35th Anniversary of the Internet (well the start of the Arpanet anyway djf)

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 23:04:23 -0700
 To: dave () farber net
 From: Leonard Kleinrock <lk () cs ucla edu>
 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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