• Leonard Kleinrock, Paul Baran and Donald Davies

co-developers of the Unix operating system

• Norm Abramson

• Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie

• J.C.R. Licklider

• Leonard Kleinrock, Paul Baran and Donald Davies

helped to create the ARPANET, the forerunner of today's internet

• Norm Abramson

• Robert Taylor

• J.C.R. Licklider

• Leonard Kleinrock, Paul Baran and Donald Davies

independently developed the concept of store and forward packet switching for computer networks

• Norm Abramson

• Robert Taylor

• Douglas Englebart

• Leonard Kleinrock, Paul Baran and Donald Davies

created ALOHAnet, the first wireless computer network

• Norm Abramson

• Robert Taylor

• Douglas Englebart

• Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn

director of the Xerox PARC research team, which invented many technologies used in personal computers

• Robert Metcalfe

• Robert Taylor

• Douglas Englebart

• Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn