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INTERNETWORKING AND THE POLITICS OF SCIENCE:
NSFNET IN INTERNET HISTORY
Juan D. Rogers
School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology, ATLANTA, GA 30332-0345
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APPENDIX II: A TIME LINE
EDUCOM summer session on networking for science in Colorado.
1968 NSF’s Office of Computing Activities established regional centers program
First ARPANET IMP installed at UCLA
NSF’s Office of Computing Activities began support for networking research
EDUCOM/NSF Workshop on national science networks
Demonstration of ARPANET at ICCC conference
EDUNET implemented as a network facilitator
First CSNET meeting at the University of Wisconsin organized by L. Landweber
1981 First link established in BITNET between CUNY and Yale
"Press Report" on the need for supercomputers in academic research
CSNET contract awarded by NSF
First of the international meetings ("Landweber meetings") organized by P. Kirstein
Report by the Lax panel on Large Scale Computing
Bardon/Curtis Report on the National Computing Environment for Academic Research
MILNET split off ARPANET. TCP/IP replaces NCP as the operating protocol
US House held two hearings on supercomputing and research
Landweber-Kahn agreement on mixed traffic on ARPANET links to CSNET
NSF established the Office of Advanced Scientific Computing headed by John Connolly
First foreign node on CSNET connected in Israel
NSF awarded grants for supercomputer centers
NCAR meeting of supercomputer center directors: NSFNET architecture established Congressional hearings on federal supercomputer programs: first articulation of computer networking for science as information highways
First NSFNET backbone in operation
Study on a National Research Network commissioned by an Al Gore ammednment to NSF FY87 budget authorization: information superhighway metaphor is launched
OSTP report "A Research and Development Strategy for High Performance Computing" signaled the direction toward NREN
New NSFNET backbone implemented by Merit, IBM and MCI
Gore sponsored congressional hearings on national networking begin
ARPANET is retired