About
NB!! Internet father Vint Cerf will honour us with his presence!
This lecture:
How the protocol wars affected the email, probably the most popular application of the 1980ies. How the Multi-Purpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) introduced more than plaintext in email messages. And, last but not least, the Web at CERN during the first decade of its life. Please follow the links from https://indico.cern.ch/event/1052076/ and visit dozens of papers of the time period of this lecture.
This series:
After the ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) began in 1969, leading to the TCP/IP protocol development in the USA, a period of intense network competition began between continents and companies. It lasted for more than a decade and affected many protocols and applications. A number of EU-funded projects were born and have kept re-incarnating until today. How was email done in the early 1990's? When could we send photos by email for the first time? What was the first decade of the World Wide Web like? How did HEP move from mainframes to distributed computing? Which manufacturers have since dominated the landscape in the process towards today's computing cloud? In this series, we shall try to answer such questions, with contributions by some of the makers and leaders of this technology.
Speakers' bio:
Maria Dimou studied physics at the University of Athens. After five years of work with IBM, she joined the EU-funded research project on network technologies EUREKA COSINE, as member of the RARE (Réseaux Associés pour la Recherche Européenne) organisation, while studying computing at the University of Brussels (ULB). At CERN she was responsible for the email gateway configuration and contributed to the definition of X.500 directory protocols, network topology and web support. She participated in the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) project for 13 years. She chairs the CERN Academic Training Committee and leads the CERN-Solid collaboration..
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The talk
Credits and licence
- Institution
- CERN
- Department
- Academic Training Lecture Regular Programme,2021-2022
- Taught by
- Maria Dimou, Nathaniel Borenstein
- Year
- 2022
- Level
- Graduate
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Computer science, History
- Source
- CERN
- Licence
- CERN, as CERN states it. CERN's terms
- Attribution
- © CERN. CERN provides its audiovisual media free of charge for educational and informational use, credited to CERN; this lecture is shown in CERN's own player.
- Who can watch
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