Posted by Chris OBrien on September 23rd, 2009 at 6:00 am | Categorized as Innovation, O'Brien, Technology | Tagged as arpanet, Cisco Systems, computer history museum, Google, howard charney, ieee, lew terman, vint cerf
(l to r: Charney, Terman, Cerf)
Last week I spent an evening at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View attending the IEEE’s celebration of the 40th anniversary of ARPANET. The event featured a panel with three prominent names:
While delving into some of ARPANET’s history, the panel explored the future of the Internet. And I left with a few stray ideas worth noting:
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Posted by Chris OBrien on September 22nd, 2008 at 11:55 am | Categorized as Innovation, Legal | Tagged as Innovation, internet, onewebday, vint cerf
In case you forgot to mark your calendar, today is OneWebDay. That means today is the day we all do, um, something, or other. Okay, I’m not really sure.
I’ve had several folks ask me about OneWebDay. And I feel like it’s something that as a good citizen and a mediocre business columnist in Silicon Valley that I ought to know about. Certainly, all the cools kids seem to be talking about it today.
But I’m still trying to figure out what it’s all about, and what I’m supposed to do, or think about, or not do, as the case may be. So here is what I found. Read the rest of this entry »
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