John Vincent Atanasoff:

Atanasoff: Inventor, Problem-Solver, And Inventor of the Real Computer - Jo Campbell, Ecotopics International News Service John Vincent Atanasoff & the Birth of the Digital Computer - Department of Computer Science, Iowa State University Reconstruction of the Atanasoff-Berry Computer - Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University John V. Atanasoff: Obituary - Virtual Museum of Computing

Charles Babbage:

The Life of Charles Babbage - Hosting Reviews: a more personal review of Babbage's life. Charles Babbage - School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews Who Was Charles Babbage? - Charles Babbage Institute Charles Babbage Biography - John A. N. (JAN) Lee Professor of Computer Science, Virginia Tech The Economy of Machinery and Manufactures by Charles Babbage (1832) Passages from the Life of a Philosopher by Charles Babbage (1864)

George Boole:

GeorgeBoole.com - Great site developed by the University College Cork to celebrate Boole's upcoming bi-centenary in 2015, includes commissioned original content to showcase Boole's life and legacy. Boole - School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews George Boole : The Lincoln Genius - Eileen Harrison A Computational Approach to George Boole's Discovery of Mathematical Logic - Carnegie Mellon University The Calculus of Logic by George Boole (1848) George Boole: Selected Manuscripts on Logic and its Philosophy. Review by Volker Peckhaus, Universitat Paderborn [PDF 85Kb]

Vannevar Bush:

Events in the life of Vannevar Bush, a timeline - Computer Graphics Group, Brown University Vannevar Bush - Scott Griffin, Internet Pioneers Foreseeing the Future: The legacy of Vannevar Bush - Boxes and Arrows Vannevar Bush and The Limits of Prescience - Posting, Virtual Travelog Vannevar Bush and the Atomic Bomb - Doug Long As We May Think, by Vannevar Bush Memex: Memex - at the Electronic Labyrinth As We May Think, by Vannevar Bush Emanuel Goldberg, Electronic Document Retrieval, And Vannevar Bush's Memex, Michael K. Buckland, School of Library and Information Studies, University of California at Berkeley On the Trail of the Memex: Vannevar Bush, Weblogs and the Google Galaxy, Dennis G. Jerz

Augusta Ada Byron:

Augusta Ada Byron (1815-1852) - Ryan Stansifer, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology Augusta Ada Byron - Department of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University Ada: The Enchantress of Numbers - Betty Alexandra Toole, Ed.D.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz:

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz - Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language Information, Stanford University Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz - School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews Leibniz, Gottfried (1646-1716) - Wolfram Research Leibniz's Philosophy of Mind - Mark Kulstad and Laurence Carlin Leibniz: Logic and Harmony - Garth Kemerling Leibniz’ Discourse on the Natural Theology of the Chinese and the Leibniz-Clarke Controversy - Albert Ribas Leibniz On Computers - MathPages Leibniz's Cultural Pluralism And Natural Law - Prof. Hideaki Hirano, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Hosei University, Tokyo Notes on Analysis, by Gottfried Leibniz (Translation by George MacDonald Ross) English translations of various previously untranslated papers by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz - leibniz-translations.com

Claude Shannon:

Claude Elwood Shannon - School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews Claude Shannon and Information Theory - Lucent Technologies Shannon-Weaver (General Communication) Model - Mick Underwood Lessons Learned from Claude Shannon - Robert G. Gallager, Lucent Bell Labs Claude Shannon, Father of Information Theory - Jon Hamkins, Information Processing Group, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology A Personal Tribute to Claude Shannon - Professor Arthur Lewbel, Boston College Remembering Claude Shannon - George Mason University memory project A Mathematical Theory of Communication, by Claude Shannon (1948)

George Stibitz:

George Stibitz, Father of the Modern Digital Computer - Math & Computer Science Dept., Denison University George Stibitz, Obituary - Kip Crosby, Computer History Association of California

Nikola Tesla:

