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On Dec 20 2017 the Internet Society New York Chapter(ISOC-NY)celebrated the 20th Anniversary of its formal affiliation to the global Internet Society. Speakers included original founders Wayne Spivak, Everett Cabajal, and Kathy Lee Zasloff, plus current officers Shuli Hallak (Executive Director), Joly MacFie (President). We also heard from Internet Hall of Famer Dave Farber about how the Internet Society itself got started, and an update on the NYC Meshfrom Brian Hall. A recording will be streamed tonight Tuesday December 26 2017 at 7pm EST (UTC-5). Sorry, no captions.
What: ISOC-NY TV Show – A History of the Internet – Dave Farber
Where: Manhattan Neighborhood Network
When: Wednesday Dec 13 2017 2pm-3pm EST | 1900-2000 UTC
Manhattan Cable: TWC 56 / 1996 | RCN 83 | FiOS 34
Webcast: http://www.mnn.org/live/2-lifestyle-channel
In the talk, Dave has difiiculty recalling names of the “kids in Boston’ who came up with TCP/IP for MSDOS. Googling reveals it was Command Technologies, led by Franco Vitaliano, in 1988.
On Saturday Nov 25 2017, at 10am the Internet Society New York Chapter (ISOC-NY), with the support of the CSNYC+CSTA NYC Meetup will host a Workshop: Internet History for CS Teachers. In CS education there is currently a lot of emphasis on coding. Our aim is to, via Internet History, promote a wider understanding of open network infrastructure, its past, its values, and its future. This workshop will be conducted by Reuben Loewy, developer of the the ‘Living Online‘ Internet Studies curriculum in Princeton NJ. Special guest keynote speaker will be Internet Hall of Fame Pioneer inductee Prof. David J. Farber. Video from the workshop will be ISOC-NY’s contribution to the global Internet Society Digital Schools Chapterthon 2017. Lunch will be provided.
On Thursday July 14 2016 the USA Internet Governance Forum (IGF-USA)will be held in Washington DC. Thought leaders from civil society, industry, academia, and government will meet in a multistakeholder effort to illuminate issues and cultivate constructive discussions about the future of the Internet. Speakers include: Catherine A. Novelli – Under Secretary of State & Senior Coordinator for International Information Technology Diplomacy; Lawrence E. Strickling – Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information and Administrator, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce; Ambassador Daniel A. Sepulveda – U.S. Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy, U.S. Department of State; Lee Rainie – Director of Internet, Science and Technology Research, Pew Research Center; and David Farber, Adjunct Professor of Internet Studies and Distinguished Career Professor of Computer Science and Public Policy, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University. The entire event, including three breakout tracks, will be webcast on the Internet Society Livestream Channels and Facebook Live. There will be live captions available.
On June 24 2015 the Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy hosted a symposium Completing the IP Transition: Confronting Technical Challenges and Maximizing Consumer Benefits. Given the premise that too little attention has been paid to either the underlying technical challenges or new consumer value of the the transition of today’s analog telephone network to the all-IP infrastructure of the Internet, participants considered the principle that reaching finish line requires policymakers and stakeholders to understand better the remaining engineering hurdles inherent in the on-going process, as well as the benefits that can be fully realized only with full implementation. The session comprised a keynote and two panels that explored these facets, technical and social. Video is below.
Keynote: Henning Schulzrinne, Professor, Columbia University and former Chief Technologist, Federal Communications Commission
Introduction: John Mayo, Professor of Economics, Business and Public Policy, Georgetown University and Executive Director, Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy
PANEL 1: Technical Challenges and How Best to Resolve Them
Speakers: Eric Burger, Research Professor of Computer Science, Georgetown University and Director, Security and Software Engineering Research Center at Georgetown University; David Farber, Adjunct Professor of Internet Studies, Carnegie Mellon University; Jon Peterson, Distinguished Fellow, Neustar; Don Parente, Director, Technology Strategy – Chief Architect, AT&T
PANEL 2: Opportunities for Enhanced Consumer Experience in an All-IP World
Speakers: Larry Downes, Project Director, Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy; Brian Fontes, CEO, National Emergency Number Association; Debra Berlyn, President, Consumer Policy Solutions; Patrick Brogan, Vice President of Industry Analysis, USTelecom; Eric Burger, Research Professor of Computer Science, Georgetown University and Director, Security and Software Engineering Research Center at Georgetown University; Dan Berninger, Founder, VCXC
Today Thursday June 11 2015 at 2:30pm EDT the Internet Societyand the National Museum of American History present The Internet Age – Founders to Future in Washington DC. This Global Innovation Summit will examine the people and events that led to the creation of the Internet. Prominent contributors to the rich history of the Internet will conduct a conversation about the diverse elements that contributed to the creation of innovations and inventions that led to the Internet Age. The Internet is among the most powerful and influential “inventions†ever created. But where did it come from? Who were the people who first imagined it, and what are the inventive technologies that enable the Internet to exist? The evolution of the Internet continues as new innovations propel this global network of networks into seemingly impossible realities. Please join the National Museum of American History, the Internet Society, Internet pioneers, and digital natives for a lively conversation about the continuum of the Internet, from how it was imagined to where the Internet is taking us in the future. PANEL:Vint Cerf, widely known as one of the “Fathers of the Internet,” is the co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet. He has served as vice president and chief Internet evangelist for Google since October 2005. Mr. Cerf was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2012. Mitchell Baker is Executive Chairwoman of the Mozilla Foundation and the leader of the Mozilla Project. She is responsible for organizing and motivating a massive, worldwide, collective of employees and volunteers who are breathing new life into the Internet with the Firefox Web browser and other products. Ms. Baker was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2012. David Farber played a key role in many systems that converged into today’s Internet. He is an Internet Hall of Fame inductee and the Alfred Fitler Moore Professor Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania and Adjunct Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Sebastian Thrun is a scientist, educator, researcher, inventor, and entrepreneur. Today, he is the founder and CEO of Udacity, a company dedicated to democratizing learning for everyone. Udacity has almost 4 million students in over 190 countries. The event will be webcast on the Smithsonian Ustream channel, relayed on the Internet Society Livestream Channel. An edited version will be repackaged for educational use by the museum’s Education Outreach team and ISOC.
