[IP] 35th Anniversary of the Internet (well the start of the Arpanet anyway djf)
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 23:04:23 -0700
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
From: Leonard Kleinrock <lk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: 35th Anniversary of the Internet
Bcc: 35th anniversary staff
Dave,
I believe your IP readership will be very interested in the following
event.
Please post.
Len
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UCLA Holds 35th Anniversary of the Internet Symposium October 29
Google CEO Eric Schmidt to be Keynote Speaker
LOS ANGELESThe University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) will
celebrate the 35th anniversary of the birth of the Internet with an
exciting, thought-provoking symposium on Friday, October 29. Many of
the Internet’s early pioneers, influential industry leaders and
insightful young visionaries will offer their perspectives on how the
Internet came to be what it is today and what it will be like tomorrow.
The keynote address, "Conversation with Eric Schmidt" will be an
interactive exchange with Google Inc.’s chairman of the executive
committee and chief executive officer, Eric Schmidt.
On October 29 1969, UCLA computer science professor Leonard Kleinrock
led a team of engineers in launching the first Internet message from
UCLA to Stanford Research Institute.
"When we sent that first message, it marked the birth of a new method
of global communications that has forever changed the course of
business, politics, entertainment, education and social interaction,"
said Kleinrock. "Now, 35 years later, the Internet has become so
pervasive that even my 97-year-old mother uses it."
The 35th Anniversary of the Internet event is sponsored by Broadcom,
Cisco Systems and NetZero.
Through original presentations and lively discussions, the symposium’s
well-known speakers will examine four distinct sides of the Internet.
First, in a session called "The Bright Side: Gorillas of the
Internet," some of the technology industry’s heaviest hitters will
discuss the Internet’s role in today’s tech-driven economy. New York
Times reporter John Markoff will moderate this session. Speakers
include:
• Bob Aiken, director of engineering for Cisco’s Academic Research
and Technology Initiatives
• Gordon Bell, senior researcher at Microsoft’s Bay Area Research
Center
• Pat Gelsinger, senior vice president and chief technology officer
of Intel Corporation
• Henry Samueli, co-founder, chairman, and chief technical officer
of Broadcom Corporation, and professor of electrical engineering at
UCLA
In the second session, called "The Global Side: Impact Beyond
Technology," expert commentators and pioneering technologists will
discuss the social, political and educational implications of the
globalization of the Internet. This session will be moderated by Tim
O’Reilly, founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media, one of the most highly
regarded computer book publishers in the world. Speakers include:
• Alan Kay, a senior fellow at HP labs and an adjunct professor of
computer science at UCLA who, as a researcher at Xerox’s Palo Alto
Research Center in the 1970s, led efforts to develop perhaps the most
significant leap in human-computer interactivity, the graphical user
interface.
• John Perry Barlow, a retired Wyoming cattle rancher, a former
lyricist for the Grateful Dead and co-founder of the Electronic
Frontier Foundation, whose writings on the future of copyright are
taught in many law schools, and whose manifesto, "A Declaration of the
Independence of Cyberspace," can be found on more than 20,000 Web
sites. Barlow is also a Berkman Center fellow.
• Ethan Zuckerman, a fellow at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center
for Internet and Society and founder of Geekcorps, a non-profit
technology volunteer corps that pairs volunteers from US and European
high tech companies with businesses in emerging nations for one to four
month volunteer tours.
In the third session, "The Young Side: The Indigenous Digital
Generation," NYU Professor Clay Shirky moderates a discussion on how
emerging applications of the Internet, from Friendster to blogging to
mobile technologies are changing the way young people use technology.
Speakers include:
• danah boyd, a Ph.D student in the School of Information Management
and Systems at the University of California, Berkeley and a prolific
blogger.
In the fourth session, "The Future Side: Pioneers and Visionaries,"
the four fathers of the Internet predict what the future holds for one
of the most influential technologies ever developed. The session will
be moderated by Bran Ferren, CCO at Applied Minds. Speakers include:
• Vint G. Cerf, senior vice president of Technology Strategy for MCI
and co-designer of the TCP/IP communications protocols.
• Robert E. Kahn, chairman, CEO and president of the Corporation for
National Research Initiatives and co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols.
• Leonard Kleinrock, professor of computer science at the UCLA Henry
Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, who developed the
mathematical theory of packet networks and in whose lab the first
Internet message was sent in 1969.
• Lawrence G. Roberts, founder, CEO of Anagran and founder, vice
chairman of Caspian Networks, who was the driving force behind the
development of the Arpanet while Director of Information Processing
Techniques for ARPA.
Other commentators continue to join the event’s list of speakers. To
register as a guest, or for more information about the 35th Anniversary
of the Internet at UCLA, go to http://www.internetanniversary.com.
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