Essays Tagged: "ARPA"
The Internet
o start a new department within the Department of Defense called Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). MIT President James A. Killian was the leading force behind ARPA.ARPA had made its main proje ... e the Internet or any type of Local Area Network (LAN) for that matter.Soon after another branch of ARPA was formed. The branch was called Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO). This branch ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking
The Internet, Past, Present, and Future
s installed in UCLA. By December 1969, there were four nodes on the infant network, which was named ARPANET, after its Pentagon sponsor. The four computers could transfer data on dedicated high-speed ... h-speed transmission lines. They could even be programmed remotely from the other nodes. Because of ARPANET, scientists and researchers could share one another's computer facilities by long-distance. ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking
The Internet has revolutionised the media: discuss.
thirteen years earlier. An immediate reaction was to set up the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) within the Ministry of Defence. It was created in order to reduce the chance of US defence aga ... n Licklider, who had just recently published a memorandum on the 'Galactic Network concept', headed ARPA's computer research. Whether the original motives for setting up 'ARPAnet' were lessening the p ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies
History of the Internet
the Cold War, President Eisenhower thought it wise to create the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) in 1958, to keep the United States at the forefront of technology. ARPA would soon begin the r ... rsation, even when they were silent.In 1963, JCR Licklider, head of the computer research effort at ARPA, expressed an idea of a network that would connect machines and people worldwide. In the mid-19 ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies
The Emergence of Digital Dilemna
e was a real war. In 1964 the Cold War was at its peak, the Advanced Researched Projects Agency, or ARPA began researching and developing a way to get computers to communicate with each other. The gov ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law
Outline The Social And Technological Development Of The Internet
nternet The Internet originated in the early 1970s as part of an Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) research project on "internetworking"�.In a well-known joint effort that took place aro ... rnetworking"�.In a well-known joint effort that took place around 1973, Robert Kahn, then at ARPA, and Vinton Cerf, then at Stanford, collaborated on the design of an internetwork architecture ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers
History of Telecommunication and Networking
ks of data to be sent to different computers without first passing through a centralized mainframe. ARPANET network emerged in 1969. This was a four-node network. It connected the University of Califo ... tanford Research Institute, the University of Utah and the University of California - Santa Barbara.ARPANET's development centred on the 'Request for Comment' (RFC) process and in 1969, RFC 1 was publ ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science
The internet
could the country communicate after anuclear war? The Pentagon's Advanced Research Projects Agency, ARPA, had asolution. They would create a non-centralized network that linked from city tocity, and b ... oyed. The network could not have a center because it would be aprimary target for enemies. In 1969, ARPANET was created, named after itsoriginal Pentagon sponsor. There were four supercomputer station ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays