Posted on 11/14/2002 9:13:19 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
Los Angeles, CA --
Computer scientist Keith Uncapher, 80, whose pioneering research and development work on computer networking helped lay the foundation for the Internet, died October 10 in Los Angeles from a heart attack.
Uncapher founded the Information Sciences Institute (ISI) at the University of Southern California School of Engineering in 1972 and served as its executive director until 1987. Under this leadership ISI researchers developed such key elements of the Internet as the "dot.com" domain name system and made major contributions to electronic mail and basic Internet protocols.
Uncapher persuaded both the government and the late dean of USC Engineering, Zohrab Kaprielian, to form a sophisticated university-based research agency and one month later ISI opened the offices it still occupies in Marina del Rey, California.
"Vietnam was winding down," Uncapher recalled in 1997. "ISI was designed to help rebuild the bridge between the Department of Defense and academia." ISI's packet switching research and development led first to the military's Arpanet, and then to the Internet itself. Under Uncapher, ISI grew from a staff of 3 to 240. It now has a staff of morre than 350.
At the time of his death, Uncapher was senior vice president of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives in Reston, VA, an organization he co-founded in 1986 with fellow Internet pioneers Dr. Robert E. Kahn and Dr. Vinton Cerf. There he was pursuing several technology initiatives, notabley one on micro electro mechanical systems. He was also Associate Dean for Information Sciences, Emeritus, at the USC School of Engineering. < snip >
Two comments:
1) Although the print edition of US-Tech is also published in electronic form, they did not choose to run this obituary on the Web. Neither did the USC website, which does not even have a section for obituaries of their notables. You'd think that someone would publish the obituary of and Internet pioneer on the Internet!
2)Al Gore's contribution (?) to the Internet is not mentioned anywhere in this whole article. < /sarcasm>
Hope someone finds this interesting.
How dare they edit out the name of the fellow who really started it all. And we know who that is, don't we? :o) fsf
Who's Al Gore?
I really have no idea.
I do recall, though, some guy by the name of Algore. This entity, Algore, was created as the result of some Algol programming application, perhaps near the time of the birth of the internet.
I'm always amazed to hear that people actually believe that Gore, a politician who never took a computer science class in his life, had a hand in INVENTING the internet.
I mean, how freaking stupid can one be?
Al Gore didn't invent the Internet, he was birthed by it!
It's all so clear to me now; robot/zomie like tendencies and all . . .
As was once said, never underestimate the stupidity of the American public.
Present company excepted, of course.
Actually, Algor is an Arabic scholar, inventor of the Algorithm
A tip o' the hat to a man who developed a system that has provided and great deal of information and endless entertainment to all of us.
Everyone should really click on fone's link to read more about this remarkable man. The scientific and engineering world is diminished by his passing. It is unfortunate that the real tribute to his life appears only on the Web site of the company where he was currently employed, despite his many achievements.
Sounds like a good plot for a sci-fi flick...
A tip o' the hat to a man who developed a system that has provided and great deal of information and endless entertainment to all of us.You kidding? A "great deal of information" ought be a bit stronger, me thinks, certainly stronger than "endless entertainment."
Nay. The internet has changed the world.
Prayers, reverance and a patriotic salute to an historical innovator. Have eternal fun, bud, tossing stories with Edison, Bell, Marconi, the Wrights, and all the greats who made a new world.
I concur, I took the time to read some articles about this man......A true pioneer of the this fantastic thing called the internet.
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