Imaginary interviews with influential computer scientists:
  1. Charles Babbage.
  2. Alan Turing
  3. John von Neumann---- You may want to read the following books:

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    Selected Papers on Computer Science

    by Donald Knuth

    isbn: 1881526917 
    subject: Computing, Nonfiction
    finished: Summer 1997 

    This is a great book; I strongly recommend it to anybody interested in computer science. Although Knuth discusses many topics, the focus of the book is the question "what is computer science," and how does it relate to other disciplines, especially mathematics. A really cool essay analyzes the first program for a stored-program computer -- a sorting program written by Von Neumann. It's fascinating that even though the user interface and underlying hardware have changed beyond recognition since then, the machine language has evolved only slightly. 

     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
  4. Richard Hamming --- you may go to the following web address and read his article


    5. http://regehr.org/john/reading_list/hamming.pdf
     
     

  5. Marvin Minsky ---- read his book Computation: Finite and Infinite Machines
  6. Donald Knuth--- read his book The Art of Programming
  7. Patterson, David A., John L. Hennessy--- read their book " Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, Second Edition."
  8. Tim Berners-Lee--- the man who invent WWW. Read his book "Weaving the Web --The original design and ultimate destiny of the World Wide Web, by its inventor"


  9. STEVEN WOZNIAK--- Founder of Apple Computers and engineer invented one of the first computers Apple II. Read the following interview in San Jose Mecury News
http://www.thetech.org/revolutionaries/wozniak/i_a.html