INNOVATIONS CREATING INTERNET
and
CONVERGENCE

 

Who Innovated?

Who Paid?

Fourier Analysis,
Sampling Theory, 
FFT
Wavelets

1642, 1970

Fourier,
Nyquist
Tukey, 


Packet Protocol

1920

1962 

Mumbai Dubba Wallah lunch delivery systems 

Paul Baran: 

RAND

.
 

Air Forc

Memex;

Networks;  Symbiotic systems

Augmenting Human Intelligence

1945

1960

1963 

Vannevar Bush: MIT;
[Pierre Otlet, 1933]


JCR Licklider: MIT;
Man-Computer Symbiosis

March 1960;



Douglas Engelbart:
Stanford Research Institute


ARPA


Office of Naval Research

Army

Computer Aided Design: 
Bridges, Cars, Roads
Printed Circuit Boards
Chips 
Computer Graphics

1963

Student

Ivan Sutherland, Ph.D Thesis: Sketchpad, MIT

Office of Naval Research

Trajectory of transistors

1965

Gordon Moore

Intel

Window User Interface,
Mouse

1966

Douglas Englebart

Stanford Research Institute


Internet Protocol

1968



Students


Vint Cerf, Steve Crocker: [Stanford; UCLA]

Bob Kahn, MIT-BBN;

DARPA

Free Space Optical

1969

Bell Labs

Bell Labs

Distributed Systems

1969

Dave Farber,
George Coulouris, 
Leslie Lamport,
Butler Lampson

DARPA
ONR
Army Reseach

Relational Data Base

1969

IBM: Codd, Date
Students, Professors:
UC Berkeley: Ingres


Simulation of Integrated Circuits

1971

Students
SPICE: UC Berkeley 
Larry Nagel, Ron Rohrer

DARPA
NSF

Open Source Implementation: TCP/IP Networking Protocol
Berkeley Unix

1976

Student
Bill Joy, UCBerkeley

DARPA

Public Key Encryption

1976

Student
[Whitfield Diffie, Marty Hellman: Stanford, Berkeley]

NSF

Open Source Software:
4.1. bsd [Berkeley Software Distribution] UNIX

1978

BellLabs ->
Students 
Bill Joy, Sam Leffler,
Ozip Babaoglu 
UCBerkeley

DARPA

Ethernet Protocol

1978

~Students
David Boggs, Robert Metcalfe: Xerox Parc

NSF
Xerox
DEC
Intel

RISC Microprocessors

1980

IBM: John Cocke
Students,
Professors
UC Berkeley: David Ditzel, David Patterson; 
Stanford: John Hennessey

IBM
NSF
ARPA

Single Board Computer

1980

~Students
Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs: Apple II

Pocket,
Venture

Virtual Reality products for general public

1983

~Students
Jaron Lanier : VPL II

Pocket,
Venture

MPEG [4, Java] protocol

1987

Student
Ph.D thesis


Web Browser: Protocol

1991

Tim Berners-Lee
CERN: Geneva

CERN

Open Source Software:
GNU/Linux

1992

Students:
Richard Stallman, ~MIT
Andrew Tannenbaum, Netherlands
Linus Torvalds, Finland

Self

Web browser: Mosaic->Netscape

1993

Students
Marc Andreesen: U Illinois

NSF

Erbium-doped linear optical amplifier

1993

Industrial lab: Bell Labs

Manchester
Bell Labs
Corning Labs

Java: Portable Programs

1994

7 people [Bill Joy, James Gosling, Guy Steele, ]
Students:
ETH Zurich, Frieje Universitaat

Sun Labs

IBM Labs
HP Labs

Web index: Yahoo

1994

Students 
Jerry Yang: Stanford

Self
VC

IEEE 1394 protocols: Firewire

1996

Small group: 
Apple, Sony

Apple Labs

Molecular Electronics

1996

 Yale, UPennsylvania, Harvard, Stanford, DARPA

ARPA
NSF

XML:
Portable Data Description

1996

6 people: 
Jon Bozak: Sun,
Microsoft, Netscape, IBM..)

Sun
Microsoft
IBM

Arrival of cheap ubiquitous wireless Internet access

1996

DoCoMo i-mode

NTT

First use of Internet for mass grassroots organization

1996

NetDay
100, 000 parents, 4,000 schools, one day

Self

Biochips: DNA Array
Shotgun sequencing

1997

Small group
Craig Venter

TRW
Perkin-Elmer

Google, others:
search, proximity algorithms,

  pin-point advertising

1998

Students:
Larry Page, Sergei Brin

Self
Andy Bechtolsheim

Keyhole: 
dynamic interactive GIS and  remote imagery

2000

Sun, SGI

Self

First sub-$300 Internet terminal:

2000

Sony PlayStation 2; Nintendo, Sega


Peer-to-Peer Sharing: 
Napster, Gnutella,
Music without borders

JXTA
device-to-device distributed computing

2000

Students:
Sean Manning

Sun
Identity, grouping, security:
Li Gong

Self

 
Atomic manipulation:
massive data storage


2000

IBM, Cornell, Yale


Project Liberty :
Identity and Authentication protocols

2001

France Telecom, Nokia, Sony, Master Card, Visa, Amex, Citicorp, GE, GM, United Airlines


TeraGrid

Terabit network

2002

California Institute of Technology,
UC San Diego Supercomputer Center,



Terabit
Capacitive Chip Interconnect,
Asynchronous Supercomputer

2002


Ivan Sutherland,
Sun


Technologies of Convergence

Web Services

2002 eBay, Craig's List, Froogle, Linked-in,

Voice over IP: Free telephony,
Location-free radio

2002

Skype
  Students:
Estonia

Video over IP: Location-free television

2003

Sling

Open API for
10-centimeter mapping
2005 Google

Open cataloging
Metadata and tagging
2005 del.ico.us
flickr
faces
Machine-aided pattern recognition
Language translation
Arabic OCR
Music
Image classification
2000-2006 world-wide research institutes



Richard Feynman

The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
Chap 2: 

Computing Machines of the Future: 1985 Nishina Memorial Lecture

J.C.R. Licklider

1960:  Man-Machine Symbiosis

Douglas Englebart

1963:  Augmenting Human Intelligence

Kevin Lynch

1960:  The Image of the City

Stewart Brand

1980:  How Buildings Learn

Larry Lessig

2002:  The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World

US National Academy of Science

2002:  Embedded Everywhere

2002: Homeland Security

Markle Foundation

2002:  Protecting Americas Freedom in the Information Age

2003: December: Creating a Trusted Network for Homeland Security