[ih] Postel's work history

[william yeager]

> On Nov 7, 2026, at 12:02 PM, Nigel Roberts via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org <mailto:internet-history at elists.isoc.org>> wrote:
> 
> I suppose this deserves preservation

Speaking of preservation: When Jon passed away, USC/ISI locked his office on the 10th floor, and placed memorabilia, awards, etc, on the outside with photos on the windows.

I and my wife visited USC/ISI last Summer - ISI is not open to the public and requires a security clearance or a good friend with one to enter and I do have such a friend - we wanted to see the annealing quantum computer. 

We had a tour of the latter and other related facilities. My friend mentioned Jon’s office. Up the elevator we went, and there is was, a permanent shrine to this remarkable, lucid thinker. Such brilliant, gentle, and kind fellow he was. I only had sevearl telephone and email conversations with him in the late 1980s. The previous personality features were very obvious. I feel priviledged to have only briefly known Jon. 

The research on quantum communication is fascinating. On our previous year’s visit we were introduced to a young woman, Haley Weinstein, in her small lab testing what she and her colleagues’  quantum stenographic cryptography discoveries.

This is to the direction of the distant Internet physical layers as Claude Shannon’s <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Shannon> “The Mathematical Theory of Communication” paper writen in 1949  is to today's ethernet, WiFi, etc. His work on showing that boolean logic could be use for switches and relays is considered “The birth certificate of the electronic age.” It was his 1937 MIT masters thesis and is considered called the greatest masters thesis of all time by some. Many have compared Shannon's influence on the digital age to that which "the inventor of the alphabet has had on literature” The above reference is worth reading for all who have been involved in digital technology. Thus, we have Anthropic’s Claude.

The Haley Weintein paper is here <https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.03881> for those who might be interested.

Bill 



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马年快乐🐎
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保佑众生 🙏🐘🌲🦋🏃‍♀️🐳
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