It was a thrill to attend UCLA’s Internet 50th Anniversary celebration commemorating the first message sent over the Arpanet from UCLA to Stanford on October 29, 1969. Above is UCLA’s highlight reel and below is a link to Professor Kleinrock’s compelling op-ed – “50 years ago, I helped invent the internet. How did it go…
World Wide Web founder Tim Berners-Lee and his World Wide Web Foundation are using the 30th birthday of the web to not only celebrate this milestone but also to create a live crowd-sourced history of the web and to call for a New Contract for the Web. The Web’s 30th Birthday Party Berners-Lee will mark…
Yesterday I attended UCLA’s celebration of Internet Day 2016 featuring Professor Leonard Kleinrock recounting the birth of the internet at UCLA on October 29, 1969 and a screening of the Wernor Herzog documentary “Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World.” Below is a video of Professor Kleinrock’s presentation and partial Q&A. The documentary features…
DOC Releases Digital Valedictory The Department of Commerce has released a report “Enabling Growth and Innovation in the Digital Economy,” which it describes as a chronicle of the Commerce Department’s efforts in support of the digital economy over the course of the Obama Administration in areas of a free and open internet, privacy and intellectual property. The report…
ITU Battle, NSA Debacle Spur Review of Internet Governance The bruising 2012 ITU battle in which Russia and other authoritarian states sought to use the ITU to exert more control over the internet and continued fallout from the NSA disclosures have led to the creation of a commission to consider internet governance. The Global Commission…
Cyber Report 