
Vint Cerf Visits Cuba
Marconi Fellow Vint Cerf gave an unusual talk recently in Cuba, providing an audience of Communications Ministry officials and recent computer science graduates with a history of the Internet and Google’s projects to bring it to less developed…

Vint Cerf Remembers Ray Tomlinson
By Hatti Hamlin
While Marconi Vice-chair Cerf worked in California on the early implementation of TCP, Ray Tomlinson did related worked at BBN in Massachusetts, Tomlinson, who died at 74, wrote one of the first implementations of TCP. He's…

Kleinrock, Kahn Appear in Werner Herzog Doc About the Net
By Hatti Hamlin
On October 29, 1969, Marconi Fellow Len Kleinrock's student Charlie Kline typed "L-O" then the connection was lost. An hour later, the full L-O-G-I-N was successful. Legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog has made Lo and Behold;…

Bob Kahn – Historical Perspective on the Internet
By Hatti Hamlin
Marconi Fellow Bob Kahn, considered one of the Fathers of the Internet, provides historical perspective on the development of the Internet for the Technology Policy Institute.
At the heart of the debate over the FCC’s…

Bob Kahn on the Future of the Internet
By Hatti Hamlin
Marconi Fellow Bob Kahn is Luncheon Speaker at a TPI event at the National Press Club. He has been active around the world. He and Marconi Fellow Marty Cooper went to Geneva to be honored on the 150th anniversary of the…

The Value of an Online Computer Science Degree
By Hatti Hamlin
First Georgia Tech Graduates Intend to Prove Value of Online Computer Science Degree
Marconi Board Member Zvi Galil is changing the face of online learning. 2,789 students are enrolled in Tech’s Online Master’s. The…

Claude Shannon Documentary Coming from IEEE
By Hatti Hamlin
Communications Theory pioneer Claude Shannon won the first Marconi Society Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000. 2016 is Shannon's centennial year and the IEEE Information Theory Society is producing a TV documentary on his…

Samueli: As Moore's Law Slows, We Can't Waste Transistors and Must Be More Creative
2012 Marconi Fellow Henry Samueli told the NY Times “It’s graying, it’s aging, ,,, It’s not dead, but you’re going to have to sign Moore’s Law up for AARP.” He added, "Humans will just have to get more creative."
I asked him,…

Bob Metcalfe Tweets Marconi Young Scholar's Amazing GPS
2003 Marconi Fellow Bob Metcalfe is enthusiastic about Ken Pesyna's centimeter-accurate GPS. From Bob, the inventor of Ethernet,
"Crazy accurate GPS on your next smartphone? @CockrellSchool engineers are on it" (tweet)
The work of Pesnya…

Vint Cerf Explains Project to Stem "Bit Rot"
By Hatti Hamlin
"Your digital images, videos and documents may rot away if you can no longer run the application software that helped you create them."
Vint Cerf worries about a digital Dark Age.
Interviewed by NPR host Bob Garfield…