October 29 2019 marks 50 years to the day since Leonard Kleinrock‘s team sent the first message over the Arpanet, transforming his mathematical theory of packet switching into what would become the modern Internet. To celebrate the occasion the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering will host a full day forum “Founders to Futurists: 50th Anniversary of the Internet” in Los Angeles. Speakers Vint Cerf, Eric Schmidt, Mark Cuban, Henry Samueli, Jameela Jamil, Jamie Dimon, Ashton Kutcher, Peter Thiel, Katelyn Ohashi, and more will discuss the genesis, current state and future aspirations of our connected world. The event will be webcast live on YouTube and simulcast on the Internet Society Livestream Channel.
In 1989 the world’s largest physics laboratory, CERN, was a hive of ideas and information stored on multiple incompatible computers. Sir Tim Berners-Lee envisioned a unifying structure for linking information across different computers, and wrote a proposal in March 1989 called “Information Management: A Proposal“.
By 1991 this vision of universal connectivity had become the World Wide Web.
Sir Tim spoke at both events, and both will be restreamed in full today Wednesday 13 March on the Internet Society Livestream Channel, starting at 09:00 EDT (13:00 UTC).
The 2019 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting was held in Washington, DC earlier in February with the theme ‘Science Transcending Boundaries‘. Attendees celebrated three scientific milestones: 1) 150 years ago Dmitri Mendeleev presented the Periodic Table to the Russian Chemical Society; 2) 50 years ago the first moon walk by Neil Armstrong, made possible by Apollo 11’s successful landing on the moon; and 3) the first ARPANET message was sent from the University of California, Los Angeles to the Stanford Research Institute. This early network became the basis for today’s Internet. In the case of the latter two, not only was a large cake cut and distributed, but also a panel convened of original ARPANET researchers/engineers Vint Cerf, Stephen D. Crocker, Robert E. Kahn, Leonard Kleinrock and David Walden. Today, Wednesday 27 February 2019 at 2pm ET (19:00 UTC) the Internet Society Livestream Channelwill restream that panel.
The 2017 Internet Hall of Fame induction Ceremony was held in Los Angeles on September 18 2017, in conjunction with the Internet Society’s 25th anniversary celebration. Fourteen people from around the world who have contributed significantly to the Internet’s inception, evolution and global growth were inducted Recognized for their groundbreaking contributions to the global Internet, these inductees comprise some of the world’s most influential engineers, evangelists, and entrepreneurs. The Ceremony will be re-webcast at 7pm EST today January 1 2018 via the Internet Society Livestream Channel.
What: ISOC-NY TV Show – A History of the Internet – Dave Farber
Where: Manhattan Neighborhood Network
When: Wednesday Dec 13 2017 2pm-3pm EST | 1900-2000 UTC
Manhattan Cable: TWC 56 / 1996 | RCN 83 | FiOS 34
Webcast: http://www.mnn.org/live/2-lifestyle-channel
In the talk, Dave has difiiculty recalling names of the “kids in Boston’ who came up with TCP/IP for MSDOS. Googling reveals it was Command Technologies, led by Franco Vitaliano, in 1988.
On Saturday Nov 25 2017, at 10am the Internet Society New York Chapter (ISOC-NY), with the support of the CSNYC+CSTA NYC Meetup will host a Workshop: Internet History for CS Teachers. In CS education there is currently a lot of emphasis on coding. Our aim is to, via Internet History, promote a wider understanding of open network infrastructure, its past, its values, and its future. This workshop will be conducted by Reuben Loewy, developer of the the ‘Living Online‘ Internet Studies curriculum in Princeton NJ. Special guest keynote speaker will be Internet Hall of Fame Pioneer inductee Prof. David J. Farber. Video from the workshop will be ISOC-NY’s contribution to the global Internet Society Digital Schools Chapterthon 2017. Lunch will be provided.
In this series Aleks Krotoski unravels the complexity of the internet, meeting the people who really invented it, looking behind the myths and cultural constructs to explain what it actually is and how it came to exist outside of conventional regulation.
We’ll ask whether the nature of the net itself really is cause for concern – and if so what can be done to reign in the negatives of the internet without restricting the positives?
New Zealander Brian E. Carpenter is a former Chair of the Internet Society’s Board of Trustees (2000-2002). He led the networking group at CERN during the period that Tim Berners-Lee developed the World Wide Web. He is a leading figure in the history and work of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). In other words he’s one of those many fathers of the Internet, one who has worked diligently over the years to make it what is today. He has now authored a book describing that process – Network Geeks – How They Built the Internet (Springer, 2013).
From the blurb:
Part history, part memoir and part cultural study, Network Geeks charts the creation of the Internet and the establishment of the Internet Engineering Task Force, from the viewpoint of a self-proclaimed geek who witnessed these developments first-hand. With boundless enthusiasm and abundant humour, Brian Carpenter leads the reader on a journey from post-war Britain to post-millennium New Zealand, describing how the Internet grew into today’s ubiquitous, global network, including the genesis of the World-Wide Web in the hotbeds of a particle collider at CERN. Illuminating the science and technology behind the apparent “magic trick” of the Internet, Network Geeks opens a window into the initially bewildering world of the Internet engineering geek. After reading this book, you may wish to join this world yourself
And Vint Cerf himself says:
This is a geek page-turner! I learned much about the European side of the Internet’s history that I did not know in detail and a lot about Brian himself, too. I don’t know how he remembered so much in detail!
On November 18 2009 Professor David J. Farber, now an Internet Society Trustee, gave a talk – The Technical and Political Evolution of the Internet – in the University of Delaware’s ECE Distinguished Lecturers Series. Commencing with a “how did we get here?” potted history, and continuing to prognosticate where we might go next, it is an indispensable overview of the Internet’s development from one of its prime movers. Prof. Farber is known for his ‘Farberisms‘ – mangled metaphors that push his point home. Keep an ear out for those! Video / audio can be downloaded, and it has been posted to YouTube.
October 29 2019 marks 50 years to the day since Leonard Kleinrock‘s team sent the first message over the Arpanet, transforming his mathematical theory of packet switching into what would become the modern Internet. To celebrate the occasion the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering will host a full day forum “Founders to Futurists: 50th Anniversary of the Internet” in Los Angeles. Speakers Vint Cerf, Eric Schmidt, Mark Cuban, Henry Samueli, Jameela Jamil, Jamie Dimon, Ashton Kutcher, Peter Thiel, Katelyn Ohashi, and more will discuss the genesis, current state and future aspirations of our connected world. The event will be webcast live on YouTube and simulcast on the Internet Society Livestream Channel.
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