Where Wizards Stay Up Late by Katie Hafner

O元270089W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 91.88 Pages 322 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0743468376 OL981918M Openlibrary_subject long_now_manual_for_civilization Openlibrary_work Urn:lcp:wherewizardsstay00haf_vgj:epub:c88d1f05-29a8-432a-8b9f-68430c6a68df Extramarc University of Toronto Foldoutcount 0 Identifier wherewizardsstay00haf_vgj Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t73v0vr0g Isbn 0684812010ĩ6019535 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL981918M Openlibrary_edition (Aug.Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 17:28:05 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA1592322 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donor Also by Katie Hafner The House at the Bridge: A Story of Modern Germany Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier(with John Markoff) The Origins of. The book is excellent at enshrining little known but crucial scientist/administrators like Bob Taylor, Larry Roberts and Joseph Licklider, many of whom laid the groundwork for the computer science industry. And while the book attempts to debunk the conventional notion that ARPANET was devised primarily as a communications link that could survive nuclear war (essentially it was not), pioneer developers like Paul Baran (who, along, with British Scientist Donald Davies devised the Internet's innovative packet-switching message technology) recognized the importance of an indestructible message medium in an age edgy over the prospects of global nuclear destruction. The husband-and-wife writing team profile the computer engineering firm of Bolt Baranek and Newman, which produced the original prototypes for ARPANET, and they profile the men (there were virtually no women) and an alphabet soup of agencies, universities and software that made the Internet possible. computer resources at a time when computers were wildly expensive, room-sized bohemoths unable to communicate with any other. Originally funded during the Eisenhower administration by IPTO (Information Processing Techniques Office) within the Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), ARPANET, the Internet's predecessor, was devised as a way to share far-flung U.S. Hafner, coauthor of Cyberpunk, and Lyon, assistant to the president of the University of Texas, here unveil the Sputnik-era beginnings of the Internet, the groundbreaking scientific work that created it and the often eccentric, brilliant scientists and engineers responsible.

Where Wizards Stay Up Late by Katie Hafner