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Network Trailblazers

A video series showcasing the tech luminaries who created the modern Internet network, and those who are taking it forward. Kirk Lougheed, who helped create Internetworking Operating System, and Vint Cerf, dubbed The Godfather of the Internet, are just two of the legends highlighted in this series.

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05/13/2013

Network Trailblazer: A Conversation With Chris Anderson, Co-Founder & CEO of 3D Robotics and Former Wired Magazine Editor

By Amy Cortese
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Network Trailblazer: A Conversation With Chris Anderson, Co-Founder & CEO of 3D Robotics and Former Wired Magazine Editor

05/13/2013 By Amy Cortese

As editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine for most of the 21st century, Chris Anderson has had a front row seat to the technological changes that continue to transform our world. He's explored some of these changes in his books, The Long Tail, about ... Continue Reading

Tags: Manufacturing, Network Trailblazers

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12/04/2012

Network Trailblazer: A Conversation With Martin Cooper, Father of the Mobile Phone

By Steve Wildstrom
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Network Trailblazer: A Conversation With Martin Cooper, Father of the Mobile Phone

12/04/2012 By Steve Wildstrom

On April 3, 1973, Martin Cooper made history when he made a phone call standing in front of the New York Hilton on Sixth Avenue to the head of research at Bell Labs at a press conference inside the hotel.  That first cell phone call set off a ... Continue Reading

Tags: Mobility, Network Trailblazers

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09/24/2012

Network Trailblazer: A Conversation With Larry Irving

By Steve Wildstrom
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Network Trailblazer: A Conversation With Larry Irving

09/24/2012 By Steve Wildstrom

When Larry Irving joined the Commerce Dept. in early 1993, most Americans were considering dial-up Internet access. Broadband access wasn't widely available. By the time he left his post as head of the National Telecommunications and ... Continue Reading

Tags: Government, Core Networks, Network Trailblazers

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09/10/2012

Network Trailblazers: A conversation with Irving Wladawsky-Berger

By Scott Gurvey
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Network Trailblazers: A conversation with Irving Wladawsky-Berger

09/10/2012 By Scott Gurvey

Most of our Network Trailblazers are men and women who created the technologies behind our connected world. Irving Wladawsky-Berger was on the other side of the equation. In December of 1995, just a few months after the Internet was opened to ... Continue Reading

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05/30/2012

Network Trailblazers: A Conversation with Van Jacobson

By Scott Gurvey
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Network Trailblazers: A Conversation with Van Jacobson

05/30/2012 By Scott Gurvey

We all know what happens if we pour water too quickly into a funnel. We quickly find ourselves on the floor with a roll of paper towels cleaning up the mess. This is the problem Van Jacobson helped solve in the late 1980s. Instead of water, ... Continue Reading

Tags: Core Networks, Network Trailblazers

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05/01/2012

Network Trailblazers: A Conversation with Luis Von Ahn

By Anne Field
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Network Trailblazers: A Conversation with Luis Von Ahn

05/01/2012 By Anne Field

You know those annoying stretched out words you need to type in order to get access to Ticketmaster, Yahoo, or dozens of other places? They're called CAPTCHAs and they were developed about 12 years ago by a then-22-year-old Carnegie Mellon ... Continue Reading

Tags: Innovation, Network Trailblazers

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04/12/2012

Network Trailblazers: A Conversation with Jennifer Rexford

By Scott Gurvey
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Network Trailblazers: A Conversation with Jennifer Rexford

04/12/2012 By Scott Gurvey

I am still cleaning up the damage done by a plumbing leak in my 80-year-old-house. This is one reason why I have a great deal of empathy for the work being done by Princeton University Computer Science Professor Jennifer Rexford . Rexford's ... Continue Reading

Tags: Education, Core Networks, Network Trailblazers

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02/13/2012

Network Trailblazers: A Conversation with John R. Patrick

By Steve Wildstrom
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Network Trailblazers: A Conversation with John R. Patrick

02/13/2012 By Steve Wildstrom

In the early 1990s, the Internet was just beginning to make the transition from academic plaything to global communications revolution. John R. Patrick, an IBM executive who had been responsible for marketing the OS/2 operating system and now was ... Continue Reading

Tags: Core Networks, Network Trailblazers

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01/03/2012

Network Trailblazers: A Conversation with Robert Metcalfe

By Scott Gurvey
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Network Trailblazers: A Conversation with Robert Metcalfe

01/03/2012 By Scott Gurvey

Return with me now to the thrilling days of yesteryear, 1973 to be precise. It wasn't exactly as if dinosaurs were roaming the streets. But in 1973 computers were, for most people, gigantic, mysterious and expensive animals that lived behind glass ... Continue Reading

Tags: Core Networks, Innovation, Network Trailblazers

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08/01/2011

Network Trailblazers: A Conversation With Robert E. Kahn

By Steve Wildstrom
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Network Trailblazers: A Conversation With Robert E. Kahn

08/01/2011 By Steve Wildstrom

  The Internet as we know it today was the work of a large number of people. But the single most important step in the process may well have been the collaboration between Robert E. Kahn and Vinton G. Cerf that produced the TCP/IP ... Continue Reading

Tags: Data Center, Data Center, Innovation, Healthcare, Network Trailblazers

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07/11/2011

Network Trailblazers “A Conversation with Vint Cerf,” Part 2

By Steve Wildstrom
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Network Trailblazers “A Conversation with Vint Cerf,” Part 2

07/11/2011 By Steve Wildstrom

Far too many people were involved in the creation and nurturing of the Internet for any one individual to claim credit for inventing it. But Vinton G. Cerf probably comes closest. He was involved in just about every major development in the ... Continue Reading

Tags: Core Networks, Innovation, Telecommunications/Service Providers, Network Trailblazers

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07/05/2011

Network Trailblazers "A Conversation with Vint Cerf," Part 1

By Steve Wildstrom
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Network Trailblazers "A Conversation with Vint Cerf," Part 1

07/05/2011 By Steve Wildstrom

Far too many people were involved in the creation and nurturing of the Internet for any one individual to claim credit for inventing it. But Vinton G. Cerf probably comes closest. He was involved in just about every major development in the ... Continue Reading

Tags: Core Networks, Innovation, Telecommunications/Service Providers, Network Trailblazers

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06/13/2011

Network Trailblazers: A Conversation with Kirk Lougheed

By Elizabeth Corcoran
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Network Trailblazers: A Conversation with Kirk Lougheed

06/13/2011 By Elizabeth Corcoran

The underpinnings of Cisco's products--and its corporate culture--were laid in 1984, in large part by founders Len Bosack and Sandy Lerner, and Kirk Lougheed, the company's first engineer, who today is a Cisco Fellow. As part of Stanford ... Continue Reading

Tags: Core Networks, Technologies, Routing, Switching, Innovation, Software, Video, Vertical Markets, Large Enterprise, Small and Medium Businesses, Network Trailblazers

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