A history of international research networking: the people who made it happen
Davies, Howard
Bressan, Beatrice
The internet has, without doubt, changed the world more profoundly than any other technical development in the last decades. It originates from the needs of the scientific community to communicate large amounts of data in real time across incompatible computer networks on different locations. This book deals with the history of developing universal protocols and of building up the data transfer network not only in Europe but in the rest of the world as well. The contributors and editors are the very people who were responsible for the development of these networks. Extensively edited by Howard Davies, himself a former General Manager of DANTE, one of the main European networking organizationsand Beatrice Bressan, a longtime communication expert at the CERN and at other research institutions, the text is very uniform in style and level given thelarge number of contributors.
- ISBN: 978-3-527-32710-2
- Editorial: Wiley-VCH
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 342
- Fecha Publicación: 27/01/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés