Yesterday's Tomorrow

07/24/1993 - Stuart Vance

Carl Malamud interviews L. Stuart Vance, a veteran in the war of

bringing TCP/IP protocol stacks into alien territory. Vance discusses

the concept of encapsulation and explains how his company uses

encapsulation as a technique for building DECnet tunnels through the

Internet and how they build TCP/IP protocol stacks on VMS platforms.

Stuart Vance is well known for some of the most creative ways of using

protocols that may appear at first glance to be somewhat limited. In

this interview, Vance discusses how to run IP over E-mail, his efforts

to build large-scale networks in a few hours for INTEROP, and how all

this relates to our ability to make toast from remote locations.

March, 1995

Transaction Records in Interactive Services:

Who Watches the Servers?

The advent of interactive capabilities in home entertainment, telecommunications, and online services gives new importance to concerns about the privacy of the transaction records generated by these services. This session will explore the issues raised by the collection of personal information in these new interactive services, followed by a debate on the various strategies proposed for protecting the privacy of electronic transaction records.

March, 1995

A Net for All: Where are the Minorities?

We examine the degree to which minority groups participate on the net,

ways in which they are (inadvertantly) excluded, and techniques for

increasing their participation. We also discuss characteristics of

the net that encourage broad participation. Finally, we ask to what

extent class is relevant to participation or non-participation on

the net. (58:32) Chair - Barbara Simons, USACM / Introductions by

Deborah Runkle from the American Assn. for the Advancement of

Science.

02/19/1995 - Info-Surfing the Libraries of Tomorrow

04/24/1993

Dr. Gunn interviews Dr. T.J. RODGERS, President and CEO, Cypress Semiconductor Corporation on his testimony before Congress opposing the Clinton/Gore technology initiative. On March 25, 1993, Dr. Rodgers presented his own testimony and the written statements of 10 other Silicon Valley CEOs and businessmen, expressing grave convern about the Technology Initiative. Moira met with him in his offices in San Jose, California.

An editorial outlining Dr. Rodgers' position was published in the Monday, April 12th edition of the Wall Street Journal. Copies of the Technology Initiative may be obtained by calling the White House Office of Science and Technology at (202) 456-7116 or by writing to the Office of Science and Technology Policy, the Executive Office of the President, Room 424, the Old Executive Office Building, Washington, D.C., 20500.

07/01/1993 - Rob Blokzijl

Carl Malamud interviews Rob Blokzijl, network manager for NIKHEF, the

Dutch Insitute of High Energy Physics. NIKHEF has been one of the key

sites for networking in Europe and Bockzijl has been the force behind

that presence. During the darkest years of OSI hysteria, NIKHEF

helped the lead the move to install and operate real networks around

Europe. NIKHEF, geographically and spiritually colocated with CWI,

the mathematics institute, has helped make Kruislaan 409 in Amsterdam

one of the key hubs in European networking.

In this interview, we learn about the birth of RIPE, the IP users

group for Europe. We also hear about what it was like to try and put

networks together in an era of massive centrally planned information

policies and functionally obese networking protocols.

02/19/1995 - Copywrite in the Electronic Age

04/19/1993

Dr. Gunn interviews Dr. TONY MONTGOMERY, Director of Research and Technology Applications at the Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory. Dr. Montgomery describes how the Super Collider will work on its dual track which is 54 miles in circumference. He also discusses the costs, the involvement of the international community, what can be expected from the Super Collider, and the contribution to science education in the United States.

In our second half, Dr. Gunn interviews JOHN MC INTYRE, an architecture manager with the INTEL Corporation on their new Pentium processor chip. McIntyre reviews the progression of the chip family, the new internal architectures which makes this new processor family so powerful and the difference this new chip will make in the market.

06/26/1993 - Peter Deutsch

Carl Malamud interviews Peter Deutsch, President of Bunyip Information

Services and the first man known to break the speed of sound while

talking. Deutsch was one of the co-developers of Archie, a service

that scans anonymous FTP sites and maintains distributed databases.

Archie allows users on the Internet to locate copies of files they

are looking for.

Peter Deutsch talks about his philosophy for services and compares

Archie to X.500. Deutsch has been instrumental in the IETF working

group looking to salvage what remains of the whois service and deploy

a white pages service called whois++. Deutsch discusses the current

status of whois++ and what kind of standards body it takes to design

and deploy new things on the Internet.

02/19/1995 - Future Media: More Buck for the Bang