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From Kant to working minds: how a philosopher took up AI

From Lakeside programmer to Microsoft veteran to major donor

From Lex to the network as the computer: the technical thread in Eric Schmidt's career

From logical clocks to TLA+: how Lamport made distributed systems checkable

From Mars maps to PLANET: how Jacques Vallée moved from astronomy into networking

From mathematics to computation: Rudy Rucker

From mathematics to information retrieval: the career of Keith van Rijsbergen

From memory hardware to the calculus of cause and effect

From minicomputer to router lab: how Xinu kept moving

From multi-user CP/M to FlexOS: the MP/M family line

From nondeterminism to randomness: the research thread of Michael O. Rabin

From NSA programmer to the MARC record: how Henriette Avram made the catalog computable

From pancake sorting to the price of anarchy

From paper folding to algorithms: the work of Erik Demaine

From personal computer parts to arcade cabinets

From Phase III to PNG: the range of one programmer's work

From porting aid to FreeMiNT: how MiNT grew up

From probabilistic robotics to the self-driving car

From RSX-15 to a family of real-time systems

From Shakespeare ciphers to smuggling cases and Enigma spies

From SHRDLU to software design: how Terry Winograd changed course

From simulation software to the barrier method revival

From Sketchpad to the desktop: how the graphical interface took shape

From Sketchpad to the Utah classroom

From SNOBOL compilers to GNAT Ada: the career of Robert Dewar

From stargazer to data structure designer: the path of Robert Tarjan

From studying flight crews to building thinking programs

From tabulating machines to the System/360: how IBM became a computing company

From teacher training school to a source of computing talent

From Tele2 customer service to Skype and venture capital

From the first wiki to technical debt: Ward Cunningham's ideas

From the MIPS project to the textbook: how Hennessy carried RISC out of the lab

From the MU5 to SystemVerilog: the working life behind Verilog

From the treap to the cockpit: the two careers of Cecilia R. Aragon

From wartime Berlin to a Munich museum: the road of the Z4

From weapons physics to a six-by-six chessboard

From Whirlwind to CSAIL: how MIT built its computing laboratories

From Word Embeddings to AI Safety: Bengio's Second Turn

From Xerox Bravo to Word, Access and memetics

Fuchsia: a color, a capability kernel and a quiet launch

Functional programming and QuickCheck: the work of John Hughes

Games built for people to play together

Gauss at the calculating table: algorithms before computers

Glowing dots, random-looking codes and an early computer recording

Goodnight and the design of the SAS workplace

Hans Peter Luhn and the problem of finding information

HarmonyOS 5 and the price of leaving Android

Haskell Curry: from combinatory logic to early programming

How 386BSD gave rise to FreeBSD and NetBSD

How a company funds a free smart home platform