How Internet Pioneers Celebrated 50 Years of the Internet (i50ieee.com) 7
Founded in 1963, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers held a special event Sunday that they said would be "inspiring engineering for the next 50 years."
The event featured talks on the origins of the internet from 80-year-old "father of the internet" Vint Cerf, along with John Shoch (who helped develop the Ethernet and internetwork protocols at Xerox PARC), Judith Estrin (who worked with Cerf on the TCP project), and Robert Kahn (who with Cerf first proposed the IP and TCP protocols). Ethernet co-inventor Bob Metcalfe also spoke at the end of the event.
Long-time Slashdot reader repett0 was an onsite volunteer, and shares that "it was incredible to meet and greet such a wonderful mix of people making technology happen... [T]he event celebrated many key technologies and innovators from the past 50 years and considerations of what is to come in the next 50 years." Video streams are available and more are coming online (including interviews with key innovators, society leadership, and more). If you could not make this event, follow-on activities continue, including the People-Centered Internet Imagine Workshop where a mix of society is working together to consider how to improve humanity's intersection with ever-expanding abilities thanks to technology.
They add that the event was made possible "through the collaboration of many professional computing societies" including the IEEE, People-Centered Internet, Google, Internet Society, IEEE Computer Society, GIANT Protocol, IEEE Foundation — and volunteers from the SF Bay Area ACM and Internet Society.
The event featured talks on the origins of the internet from 80-year-old "father of the internet" Vint Cerf, along with John Shoch (who helped develop the Ethernet and internetwork protocols at Xerox PARC), Judith Estrin (who worked with Cerf on the TCP project), and Robert Kahn (who with Cerf first proposed the IP and TCP protocols). Ethernet co-inventor Bob Metcalfe also spoke at the end of the event.
Long-time Slashdot reader repett0 was an onsite volunteer, and shares that "it was incredible to meet and greet such a wonderful mix of people making technology happen... [T]he event celebrated many key technologies and innovators from the past 50 years and considerations of what is to come in the next 50 years." Video streams are available and more are coming online (including interviews with key innovators, society leadership, and more). If you could not make this event, follow-on activities continue, including the People-Centered Internet Imagine Workshop where a mix of society is working together to consider how to improve humanity's intersection with ever-expanding abilities thanks to technology.
They add that the event was made possible "through the collaboration of many professional computing societies" including the IEEE, People-Centered Internet, Google, Internet Society, IEEE Computer Society, GIANT Protocol, IEEE Foundation — and volunteers from the SF Bay Area ACM and Internet Society.
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Nerd party? (Score:2)
https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/... [kym-cdn.com]
I could not resist :)
Re: Nerd party? (Score:2)
Happy 61st Anniversary! (Score:1)
Direct contact (Score:5, Interesting)
Not expending a follow-up post on a rancid score 0 anonymous preceding...
I spoke briefly with Cerf on a couple of occasions and learned a great deal from reading code that he wrote. A few of us heard that he was giving a talk at UCLA on results with a new protocol on ARPANET: TCP, compared with the existing NCP, and attended that.
Later, Metcalfe briefly worked at the same place that I did. I probably was introduced to him, but had no interaction beyond being instigated to look into Ethernet, and formulating some snarky comparisons between collision detection / back-off / retry, and Los Angeles traffic. Our organization was building new facilities. I wrote a memo describing the likely impact of Ethernet on software development practice, recommending that facility planning include empty conduit and outlet locations for network connection in offices and labs, to be ready whenever LAN technology became affordably available. This, surprisingly, came back to me with a costed plan, which I believe was implemented (I left the organization before the new facility was built).
I had no contribution to networking developments, but was a beneficiary of brief and early contact with what turned out to be large ideas.
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This and Musk's idea all future work will be done by AI show a nice conflict.
Sure, buildings can be 3-D printed to include all (most or many?) of the conduits but at some point someone still need to get his hands dirty.