This was one of the best articles I've read lately, it's not filled with empty prose as is the style today, it's just filled with the history of a man who was one of several who founded the internet and no more.<p>I agree with him that we need to keep iterating the foundations of the internet and keep it open and protect against the corporate takeover. I'm not sure how best to do that so I guess all I can do is work on my small areas of influence at work and in my personal projects.
This guy invented the datagram?!<p>How in the world is this not recognized earlier? He got awarded in 2003, but that is still way too late.<p>I think we should have a list in which all stories of underdeserved computer scientists should be displayed. Alan Turing's example is a well-known one. I still can't believe how he was treated. But apparently he isn't the only example of being underdeserved.
A significantly underrated progenitor. Not always recognised, and certainly not reflected adequately in the official historia recited often by Americans.
The term 'fifth man', especially in a British publication, tends to suggest cold-war spying (Anthony Blunt was number 4. As it happens, he also received royal honors, in a time when his unmasking was a closely held secret within British intelligence.)
I found this article via Wikipedia as a result of wondering why unix shells are named so.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_(computing)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_(computing)</a>
There is the website <a href="http://www.pouzinsociety.org" rel="nofollow">http://www.pouzinsociety.org</a> that covers new network architectures, also John Day quoted in the article has written a good book about networking history and future paths in “patterns in network architecture”
unsurprisingly, he suffered politcal headwinds from the connection-oriented telco people. i wonder how visible that religious war is through the mists of time.<p>how much duplication of effort and fighting at cross purposes .. I guess up until the failure of ATM and eventual submission to voice over ip.<p>pretty sad how much effort was expended on things like gossip, and how many standards were warped in an attempt at reconciliation.