Agenda Introduction Internet History Internet

Transcript:Agenda Introduction Internet History Internet:
Agenda Introduction Internet History Internet Evolution Internet Pioneers Internet Growth – Sept. 1969 – Sept. 2013 Conclusion Introduction.. Who am I, and how did I get involved with the Internet? My involvement with networks started … When I was working at my M.Sc. thesis in Pavia in 1984. My supervisor advised me to follow a short course by a young American visiting professor with Turkish roots, Ozalp Babaoglu, who had contributed to the development of the Unix BSD 4.2 socket library. At the time being able to open a network connection programmatically was big news.. I proposed to Ozalp to translate some of his course notes into Italian and have them published on an Italian magazine, “Informatica Oggi” Learnt what an IP address was… Looking back.. Student (Comp. Engineering): 1979-84 Programmer/Consultant: 1985-1990 Wrote intro to socket programming in Italian : 1986 Doctoral student/postdoc: 1990-94 Wrote first Internet book in Italian (“Internet: Guida Pratica”): 1994 Started first Italian magazine on the Internet (“Internet News”): 1995-2000 Asst.Prof./Assoc. Prof/Prof.: 1996-now Chaired Internet startup for fiber cabling 2000-2006 Director of Univ. Milan Ph.D. program in Computer Science And much more … My involvement with network organizations … Founding member of ISOC Italian Chapter Three Cisco Academic Grants Two IETF Internet Drafts First coordinating editor of OASIS XACML Chair of the CEN/CENELEC Workshop on Cloud Security Standardization What Was the “Victorian Internet”? What Was the “Victorian Internet” The Telegraph Invented in the 1840s. Signals sent over wires that were established over vast distances Used extensively by the U.S. Government during the American Civil War, 1861 - 1865 Morse Code was dots and dashes, or short signals and long signals The electronic signal standard of +/- 15 v. is still used in network interface cards today. Famous Quote From Sir Isaac Newton “If I have been able to see farther than others, it was because I stood on the shoulders of giants.” What Is the Internet? A network of networks, joining many government, university and private computers together and providing an infrastructure for the use of E-mail, bulletin boards, file archives, hypertext documents, databases and other computational resources The vast collection of computer networks which form and act as a single huge network for transport of data and messages across distances which can be anywhere from the same office to anywhere in the world. Written by William F. Slater, III 1996 President of the Chicago Chapter