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Circuits, Packets, and Protocols - Entrepreneurs and Computer Communications, 1968-1988 (Hardcover)
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Circuits, Packets, and Protocols - Entrepreneurs and Computer Communications, 1968-1988 (Hardcover)
Series: ACM Collection II
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As recently as 1968, computer scientists were uncertain how best to
interconnect even two computers. The notion that within a few
decades the challenge would be how to interconnect millions of
computers around the globe was too far-fetched to contemplate. Yet,
by 1988, that is precisely what was happening. The products and
devices developed in the intervening years-such as modems,
multiplexers, local area networks, and routers-became the linchpins
of the global digital society. How did such revolutionary
innovation occur? This book tells the story of the entrepreneurs
who were able to harness and join two factors: the energy of
computer science researchers supported by governments and
universities, and the tremendous commercial demand for
Internetworking computers. The centerpiece of this history comes
from unpublished interviews from the late 1980s with over 80
computing industry pioneers, including Paul Baran, J.C.R.
Licklider, Vint Cerf, Robert Kahn, Larry Roberts, and Robert
Metcalfe. These individuals give us unique insights into the
creation of multi-billion dollar markets for
computer-communications equipment, and they reveal how
entrepreneurs struggled with failure, uncertainty, and the limits
of knowledge.
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