NSFNET 35th Anniversary

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1	Surname	Given Name	Recent Photo	1985 Photo	About Me	My Reminisces	Photos/Scans of Memorabilia
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4	Adrion	Rick			I rejoined NSF in 1980 to direct the Coordinated Experimental Research program in the Computer Science Section, which included the CSNET program led by Bill Kern. When Bill left NSF, I assumed the mangement of CSNET including it's transfer to UCAR. In 1984, I also joined the Office Advanced Scientific Computing as the Networking Program director. During this period we developed the initial ideas for Sciencenet that became NSFNET. I continued to manage both the OASC netorking and CS CSNET programs while on leave at UCBerkeley. When I returned in 1985, Dennis Jennings had assumed the mangement of NSFNET and I became the Chief Scientist for CISE as it was being developed by Gordon Bell. Decided to return to academia in 1986, but served on several NSF, CSNET, IAB, and Internet2 boards and committee.	x
5	Almes	Guy			Beginning in 1986, while teaching Computer Science at Rice University, I founded Sesquinet, an NSFnet related regional network for Texas. The initial members were Rice, the Baylor College of Medicine, the University of Houston, Texas Southern University, the Houston Area Research Center, and Texas A&M University. Rice/Sesquinet hosted one of the T1 NSFnet backbone nodes. Participated with other regional networks in FARnet, including serving as Chair for a couple of years. In mid-1991, joined ANS as it was building the T3-based backbone (hard) and working through the transition of the Internet to mixed RE-and-commercial use (harder). From early 1997 until 2006, served as Chief Engineer of Internet2, including working with the regional gigaPoPs, organizing several member-driven working groups, and helping lead the Abeline backbone project. Between 2004 and 2006, was "on loan" to NSF's Cyberinfrastructure division/office, working mostly on its Teragrid program. Between 2006 and 2016, worked at Texas A&M University on campus-level HPC, including contributing to Science DMZ ideas.
6	An	Jennifer
7	Andres	Yvonne Marie			(1984) Formed Free Educational Mail (FrEdMail) Network, providing free international email access and curriculum services to over 150 schools and school districts; (1988) Authored “TeleSensations: The Educators Handbook to Instructional TeleComputing” containing classroom activities and instructions on how to use modems on Apple II computers with primitive BBS systems; (1991) NSF grant to design gateway between FrEdMail and the expanding NSFNet; (1992) Authored "CERF'n Safari: An Educators' Guide to the Internet," the first teacher's Internet guide; (1992) NSF grant to demonstrate CU-SeeMe video conferencing to support a multi-media, globally collaborative online learning community called "Global Schoolhouse"; (1995) Facilitated the FIRST live stream of internet video on network TV (ABC World News Now). So, take that Zoomers. https://www.linkedin.com/in/yvonneandres/	I remember needing to have a business card with multiple email accounts because sending email across networks (Minitel, Compuserve, The Source, McGraw Hill Information Exchange, Prodigy, etc.) wasn't possible; (1985) I remember writing a grant to get a $2,500 fax machine so my students could have a remote audience for their writing and for two years the only place I could send faxes to was the fax company; (1991) I remember explaining to a UCSD Supercomputer Center scientist how to reboot an Apple IIe so we could maintain our gateway between FrEdMail and the NSFNet; I remember demonstrating CU-SeeMe video conferencing to the world in 1993 with Al Gore and Vint Cerf for Earth Day; (1994) I remember my middle school students demonstrating CU-SeeMe to: John Morgridge at Interop '94; Bill Gates; Surgeon General, Dr. C Everett Koop; Senator Diane Fienstein: Prince Charles; Dr. Jane Goodall, etc.; (1996) I remember working with Susan Estrada, Tracy LeQuay Parker, Vint Cerf, Carl Malaud, Steve Wolf, Steve Goldstein, Don Mitchell -- to launch the first virtual world's fair (International CyberFair); 2021 will be our 26th year running this program; I remember by 1995 FrEdMail had over 350 nodes with a total of 12,000 participating schools and on December 31,1999 the last FrEdMail server was taken offline because it was not Y2K compliant. But, that was okay because the internet was blossoming and booming.
