Here is a list of "Famous Computer Scientists" sites.
This page will always be under construction.
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here
to let me know of any that are missing.
Awards
Jonathan Bowen maintain
a very good site
with a list of links at least as good as this one.
The
Turing Award is
ACM's most prestigious technical award.
It is given to an individual selected for
contributions of a technical nature made to the computing
community.
The ACM sponsor the
Allen Newell Award
for career contributions that have breadth within computer
science, or that bridge computer science and other
disciplines.
Vignettes of Historical CS Figures provides some extracts
from
OUT OF THEIR MINDS: the lives and discoveries of 15 great
computer scientists
by Dennis Shasha and Cathy Lazere.
Juha Takkinen, of the Laboratory for Intelligent Information
Systems at Linköping University, maintains a
list of famous Computer Scientists
related to their laboratory.
The
Internet Pioneers
site is the Masters project of Scott Griffin, of
the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at
the University of North Carolina.