This is a place to put information about important figures and personages, and to branch off to discussions of their work, and its relevance to our lives.

(Another similar page should probably be created for discussion of other important projects.)

NCT

I can't do justice with summaries of my own right now.

Anne Sexton :

short bio : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Sexton

Tom Stoppard :

short bio : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Stoppard

Paul Gauguin :

short bio : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Gauguin

HDM

Gottfried Leibniz :

short bio :

http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Leibniz.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottfried_Leibniz

discussion: Personage - Gottfried Leibniz

Benjamin Franklin :

Discussion : Franklin as open source pioneer

Willard Van Orman Quine :

short bio : http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Quine.html

homepage : http://www.wvquine.org/wvq-about.html

John McCarthy :

homepage : http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/

Discussion : Personage - John McCarthy

Richard Stallman :

homepage : http://www.stallman.org/

Discussion : Personage - Richard Stallman

We should probably also add Knuth and Minsky.