34 news & feature articles results for "arpanet researcher"

SRI International, a U.S. research company instrumental in the creation of the Net, is in talks that could lead to it opening a research and development facility in Taiwan.

Posted by Ed Frauenheim

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

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

Posted by Marguerite Reardon

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

Forty years ago, Doug Engelbart and fellow researchers at the Stanford Research Institute gave a demonstration in San Francisco that was a prescient vision of the future: it included a computer mouse, hypertext linking, real-time on-screen text editing, shared-screen teleconferencing, and other revolutionary ideas.

Posted by Scott Ard

Few have probably ever heard of it, but a broken-down van in California was a stepping stone on the road to the Internet as we know it.
Photos: Computer History Museum celebrates the 'Internet Van'

Posted by Erica Ogg

Microsoft is putting Office online. No time soon, but it will happen. Also Netflix will stream movies in HD. Not until mid-November. And only for Xbox Live paying members. But hey, why would we want to satisfy anyone now.

Posted by Tom Merritt

Brookings Institution fellow P.W. Singer warns that we need a plan for the robot war games many don't realize are already under way.

Posted by Candace Lombardi