8	Aronson	Cathy			I live in Jackson, WY. I have a digital printing business and also dabble in some networking things from time to time.	Worked at Merit on the NSFNET starting in the summer of 1988. I built CICNet while I was at Merit. Went on to work at ESNet and BARRNet and was an early at @Home Network. I was elected to the ARIN Advisory Council in 1998 and served until the end of 2016. I am currently the chair of the board of Industry Network Technology Council. I am on the board of Honoring Our Veterans, honorvets.org, a non-profit here in Jackson that works with combat wounded veterans. Working with combat wounded veterans has been an experience of a lifetime.
9	Barnhart	Liz
10	Belson	David		That would be my 7th grade photo - not sure where that would be. :)	First used the Internet in 1990 at Stevens Institute of Technology, which was connected to JVNCnet, IIRC. After Stevens, had the opportunity to work at BBN with a number of great folks listed here. And as an avid fan of Internet history, if you've written about it, I've probably read it. Also thankful to have met some of you through my activities at BBN, Akamai, Oracle, or the Internet Society.
11	Bjerring	Andy
12	Blatecky	Alan			I am currently a Visiting Fellow at RTI International (an independent nonprofit research institute dedicated to improving the human condition) with a focus on high performance computing, complex data ecosystems, and AI. I retired from NSF and the Renaissance Computing Institute in 2014. Career highlights; • Established the Research Data Alliance (RDA) with European Science Commission, NIST, and the Australia National Data Service in 2012; RDA now has more than 11,000 members in 145 countries. • Served as Director of the NSF Office of Cyberinfrastructure (2009-2014) • Co-founded the Renaissance Computing Institute at UNC with Dan Reed • Executive Director Research and Programs, San Diego Supercomputing Center • VP Information Technology at MCNC; designed, established, and operated the North Carolina Education and Research Network from 1983 to 2001 - (MCNC/NCREN currently owns and operates more than 4,000 miles of fiber-optic infrastructure providing internet services to all 100 counties, schools, universities and hospitals in North Carolina)	The other thing I remembered, is that we used to literally count the number of computers connected and would publish new numbers each quarter. However, that quickly became meaningless when campuses began to widely deploy computers
13	Bottum	Jim
14	Bradner	Scott			I'm retired - doing some consulting & building of ship models
15	Braun	Hans-Werner
16	Breeden	Laura
17	Brim	Scott		There were cameras back then?	I'm retired, which means busier than ever -- or perhaps things just take more time than they used to. Mostly I provide technical help and website development to good organizations that don't have much money. I'm also cutting brush, playing squash, and engaging in political action.
18	Brown	Alison
19	Burns	Pat		Unavailable, but I was much younger and more handsome then!	42 years at Colorado State University, the first 20 as faculty in the Mech. Engr. Depr (Westnet/nsfnet period), and the last twelve as VP for IT and Dean of Libraries, now half-time at the CSU System Office for two more years. Taught HPC courses over three decades.	The first time I saw a URL on a grocery store bag, and on a milk carton, I knew networkign was something far beyond what we ever anticipated. Also, how fiber has now become "king" in our domains, providing the greatly needed expanded capacities. Upon cessation of funding from NSF for networking, Westnet gave the networks to the six participating states, and that worked very well.
