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IoT Concerns Bring Eric Allman Out of Retirement
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In 2012, after leaving his company, Sendmail Inc., Eric Allman was supposed to retire. But after “a career of telling people to get out of my office so I could get my work done, I got lonely,” he said. So he started hanging around UC Berkeley again, going to seminars and research meetings. “At some...
MoreTim Berners-Lee's Hopes for the Internet's Next Generation of Stewards
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In anticipation of the 2017 Internet Hall of Fame ceremony on September 18th in Los Angeles, we're taking a look back at ceremonies from years past to see what's inspired us. One such moment came from Tim Berners-Lee in 2012, when he was inducted into the inaugural ...
MoreInternet-Based Apps for Sri Lanka’s Greater Good
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Gihan Dias is an active member of Sri Lanka’s Internet Society, but he has turned his focus away from building networks to developing Internet-based applications to advance his country. The first app, he told the Internet Hall of Fame, involves using technology to help the government meet its...
MoreBringing a New Generation into the Digital Future
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In this exclusive video from the Internet Hall of Fame archives, 2014 IHOF inductee Susan Estrada describes the 1988 creation of CERFnet, one of the original regional IP networks...
MoreNext Level Internet Means Easily Diagnosing Slowdowns, Disruptions
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One of the problems with today’s Internet is the unpredictable quality of experience and the inability to really determine why that spinning wheel comes up when you are watching, for example, Netflix. “We need to begin to find ways to link quality of experience and its impairment to the underlying...
MoreStephen Kent is Concerned about Your Internet Security
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As an early pioneer in Internet security, Stephen Kent says, he and others never envisioned the Internet would become such a key piece of infrastructure. “The range of things we were worried about was relatively small,” he said. “We were concerned about nation states intercepting communications and...
MoreAbhaya Induruwa Says IoT Will Fuel the Next Wave of Disruptions, Threats, Opportunities
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An early network pioneer of Sri Lanka’s Internet, Abhaya Induruwa has turned his attention in recent years to Internet of Things (IoT) security and forensics. “My line of argument is that the Internet is a fantastic thing for probably 99.5 percent of the user population,” he said. “But there is...
MoreBrewster Kahle on Deep Web Geology & the Importance of the Internet Hall of Fame
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In chronicling billions of websites and digital files, Brewster Kahle may now have earned himself the title of official historian of the Internet. As founder and director of the Internet Archive, a not-for-profit, free digital library that archives...
MoreTeus Hagan Directs Rebel Spirit Toward Environmental Protection
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Although the years of the “flower power” culture that Teus Hagen says helped shape his ideals are long gone, the accomplished mathematician and Internet pioneer is still a bit of a rebel. Retired for nearly a decade, Hagen says one of his “hobbies” is environmental activism. Now a resident of...
MoreVint Cerf Ponders the Longevity of Digital Media
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If you are literate in the appropriate language, you can still read what’s written in the Lascaux caves, Sumerian cuneiform tables, ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics and many medieval manuscripts. Meanwhile, their more recent successors—including photographs and modern books—are struggling to last...
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