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Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

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Leisure activities past and present: Skiing, whitewater canoeing, tennis, golf, cooking Key o rganizational memberships: IEEE, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the U.S. The ARPANET Is Born Kahn wasn’t the only one thinking about connecting disparate computers in the 1960s. There were 30 or 40 nodes on the ARPANET at the time.

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The Do-or-Die Moments That Determined the Fate of the Internet

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And by mid-1971, program director Lawrence Roberts of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) was becoming impatient with the slow pace at which ARPA-funded researchers were getting connected. One major problem was the cost and fragility of stringing a dedicated cable from every computer to every terminal. in December of the same year.

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IEEE Celebrates Engineering Brilliance

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The awards are presented on behalf of the IEEE Board of Directors. HAGIT MESSER-YARON Tel Aviv University “For contributions to sensing of the environment using wireless communication networks.” PICARD MEDAL FOR RADAR TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS Sponsor: Raytheon Technologies FRED DAUM Raytheon Technologies Arlington, Va.

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