20	Burr	Becky
21	Bush	Randy			just an old geek trying to stay under the radar
22	Cady	Glee
23	Carpenter	Brian
24	Carrick	Kieran			Worked with Dennis, Niall O'Reilly and Michael Walsh at University College Dublin in 1980s and became the tech rep for EARN. Thanks to my late friend Odd Jorgensen I went on to work at Digital Equipment and then later Oracle In 2002 I met Marc Beniof & joined Salesforce and was part of the team that started their EMEA business. Recently sold my salesforce partner business to Infosys	Seeing a demonstration of Tim Berners Lees teams work at a networking conference in Salzburg and being fascinated by the technology and then walked away thinking what a shame all this work we do in the Acadmeic world never seems to go commercial - The following year Netscape happened :-)
25	Carter	Nancy
26	Case	Jeff			Formerly administrator at the University of Tennessee. We were joined to the NSFnet via the SURAnet regional network. Co-creator of SGMP and SNMP, Chuck Davin (Proteon/MIT), Mark Fedor (Cornell/NYSERnet) and Marty Schoffstal (RPI/NYSERnet); and related management standards along with the late Keith McCloghrie(Hughes/Cisco), Marshall Rose (MTR), and Steve Waldbusser (CMU). Served on a number of NSF committees and in a variety of roles within the IETF. Founder of the SNMP Research companies -- first license was to IBM (Barry Appleman and Jordan Becker) for use in monitoring the routers forming the NSFnet backbone after the fuzzballs. Our business began by creating, licensing, and supporting source code for internet management. Slow learner. Still doing the same thing after more than 30 years.	There was a meeting of the regional operators held at Ithica, NY, hosted by Cornell University. I am not sure when it was ... it was early -- sometime in the late 1980s. Representatives of almost all of the regional operators were there: NYSERnet was the host, my team was from SURAnet, and others in attendance included BARRnet, JvNCnet, MidNet, Sesquinet, etc. ..., I should dig out the attendance list, but I haven't. Please send it to me if you have one. NYSERnet and SURAnet were rivals as to who had bragging rights as to the first operational regional network. As I recall, NYSERnet had the first node up but SURAnet had the first pair of nodes communicating. The people from NYSERnet and SURAnet simultaneously had both a friendly competition with one another, as well as strong cooperation and collaboration. (Don't tell Jennings -- he'll just get even more proud.) Both the NYSERnet and SURAnet regional networks were based on Proteon boxes. In the early days, the Proteon boxes were primarily monitorable via telnet to a console command inferface only. The gang of four (Case, Davin, Fedor, Schoffstall) had designed and implemented SGMP, the Simple Gateway Monitoring Protocol, (routers were called gateways in those days -- due to Cerf, Pouzin, et. al. Catenet Model) but Proteon did not (yet) support SGMP (this was before SNMP). Although co-author/co-editor/co-architect Davin worked for Proteon, SGMP wasn't in any production release of the Proteon software. At that time, Protoen was taking a wait-and-see attitude with respect to the upcoming management protocol wars, i.e., SGMP/SNMP vs HEMS/HEMP vs CMIP/CMOT). Accordingly, the Proteon boxes did not (as yet at that time) support SGMP. The IBM PC XT was still new, as was the color enhanced graphics adapter EGA with 640x480 pixels of resolution. I had written a user interface for the PC, with a geographically meaningful map of the states for SURA and for New York, with nodes and links shown with green = good, red = bad, grey = unknown, etc. But, we didn't have an agent in the Proteon box, so my graduate student (Ken Key) and I wrote a proxy that ran on a VAX in Knoxville. Down on the farm, we have a saying: Necessity is the mother of invention. The PC acting as a Network Operations Center (NOC) at the regional meeting in Ithica would send an SGMP get the VAX in Knoxville, which would do a RIPv1 query of the respective router, make inferences from the RIP response, and return an SGMP repsonse to be displayed by the projector at the regional workshop. Ugly. And Flakey. But it worked. Kinda, sort of. I'd been up all night developing and tweaking because the Cornell network had much more broadcast traffic than I was used to at home in Knoxville, and my monitoring station was having trouble keeping up. I thought I had the problem solved, but during the demo (don't we all love demos?), a large percentage of NYSERnet went red while it was being projected on the screen, and everything behind those nodes went grey. I began apologizing because it seemed like the NMS was malfunctioning like it had the night before. Mark Fedor (Cornell, NYSERnet, SGMP and Gated coauthor) sat at a VT100 on the front row of the conference room and started typing. The more he typed, the more ashen grey he became. He said to me: "Stop apologizing, Jeff. What we are seeing is real." About five minutes later, pagers started going off all over the room. As it turned out, a backhoe digging near Columbia University had taken out a bundle of cables and killed a number of purportedly independent circuits with one swipe. We took a break so people could answer their pages (this was long before smartphones). As we were exiting the room for the break, someone from the RFC Editor's office, either Jon Postel, or Bob Braden, not sure, I think it was Bob, stopped me and said, "Your demonstration just changed history." Serendipity. The "short-term interim standard" [RFC1052] is still king of the hill after multiple versions and all these years. Who would have thought it possible?
