Vint Cerf Visits Cuba
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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…
Ray Tomlinson
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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…
Marconi Fellow Len Kleinrock
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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;…
Marconi Fellow Bob Kahn
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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 Future of Internet
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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…
Value of an Online Computer Science Degree
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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
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…