Nikola Tesla, U.S. Patent Collection - Jim Bieberich, Patent Historian Adventures in CyberSound - Dr Russell Naughton Tesla, Master of Lightning - PBS Selected Tesla Writings - Twenty First Century Books The Enigma of Nikola Tesla: A Cultural Studies Analysis of His Legacy - Thomas Lee Kelley [PDF 672Kb] Nikola Tesla Museum Tour - Nikola Tesla Museum, Belgrade The Complete Tesla - Frank Germano FBI - Freedom of Information Act - Nikola Tesla - FBI FOIPA site The Tesla Memorial Society The Strange Life of Nikola Tesla, by Nikola Tesla (available for download in various formats from Blackmask online: http://www.blackmask.com/cgi-bin/newlinks/page.cgi?g=Detailed%2F1498.html&d=1)

Konrad Zuse:

Konrad Zuse Biography, RT-Distribution Konrad Zuse - John A. N. (JAN) Lee Professor of Computer Science, Virginia Tech Konrad Zuse Internet Archive The 'Plankalkül' of Konrad Zuse: A Forerunner of Today's Programming Languages - F.L. Bauer and H. Wössner, Mathematisches Institut der Technischen, Universität München The Life and Work of Konrad Zuse - Prof. Horst Zuse Konrad Zuse Multimedia Show - Prof. Horst Zuse

ASCII:

ASCII: What is It and Why Should I Care? - J Swift, Tela Communications Table of ASCII Characters: decimal, octal and hexadecimal numbers - Michael Rendell ASCII - ISO 8859-1 Table with HTML 3.0 Entity Names - Delco Electronics Corporation Characters and Strings, & ASCII - Gorry Fairhurst

Binary:

Binary Numbers Made Easy - Dept. Physics, University of Utah A Tutorial on Binary Numbers - Christine R. Wright Binary Arithmetic - Freesoft.org Hexadecimal and binary notation - Dept. Physics, University of Utah Binary 101 - The Simple Secrets of Computing - Kevin Gough, KG Computer Services

Boolean:

How Boolean Logic Works - Howstuffworks Boolean Expressions for Circuit and Ladder Logic Design - Hugh Jack, Padnos School of Engineering, Grand Valley State University A Brief Overview of Logic - Tom Ramsey, Department of Mathematics, University of Hawaii The Complexity of Boolean Functions - Prof. Ingo Wegener, Universität Dortmund Boolean Algebra and its Application to Problem Solving and Logic Circuits - Hermine Smikle, Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute All About Circuits - Volume IV - Digital Circuits - Tony R. Kuphaldt

More Pioneers:

Certified Staffing Solutions' Technology Guide: Computer Programming History. Good overview of the history of coding, including basic but well-covered breakdown of modern programming. Some interesting historical links - one great link to a 1979 Bell Labs paper on the early development of Unix. Thanks to Adam and Erica Jacobs in Portland for this link! The Evolution of Computers and Software at ithare.com - a great round-up from the Difference Engine to the iPad, with short paragraphs on all the major developments and some really useful links. Thanks to Sarah and Jessica from Colorado, who found this link and wanted to share it. A Timeline of How Computers Changed History and Business as We Know it - a nice list of some of the major evolutions in computer design, from Stibtz to the Apple Watch, at bookyourdata.com. Includes links to some useful (and some rare) downloads. Karen Kelly found this link for me - thanks, Karen! The History and Significance of Software, includes some other great links (check out the linked page: 50 Years of Hard Drives) - Link thanks to John, Robert, and the rest of the kids at their youth center in upstate New York. Great work, kids! The History of Computer Storage - Zetta.net (link provided by Mrs. Green's Media Center Class - thanks, everyone!) National Inventors Hall of Fame Pioneers of Computing - Virtual Museum of Computing The History of Computing - A chronology of digital computing machines (to 1952) Australian Computer Museum Society MacTutor History of Mathematics - St Andrews University, Scotland The History of Computing Project Pioneers of the Net A History of the Radio - Voices.com (link provided by Caitlin Walters - thanks, Caitlin!) Always Adapting: The History of Computers - a short, clear overview of how computers have changed and adapted over the years, at the Sewell Web site (Thank you, Juli at Enriching Kids for this link! ) History of the World Wide Web - Concise history of the WWW - from Licklider and DARPA, through ARPANET to the World Wide Web, with a lot of good links to more information. Thank you everyone at the Computer Club of Denver, Colorado, for sending this link!