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Designed by committee in three months, and who gets the credit

Designing Color Graphics Into the Apple II

ELIZA and the line between deciding and choosing

Epigrams on Programming and the Turing tarpit

Explaining the limits of computation to a wider audience

Firefox OS: a phone built from a web browser

FreeRTOS as a scheduling library for small devices

From a campus network to the Linux kernel networking code

From a frightening virus to a brand he disowned

From a Harvard computer lab to the address translation idea behind System/360 virtual memory

From a Hobby Announcement to Version 2.0: How the Linux Kernel Took Shape

From a model of human learning to expert systems

From a Moscow institute to Bell Labs: the career behind the support-vector machine

From a public domain manifesto to a GPL-licensed DOS: how FreeDOS began

From a Seattle computer club to Microsoft

From a seven-node graph to a 20-variable puzzle: Adleman and DNA computing

From a single hosts table to a distributed name database

From a sociology degree to the routers that manage Internet congestion

From a stalled expert encyclopedia to a wiki

From a student proposal to the Connection Machine

From a Telenor project to Opera and Vivaldi

From a videotape demo to discontinuation: the short life of the Hyper Neo Geo 64

From AlexNet to Safe Superintelligence: Ilya Sutskever's Three Stages

From algebraic topology to Node.js and Deno

From Altair BASIC to MS-DOS: how Microsoft became a software company

From an export lawsuit to the ciphers inside everyday software

From automata to domain theory: the career of Dana Scott

From breaking Netscape key generation to designing private messaging

From Brillo to a shuttered console

From C with Classes to an ISO standard: how C++ got its name and its rules

From chess endgames to Argus: the systems Barbara Liskov built

From classroom notation to APL and J

From cognitive science to statistical machine learning: the career of Michael I. Jordan

From compiler research to the case against paperless voting

From computational reflection to the philosophy of computing

From computer design to adaptive systems: the career of John Henry Holland

From cryptography student to quantum pioneer

From Cygnus to the Free Software Foundation: who has owned eCos

From DARPA agent programs to the Semantic Web

From Debian to Project Indiana: Ian Murdock and the complete distribution

From DEC OSF/1 AXP to Tru64 UNIX: three names and an end of life

From digits of pi to parallel benchmarks: the work of David H. Bailey

From disk sharing to file sharing: how NetWare began

From file sharing to delivery robots: the ventures of Janus Friis

From FreeBSD committer to DragonFly BSD founder

From Google search systems to TensorFlow: the infrastructure behind Jeff Dean

From Green to Ada to FITALY: Jean Ichbiah's Two Careers in Computing

From Hearsay to Sphinx: Raj Reddy and the speech recognition lineage

From HSC Software to MetaCreations: the tools Kai Krause shaped and where they went

From indexed grammars to the dragon books: how Alfred Aho built tools for language processing