Essays Tagged: "National Science Foundation"
History of the Internet
but history has proven that most of them were reasonablycorrect. Although the Organization for International Standardization(ISO) was spending years designing the ultimate standard for computernetwork ... would benefit.One of the most important of these newer networks was the NSFNET,commissioned by the National Science Foundation (NSF), an agency ofthe U.S. government. In the late 80's the NSF created ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking
The Inter(esting)net
computer networking system that could withstand an attack such as a nuclear war. In the 1980's, the National Science Foundation built five Superconductor Computer Centers to give several universities ... access to high powered computers formerly available to only the United State's military (Krol). The National Science Foundation then built its own network chaining more universities together. Later, t ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking
How the internet got started
NET, too was a curiosity for a while. Then computer networkingbecame an utter necessity.In 1984 the National Science Foundation got into theact,through its office ofAdvanced Scientific Computing.The n ... s,upgraded andexpanded,again and again,in l986,l988,l990.And other government agencies leaptin:NASA,National Institutes of Health,Department of Energy,each of them maintaining adigitl satrapy in the I ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking
The Internet, a worldwide connection
all parts of the branching complex networks, which soon came to be called the Internet.In 1985, the National Science Foundation (NSF) began a program to establish Internet access centered on its six p ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking
Internet, an enormous impact on the American experience
ed by the Pentagon in the late 1969 as a network for academic and defense researchers. In 1983, the National Science Foundation took over the management of the Internet. Now the Internet is growing fa ... cquire, it becomes clear how essential the Internet can be to global understanding. IRC gained international fame during the late Persian Gulf War, where updates from around the world came across the ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking
What Exactly Is The Internet?
aring information. This was thanks to the CSNET (Computer Science Network) project conducted by the National Science Foundation (NSF).The NSF saw the great strides that were being made in computer sci ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science
An Informal Setting Experience: A Visit to the Zoological Gardens
hat it should support situations in which learning is voluntary and self-directed. According to the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), "informal science education should complement, supplem ... and to other non-science areas. In a report evaluating the role of informal science education, the National Science Foundation (NSF) estimated that 92.9% of people with science-related careers had vi ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
Genetic Engineering
Human genetic engineering has the key to ending international conflict and suffering. With the ability to genetically enhance the minds of the future gen ... ollars are no longer prohibited from going to projects using aborted tissue.A poll was taken by the National Science Foundation in 2001 about genetic testing. The poll asked approximately eight hundre ... Genetic engineering scientists were able to come up with this drug because of strong support of the national government (Gillis).Gene therapy is being used, experimentally, to treat cancer. Most of th ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Genetics & Genome Projects
The Cold War and the National Science Foundation
p between these three groups. This point can best be explained by the impact of the creation of the National Science Foundation after the war.During World War II, scientists who could have been teachi ... sic research2.Dr. Bush's 184-page proposal would be to set up what would eventually be known as the National Science Foundation (NSF). This foundation would be created to in order to give new momentum ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics
The Future of the Internet - Topic Analysis
ernet2 organization has three primary goals: 1. To create a leading edge network capability for the national research community. 2. To enable revolutionary Internet applications. And 3. To ensure the ... federal agencies are working along with the Internet2 organization. Some of these agencies are: the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, the National Aeronautics and Space Administra ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers
The Internet Defined
MilNet consists of only traffic to and from military sites and other government locations vital for national defence. The National Science Foundation (NSF) took over ARPAnet and merged it into a high- ... ARPAnet and merged it into a high-speed network called NSFnet.The NSFnet was the prototype for the national Internet backbones that we have today. It provided high-speed links among scientists and su ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking
Network Topology and City Accessibility of the Commercial Internet
ria. The Internet was originally designed to connect researchers at several national supercomputers and provide a fast medium to share information. The original project was nam ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking
Ecommerce
(TCP) and Internet Protocol (IP) as the protocol suite TCP/IP still widely used today.In 1986, the National Science Foundation (NSF) set up 5 supercomputer centers and connected them using specially ... ee things happened to cause this explosive growth.1. The World Wide Web was developed in 19912. The National Science Foundation agrees opens the Internet to commerce in 1991.3. Web browsers were intro ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science
Ecommerce and Developing Nations
ss in order to take full advantage of the opportunities that e-commerce provides.I look at the international implications of e-commerce, both in developed and developing countries. The impact that e-c ... ing large structures including skyscrapersSteamboats - revolutionized water transportation and international tradeAirplanes - revolutionized transportationTelephone - revolutionized the speed of commu ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers
Hiatory of the internet.
otocols developed: Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and Internet Protocol (IP).In 1986, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) initiated the development of the NSFNET which, today, provides a m ... the NSFNET carries on the order of 12 billion packets per month between the networks it links. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the U.S. Department of Energy contributed a ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking
Ecommerce
(TCP) and Internet Protocol (IP) as the protocol suite TCP/IP still widely used today.In 1986, the National Science Foundation (NSF) set up 5 supercomputer centers and connected them using specially ... ee things happened to cause this explosive growth.1. The World Wide Web was developed in 19912. The National Science Foundation agrees opens the Internet to commerce in 1991.3. Web browsers were intro ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking
Admissions Essay
about time management and dedication.My rewards along the way have included a scholarship from the National Science Foundation, Architectural Department recognition as Outstanding Student, Second Pla ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers
A Journey to the Center of the Earth
In this most recent news article readers are informed of what the National Science Foundation calls the third deepest plunge into the Earth. In which scientist said t ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science
Immigration
milies and themselves. We all want more. It is human nature. Estimates based on Census data, national surveys, administrative data and other sources indicate that the current [2/2007] illegal p ... the current [2/2007] illegal population is between 7 million and 20 million. In 1997 a study by the National Science Foundation found that illegal aliens cost tax-payers an average of $4,867 per alien ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
History of the Internet
he needs of the military, the Department of Defense continued to endorse both networks. In 1985 The National Science Foundation began setting up its T1 lines which would take 3 years to finish. Shortl ... a implemented a hypertext system to provide efficient information access to the members of the international high-energy physics community. Two years later in 1993, Marc Andreessen and NCSA and the Un ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Technology