Here are some autobiographies / memoirs:

Paul Ceruzzi

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Allen 

Paul 

Idea Man 

2011 

Portfolio/Penguin 

Bartik 

Jean Jennings 

Pioneer Programmer: Jean Jennings Bartik and the Computer that changed the world 

2013 

Truman State University Press 

Beranek 

Leo 

Riding the Waves: a life in sound, science, and industry 

2008 

MIT 

Berners-Lee 

Tim 

Weaving the Web 

1999 

Harper 

Getting 

Ivan A. 

All in a Lifetime: Science in the defense of democracy 

1989 

New York 

Grosch 

Herbert R.J. 

Computer: Bit slices from a life 

1991 

Novato, CA 

Hardy 

G.H. 

A Mathematician's Apology 

1976 

London 

House 

Charles H. 

Permission Denied: Odyssey of an Intrapreneur  

2012 

Menlo Park, CA 

Lukoff 

Herman 

From Dits to Bits…: A personal history of the electronic computer 

1979 

Portland, OR 

Mims 

Forrest M. 

Siliconnections: Coming of Age in the Electronic Era 

1986 

New York 

Morse 

Philip M. 

In at the Beginnings: A Physicist's Life 

1977 

Cambridge 

Ornstein 

Severo M. 

Computing in the Middle Ages: A View From the Trenches 1955-1983 

2002 

Osborne 

Adam 

Hypergrowth: The Rise and Fall of Osborne Computer Corporation 

1984 

Berkeley, CA 

Torvalds 

Linus 

Just For Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary 

2001 

New York 

Ulam 

S.M. 

Adventures of a Mathematician 

1976 

New York 

Watson 

Thomas J. Jr. 

Father, Son & Co.: My Life at IBM and Beyond 

1991 

New York 

Wiener 

Norbert 

Ex-Prodigy: My Childhood and Youth 

1966 

Cambridge 

Wiener 

Norbert 

I Am a Mathematician: The Later Life of a Prodigy 

1973 

Cambridge 

Wilkes 

Maurice 

Memoirs of a Computer Pioneer 

1985 

Cambridge 

Zuse 

Konrad 

Computer - My Life, the 

1993 

Berlin 

[And two anthologies] 

Lee 

J.A.N. 

Computer Pioneers 

1995 

Los Alamitos, CA 

Northrup 

Mary 

Collective Biographies: American Computer Pioneers 

1998 

Springfield, NJ 

 



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It’s a wonderful book, and thank you to Severo for making it publicly accessible!
Severo also did an oral history with us, as did Dave Walden and several of the other folks being mentioned in this thread. 
Best, Marc

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On Sep 5, 2020, at 07:44, Brian Berg <brianberg@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks - this is some wonderful reading.  For example, the Bob Taylor portion and the birth of the ARPANET and the ALTO computer nicely complements other books such as Leslie Berlin's Troublemakers.

Thanks, Brian Berg

On Sat, Sep 5, 2020 at 3:28 AM David Walden <dave.walden.family@gmail.com> wrote:

Severo Ornstein's memoir "Computing in the Middle Ages -- A view from the trenches, 1955-1983".

Available publicly at the Computer History Museum.
https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102785079

His journey goes from Whirlwind to TX-2 to LINC to ARPANET to Durado to Mockingbird.  At least look at the annotated Table of Contents and read the Preface to see what you'd be missing to not read his well written story.

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