The Conversation

How Britain got its first internet connection – by the late pioneer who made it happen

British computer scientist and Internet Hall of Fame inductee Peter Kirstein died in January 2020 at the age of 86, after a nearly 50-year career at UCL. A few years before he died, he was ...
Law

Nervous System: How Packet Data Built the Internet

"The pace of technological change is slower than it feels, and many seemingly new categories of threats have been with us longer than we remember," writes David Kalat of Berkeley Research Group. With ...
TechRepublic

Network Definition Made Simple: Here’s the Basics

Spoiler: there isn’t just one network definition. Learn everything you need to assess various network types, topologies, and architectures. The simple network definition: a system that links other ...
The New York Times

David J. Farber, ‘Grandfather of the Internet,’ Dies at 91

A researcher, professor and federal policy adviser, he guided students who went on to do groundbreaking work in connecting the world online. By Peter Wayner David J. Farber, a gregarious professor of ...