I recommend good websites more often than good books. I particularly like those websites that well reflect the knowledge and personality of a single individual. By reading those websites, I can learn much from great minds and great people.

Philip Greenspun’s presence at philip.greenspun.com is one of those great websites.

Biography of Philip Greenspun

Philip Greenspun has been in and around the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 1979. He alternates between teaching traditional electrical engineering classes and teaching “Software Engineering for Web Applications” (6.171), a course that he co-developed with Hal Abelson. This has been a successful course at MIT and is being used by computer science departments at 20 other universities around the world. Greenspun is the author of two textbooks used at MIT, including Internet Application Workbook (available at http://philip.greenspun.com/internet-application-workbook/). Greenspun is an instrument-rated private pilot and has flown his Diamond Star across most of the North American continent and two-thirds of the Caribbean islands.

Photographs courtesy Philip Greenspun

Philip Greenspun’s Weblog is also a good place to visit.