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title: OIP — Thinkers
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> **Shelf size:** 33 self-explaining articles

# Thinkers

## §SELF — oip-thinkers

**What this page is:** the shelf index for Thinkers in the OIP Thinker Reference tree.
**What it explains:** every article on this shelf, linked for traversal.
**Why read it:** enter one conceptual neighborhood without scanning the full hub.

## Articles on this shelf

- [Alan Kay — The Big Idea Is Messaging](https://miscsubjects.com/a/thinker-alan-kay)
- [Alfred North Whitehead — Process and Reality](https://miscsubjects.com/a/thinker-alfred-north-whitehead)
- [J.L. Austin and John Searle — Speech Acts](https://miscsubjects.com/a/thinker-austin-searle)
- [Barbara Liskov — Abstract Data Types and Distributed Consensus](https://miscsubjects.com/a/thinker-barbara-liskov)
- [Bram Cohen — BitTorrent and Content-Addressed Protocol Design](https://miscsubjects.com/a/thinker-bram-cohen)
- [Butler Lampson — Protection and Access Control](https://miscsubjects.com/a/thinker-butler-lampson)
- [Carl Hewitt — The Actor Model](https://miscsubjects.com/a/thinker-carl-hewitt)
- [Charles Sanders Peirce — Signs, Abduction, and Pragmatism](https://miscsubjects.com/a/thinker-charles-peirce)
- [Doug Engelbart — Augmenting Human Intellect](https://miscsubjects.com/a/thinker-doug-engelbart)
- [Eric Brewer — The CAP Theorem](https://miscsubjects.com/a/thinker-eric-brewer)
- [Gilbert Simondon — Technical Objects and Individuation](https://miscsubjects.com/a/thinker-gilbert-simondon)
- [Gilles Deleuze — The Rhizome and Multiplicity](https://miscsubjects.com/a/thinker-gilles-deleuze)
- [Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz — The Universal Characteristic](https://miscsubjects.com/a/thinker-gottfried-leibniz)
- [Gregory Bateson — Information as Difference](https://miscsubjects.com/a/thinker-gregory-bateson)
- [Heinz von Foerster — Second-Order Cybernetics](https://miscsubjects.com/a/thinker-heinz-von-foerster)
- [Jack Dennis — The Forgotten Origin of Capabilities](https://miscsubjects.com/a/thinker-jack-dennis)
- [James Gibson — Affordances and the Theory of Perception](https://miscsubjects.com/a/thinker-james-gibson)
- [Juan Benet — IPFS and Content-Addressed Storage](https://miscsubjects.com/a/thinker-juan-benet)
- [Leslie Lamport — Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events](https://miscsubjects.com/a/thinker-leslie-lamport)
- [Marc Stiegler — Petnames and Introduction Patterns](https://miscsubjects.com/a/thinker-marc-stiegler)
- [Mark Miller — Capability Security and the E Language](https://miscsubjects.com/a/thinker-mark-miller)
- [Markus Lanthaler — Hydra and Machine-Readable Web Operations](https://miscsubjects.com/a/thinker-markus-lanthaler)
- [Niklas Luhmann — Social Systems and Communication](https://miscsubjects.com/a/thinker-niklas-luhmann)
- [Norman Hardy — KeyKOS and the Persistent Capability Operating System](https://miscsubjects.com/a/thinker-norman-hardy)
- [Pat Helland — Life Beyond Distributed Transactions](https://miscsubjects.com/a/thinker-pat-helland)
- [Ramon Llull — The First Machine for Reasoning](https://miscsubjects.com/a/thinker-ramon-llull)
- [Robin Milner — Types, Processes, and the Pi Calculus](https://miscsubjects.com/a/thinker-robin-milner)
- [Roy Fielding — The Man Who Named How the Web Works](https://miscsubjects.com/a/thinker-roy-fielding)
- [Jerome Saltzer and Michael Schroeder — The Protection of Information in Computer Systems](https://miscsubjects.com/a/thinker-saltzer-schroeder)
- [Satoshi Nakamoto — Bitcoin and the Append-Only Ledger](https://miscsubjects.com/a/thinker-satoshi-nakamoto)
- [Ted Nelson — Xanadu and the Dream of Connected Documents](https://miscsubjects.com/a/thinker-ted-nelson)
- [Tim Berners-Lee — The Universal Link and the Semantic Web](https://miscsubjects.com/a/thinker-tim-berners-lee)
- [Vannevar Bush — The Memex and the Trail of Thought](https://miscsubjects.com/a/thinker-vannevar-bush)

## Up the tree

- [Thinker Reference hub](https://miscsubjects.com/a/oip-thinker-reference)
- [OIP root](https://miscsubjects.com/a/oip)

## Sibling shelves

- [Thinkers](https://miscsubjects.com/a/oip-thinkers)
- [Protocol Concepts](https://miscsubjects.com/a/oip-protocol-concepts)
- [OIP Lineages](https://miscsubjects.com/a/oip-from-lineages)
- [Token Drop Guides](https://miscsubjects.com/a/oip-token-drop-guides)

