New book on BBN posted online
Dear SIGCIS Friends, I'm delighted to report that CHM has obtained and placed online a copy of Dave Walden's excellent book "A Culture of Innovation: Insider Accounts of Computing and Life at BBN." We thank Dave Walden for granting us permission to make this available permanently via the CHM website. You may download the book here: http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/accession/102706168 Warm regards, Dag -- Dag Spicer | Senior Curator | Computer History Museum Editorial Board | Annals of the History of Computing 1401 N. Shoreline Blvd. | Mountain View CA 94043 Tel: +1 650 810 1035 | Fax: +1 650 810 1055 Twitter: @ComputerHistory FB: facebook.com/computerhistory Blog: http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/ "Only art and science give us hope of a higher life." -- Beethoven
Hi all -- how might I reach BBN's Ray Tomlinson? I wasn't able to find an email address on his homepage -- ironic considering the page is about his role in the development of email ....
dear all, some sad news from europe: hubert zimmermann died on november 9th from leukaemia. he joint the team of cyclades 1972, was member of IFIP WG 6.1 and chaired the OSI architecture committee, who defined the OSI reference model. he received the sigcomm award 1991. i had the chance to meet and talk with hubert zimmermann in july 2005. in memoriam, i did a short radio play, in which he tells how he came to networking in 1966, why he didn't leave paris in 1972, his time at ISO, and why a stronger support of the TCP/IP community at ISO might have made a difference in the late 1970s, early 1980s ... " what else do you want to know": http://nomatic.org/static/antville/audio/files/050714hubertzimmermann.mp3 all the best, mariann unterluggauer
Mariann - This is sad news indeed; thanks very much for sharing the interview. Andy On Nov 13, 2012, at 1:51 AM, mariann unterluggauer wrote:
dear all, some sad news from europe: hubert zimmermann died on november 9th from leukaemia. he joint the team of cyclades 1972, was member of IFIP WG 6.1 and chaired the OSI architecture committee, who defined the OSI reference model. he received the sigcomm award 1991.
i had the chance to meet and talk with hubert zimmermann in july 2005. in memoriam, i did a short radio play, in which he tells how he came to networking in 1966, why he didn't leave paris in 1972, his time at ISO, and why a stronger support of the TCP/IP community at ISO might have made a difference in the late 1970s, early 1980s ...
" what else do you want to know": http://nomatic.org/static/antville/audio/files/050714hubertzimmermann.mp3
all the best, mariann unterluggauer _______________________________________________ This email is relayed from members@sigcis.org, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. The list archives are at http://sigcis.org/pipermail/members/ and you can change your subscription options at http://sigcis.org/mailman/listinfo/members
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