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 ...

(13 pages) 594 2 4.4 May/1993

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 ...

(4 pages) 59 0 4.0 Oct/1996

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 ...

(3 pages) 64 0 3.0 Mar/1997

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 ...

(7 pages) 173 0 3.0 Dec/1996

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 ...

(8 pages) 321 0 4.3 Nov/1996

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 ...

(2 pages) 179 2 4.6 Dec/2002

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 ...

(23 pages) 109 0 2.0 Feb/2004

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 ...

(6 pages) 138 0 5.0 Mar/2004

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 ...

(9 pages) 38 0 4.3 Apr/2004

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 ...

(7 pages) 225 0 5.0 Apr/2004

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 ...

(5 pages) 166 0 4.0 Jun/2004

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 ...

(4 pages) 45 0 5.0 Dec/2004

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 ...

(28 pages) 329 0 3.3 Feb/2005

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 ...

(15 pages) 243 0 4.7 Jun/2005

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 ...

(5 pages) 66 0 5.0 Sep/2005

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 ...

(26 pages) 308 2 3.7 Jun/2006

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 ...

(2 pages) 50 0 4.3 Apr/2001

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 ...

(2 pages) 9 0 0.0 Feb/2008

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 ...

(3 pages) 80 0 0.0 Feb/2008

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 ...

(3 pages) 12 0 3.7 Sep/2009

Subjects: Science Essays > Technology