[ih] ARPANet anniversary

[rick tait]

I was lucky enough to attend the "40th Anniversary of the Internet"
conference yesterday, a one-day event held at the UCLA Henry Samueli School
of Engineering & Applied Science. Prof. Kleinrock acted as MC throughout the
day, Nicholas Negroponte gave an excellent keynote, and a wide-ranging
series of panels and moderated discussions were held. It was jolly good, and
I had a great time. The program list is here, and includes a full list of
the speakers and points of discussion:

http://www.engineer.ucla.edu/IA40/program.html

I understand the entire event was broadcast live on ustream, and was also
recorded so anyone can watch any of the speeches or discussions. They are
archived here:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/internet-40th-anniversary-ucla

I'd highly recommend watching the speech by the newly-appointed Director of
DARPA (Regina E. Dugan); it was so very refreshing to see a fairly young,
non-male head of a serious US.gov agency. And she really seems to "get it".

Her speech is here: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/2448272

Best,
Rick Tait
UNIX Engineer & on-net for 19 of those 40 years.


For some reason, Noel Chiappa said on 10/30/09 8:20 AM:

> So, Fox news has a nice little segment about how today is the 40th anniversary
> of the ARPANet. The usual journalistic mistakes abound: they said it was the
> 40th anniversary of the Internet - which I can sort of forgive them for - and
> also the 40th anniversary of the WWW - which is a little less excusable.
> 
> Still, at least they covered it: I saw nothing on CNN (either the main page,
> or the technology section), nor on the NYT site (ditto).
> 
> The thing that was most irritating is that it was very Kleinrock-centric,
> leaving out Licklider (one especially irritating segment went on about
> 'computers talking to people', or words to that effect, leaving out Lick's key
> role in that idea), Taylor, Roberts, etc.
> 
>      Noel