Computer Networks: The Heralds of Resource Sharing
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Computer Networks: The Heralds of Resource Sharing is a documentary film from 1972, produced by Steven King and directed/edited by Peter Chvany, about ARPANET
. It features many of the most important names in computer networking.
Speaking parts:
Non-speaking:
Unidentified:
ARPANET
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network , was the world's first operational packet switching network and the core network of a set that came to compose the global Internet...
. It features many of the most important names in computer networking.
Speaking parts:
- Fernando J. CorbatoFernando J. CorbatóFernando José "Corby" Corbató is a prominent American computer scientist, notable as a pioneer in the development of time-sharing operating systems....
(Corby), more links here: (voice 0:45-1:15, face 1:00-1:15, 15:10-15:40) Turing Award-winning implementer of multitasking operating systems. - J.C.R. Licklider: (1:00-1:40), and many times throughout the film
- Lawrence G. Roberts: (voice 1:40-2:25) SIGCOMM Award winner.
- Robert KahnBob KahnRobert Elliot Kahn is an American Internet pioneer, engineer and computer scientist, who, along with Vinton G. Cerf, invented the Transmission Control Protocol and the Internet Protocol , the fundamental communication protocols at the heart of the Internet.-Career:After receiving a B.E.E...
: (2:25-2:35, 3:15-6:25, 6:55-) Turing Award winner. - Frank Heart: (2:35-3:15, 6:25-6:55)
- William R. SutherlandBert SutherlandWilliam Robert "Bert" Sutherland , older brother of Ivan Sutherland, was the longtime manager of three prominent research labs, including Sun Microsystems Laboratories , the Systems Science Laboratory at Xerox PARC , and the Computer Science Division of Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Inc...
(Bert): (13:50-15:10) - Richard W. Watson: (17:34-18:30, 25:05-25:15) Dick is one of the key mass storage researchers of the last thirty years.
- John R. PastaJohn PastaJohn R. Pasta was a computer scientist who is remembered today for the Fermi–Pasta–Ulam experiment, a result much discussed among physicists and researchers in dynamical systems and chaos theory, and as the head of the department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at...
: (18:30-19:25) - Donald W. Davies: (19:25-21:55)
- George W. Mitchell: (21:55-24:05, voice only)
Non-speaking:
- Daniel L. MurphyDaniel Murphy (computer scientist)-Biography:Murphy attended MIT from 1961 and graduated in 1965.In 1962 he created of the text editor Text Editor and Corrector later implemented on most of the PDP computers....
: (Behind the titles, several other times, best about 15:44)
Unidentified:
- (8:27-8:32, with beard and glasses): previously misidentified as Jon PostelJon PostelJonathan Bruce Postel was an American computer scientist who made many significant contributions to the development of the Internet, particularly with respect to standards...