I worked with Dr. David Farber-“Grandfather of the Internet” when he was on the faculty of the University of Delaware and I was the IBM Corp. Account Manager from 1981 to 1987. It was
the highlight of my 35 year career with “Big Blue” when it was “top of the charts”. JOE MELLOY
Today Thursday April 30 2015Tech Innovators – a civic initiative of Internet pioneers convened by VCXC founder Daniel Berninger – will celebrate the inaugural “Internet Independence Day” to mark the 20th anniversary of the commercialization of the Internet, following the decommissioning of the National Science Foundation’s NSFNET. The group has written to Congress requesting that April 30 be officially recognized as Internet Independence Day. Today’s inaugural event will include remarks by Bob Metcalfe, professor, University Texas; Bryan Martin, Chairman, 8×8; Charlie Giancarlo, senior advisor, Silver Lake; Dave Farber, professor emeritus CMU, board member, ISOC; George Gilder, author; Jeff Pulver, founder, Zula; John Gilmore, activist, co-founder EFF; John Perry Barlow, lyricist, co-founder EFF; Les Vadasz, former EVP, Intel; Mark Cuban, founder, AXS TV; Michael Robertson, founder, MP3.com; Ray Ozzie, founder, Talko; and Tim Draper, founder, Draper Fisher Jurvetson. It will webcast live on the Internet Society’s Livestream Channel.
Today Tuesday February 24 2015 the Georgetown University McDonough School of Business presents Rewriting the Communications Act: An Introductory Event. After more than a year of preparation, all eyes are on Capitol Hill in 2015 as Congress prepares to undertake one of its most important tasks affecting a significant part of the digital economy: rewriting the Communications Act of 1934. In keeping with the Center’s staying ahead of the issues at the nexus of business and public policy, the Center’s Evolution of Regulation and Innovation Project is pleased to announce the first of a series of convenings focused on eliciting the best ideas for how a new regime for the tech, media and broadband sectors should look. A panel of experts will address the technology, economic, political, and policy contexts of the current Congressional efforts, offer different perspectives that will identify common ground among parties that will be affected by a rewrite, explore areas of significant uncertainty, and elucidate the policy drivers that will shape the work ahead. Keynote address: David Farber, Distinguished Career Professor of Computer Science and Public Policy, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University. Panel: Larry Downes, Project Director, Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy Project on the Evolution of Regulation and Innovation; Peter Rysavy, President and Founder, Rysavy Research; Glenn Woroch, Adjunct Professor, University of California, Berkeley and Senior Policy Scholar, Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy; John W. Mayo, Professor of Business, Economics and Public Policy, Georgetown University and Executive Director, Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy;
Moderator: Carolyn Brandon, Senior Industry and Innovation Fellow, Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy. The event will be webcast live.
The Internet Hall of Fame is an annual awards program that was established in 2012 by the Internet Society to publicly recognize a distinguished and select group of leaders and luminaries who have made significant contributions to the development and advancement of the global open Internet. Today, August 3 2013 the 2013 Internet Hall of Fame inductees will be formally honored in a ceremony in Berlin, Germany. The event will be webcast live on the Internet Society Livestream Channel. It starts at noon NYC time.
Pioneers:
David Clark, David Farber, Howard Frank, Kanchana Kanchanasut, J.C.R. Licklider (posthumous), Bob Metcalfe, Jun Murai, Kees Neggers, Nii Narku Quaynor, Glenn Ricart, Robert Taylor, Stephen Wolff, Werner Zorn
Innovators:
Marc Andreessen, John Perry Barlow, Anne-Marie Eklund Löwinder, François Flückiger, Stephen Kent, Henning Schulzrinne, Richard Stallman, Aaron Swartz (posthumous), Jimmy Wales
Global Connectors:
Karen Banks, Gihan Dias, Anriette Esterhuysen, Steven Goldstein, Teus Hagen, Ida Holz, Qiheng Hu, Haruhisa Ishida (posthumous), Barry Leiner (posthumous), George Sadowsky
On November 18 2009 Professor David J. Farber, now an Internet Society Trustee, gave a talk – The Technical and Political Evolution of the Internet – in the University of Delaware’s ECE Distinguished Lecturers Series. Commencing with a “how did we get here?” potted history, and continuing to prognosticate where we might go next, it is an indispensable overview of the Internet’s development from one of its prime movers. Prof. Farber is known for his ‘Farberisms‘ – mangled metaphors that push his point home. Keep an ear out for those! Video / audio can be downloaded, and it has been posted to YouTube.
On November 25 2017 Professor David J. Farber presented the keynote talk at ISOC-NY’s Internet Society Chapterthon 2017 workshop Internet History for CS Teachers. His talk ‘A History of the Internet‘ is now available to educators everywhere. It will be webcast at 7pm EST (UTC-5) tonight Thursday December 28 2017 on the Internet Society Livestream Channel, with open captions.
JOE MELLOY is discussing. 
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