14 news & feature articles results for "arpanet infrastructure"

One would expect the man known as the "father of the Internet" to resemble an aged Fred McMurray--retired, nostalgic, and wrapped in a cardigan. But nearly 30 years after joining the team of engineers that erected ARPANET, the Department of Defense-sponsored predecessor to the Internet, Vinton G. Cerf is still very much on the job.

Posted by Nick Wingfield

U.S., Israel, Russia, China, and France are gearing up for cyberoffensives, according to a new McAfee report.

Posted by Elinor Mills

The Net has crushed geographic barriers and withstood extraordinary growing pains. But the human race has work to do adapting to its creation.

Posted by Stephen Shankland

Electric car-charging start-up Better Place is coming to California, as Bay Area leaders launch plans to accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles.

Posted by Elsa Wenzel

Forget Internet2. The National LambdaRail is the most ambitious network research project going.

Posted by Marguerite Reardon

Lawrence Roberts invented packet networking. Now he's is trying to fix one of its biggest problems: network overload caused by peer-to-peer file transfers.

Posted by Rafe Needleman

Former networking pioneer BBN is fighting for its survival in the middle of a tug-of-war among federal regulators, Bell Atlantic, and GTE.

Posted by John Borland

Larry Roberts was in on the birth of the Internet. Now his new company is offering a tune-up for today's traffic.

Posted by Elinor Mills

As the Internet faces a potentially crippling shortage of addresses, attempts to find a solution are running into roadblocks.

Posted by Dan Goodin