Yesterday's Tomorrow

Yesterday's Tomorrow

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Yesterday's Tomorrow episodes

  • Geek of the Week - Brewster Kahle
    04/27/1993 - Brewster Kahle
    You might know Brewster Kahle as the founder of the Internet
    Archive. However this interview took place long before that
    came into existance. Nevertheless you can find seeds of the
    Archive in this episode.
    Carl Malamud interviews Brewster Kahle, the father of WAIS and the
    founder and president of WAIS, Inc. Brewster was a member of the AI
    Lab at MIT and went on to be one of the original researchers at
    Thinking Machines. In this interview, he discusses his vision of
    personal publishing, of a network of seamless libraries of
    information, and of his efforts to work with large and small
    information producers to get their data online. Brewster Kahle was
    recently named a member of the Internet Engineering Steering Group.
    Also in this episode of Geek of the Week is the Incidental Tourist,
    featuring ways to achieve gastronomic heights in the basements of
    Asian department stores.
    30 min
  • Geek of the Week - Milo Medin
    05/07/1993 - Milo Medin
    You might know Brewster Kahle as the founder of the Internet
    Archive. However this interview took place long before that
    came into existance. Nevertheless you can find seeds of the
    Archive in this episode.
    Carl Malamud interviews Milo Medin, one of the instrumental figures
    in the NASA Science Internet (NSI). Join the world of the routing
    fanatics as Milo explains the acronym-intensive world of NAPs, GIXs,
    and FIXs. Milo also discusses the role of the Appropriate Use Policy
    in his network, why ATM is useful but also needs to be combined with
    an internetworking protocol, and how NASA combines its mission-
    oriented networking needs with general-purpose links for much of the
    Pacific.
    Also this week, Dr. Jeff Case *IS* Dr. SNMP. Down on the farm, he has
    a saying. In fact, you'll find that Dr. SNMP has a saying for most
    every situation.
    38 min
  • Geek of the Week - Glenn Kowack
    05/14/1993 - Glenn Kowack
    Carl Malamud interviews Glenn Kowack, Chief Executive of EUnet. Kowack
    is never at a loss for words on subjects ranging from the history of
    EUnet to the state of the Polish telephone system to the origins of
    modern Bulgarian networking. Learn how European networking has gone
    forward despite the significant obstacles posed by tariff and other
    PTT restrictions and by the ever-fading dream of a unified OSI
    protocol suite.
    Also this week, Dr. Jeff Case *IS* Dr. SNMP. Down on the farm, he has
    a saying. In fact, you'll find that Dr. SNMP has a saying for most
    every situation.
    37 min
  • Geek of the Week - Jeff Schiller
    05/20/1993 - Jeff Schiller
    Carl Malamud interviews Jeff Schiller, one of the Internet's leading
    security experts and the manager of MIT's campus network. Jeff talks
    about the deployment of PEM and a public key infrastructure and
    explains his philosophy of "very good security or no security."
    Schiller also talks about the difficulty of policing the Internet
    and discusses with Carl whether horses or computers are more useful
    to criminals.
    Also this week, Dr. Jeff Case *IS* Dr. SNMP. Down on the farm, he has
    a saying. In fact, you'll find that Dr. SNMP has a saying for most
    every situation.
    33 min
  • Geek of the Week - John Romkey
    05/29/1993 - John Romkey
    Carl Malamud interviews John Romkey, author of numerous protocol
    stacks and recently named to the cast of "IAB: The Next Generation."
    In this wide-ranging interview, Romkey talks about the role of
    security in the Internet, the PGP versus PEM controversy, and export
    control policies that leave RSA algorithms patented in the US but
    available for anonymous FTP in Finland. Romkey also discusses the
    role of SNMP in ToasterNet and we learn why his garage is full of
    burnt Eggos and how he incurred the wrath of the Waffle Union.
    In this week's Ask Dr. SNMP, Dr. Jeff Case lets loose on a Journalist
    from Jupiter (aren't they all) and his inane inquiries about the
    future of SNMP Version 3.
    This week, the Internet Multicasting Service is proud to present an
    exclusive interview with the author of the Generic Ultimate Protocol
    (GUP). GUP slices and dices at any layer of the protocol stack. This
    distinguished scientist, fearing the wrath of protocol designers
    around the world, has asked us to use a computer-synthesized version
    of his or her voice to protect his or her identity.
    47 min
  • Geek of the Week - Tim Berners-Lee
    10/27/1993 - Tim Berners-Lee
    Carl Malamud interviews Tim Berners-Lee, developer of the World Wide
    Web, one of the most innovative and exciting applications to be
    deployed on the Internet. Berners-Lee discusses how WWW makes use of
    SGML and hypertext to form a web of information that spans the globe.
    31 min

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