27	Caviness	Jane
28	Cerf	Vint			since 2005, VP and Chief Internet Evangelist at Google. Prior work: MCI/Worldcom, CNRI, DARPA, Stanford. Former chair of ICANN, ARIN, IAB, first president of the Internet Society, co-inventor of TCP/IP with Robert Kahn. Former member National Science Board, current member of CISE/AC. Visiting Scientist at JPL since 1998. Member of NASA Science Advisory Committee, Visiting Committee for Advanced Technology at NIST. Chairman of the Marconi Society and Innovation for Jobs.	1982 getting CSNET to adopt TCP/IP; 1985 Fuzzball network by Dave Mills; the FRICC; the battle between TCP/IP and OSI and Library of Congress vilification of Dennis Jannings!
29	Chapin	Lyman
30	Chen	Enke			I started my career at Merit and worked on the NSFNET project from 1992 - 1994. Then I worked at MCI, Cisco, Redback, Cisco, Palo Alto Networks in the areas network enginnering, protocol development and network platforms. Currently I am a senior distinguished engineer at Palo Alto Networks.
31	Chon	Kilnam
32	Ciment	Mel
33	Claffy	Kim
34	Clark	Dave		Still looking...	I have been at MIT since I got my PhD there in 1973. Very short resume. I have been working on one or another aspect of the Internet and its future for my whole career. I am still working, and I hope I can keep it up until we get it right...	I remember...- when someone said we could never write a TCP spec precise enough that two independent implementations would actually interoperate. - the bakeoffs where we alternately debugged the spec and our code until we had them right. - when someone said that we could never write a gateway spec precise enough to build an Internet out of gateways from multiple vendors. - when Vint more or less said "Hell no". - when 100 people showed up for a network working group meeting and we realized we had a success disaster and needed working groups. - wonderful evenings in distant places after a good days work:- drinking beer at Andechs Monastery after a day at DFVLR. There was something about a network build out of sausage... - going for beer after a day at RSRE. One of the local lads wanted to check off an obscure beer from his CAMRA beer-spotting list and I had the car. I did not realize he wanted to drive into Wales. On the way back, one of the crew who had consumed a large amount of beer asked if we could stop so he could step behind a bush. He failed to notice that the ground sloped off rather sharply right there. After a puzzling delay while he climbed back up the hill, the group wanted one more beer, so we went to a pub in Malvern, where a fearsome lady pulled a large crate of rutabagas from under the pool table and asked how many raffle tickets I wanted. - when an SNA person from IBM shook my hand and said: "You win." - when a PoliSci grad student called to ask how the Internet group was doing with it plan to overthrow the government. He had heard that I gave a talk where I said that: "We reject kings, presidents and voting." He could have been pulling my leg, but I don't think so. Rather shot down his planned PhD. - the day when I realized that the technologists were no longer in charge of the future. (But I have described that moment elsewhere...)
35	Collet	Bob
36	Comer	Doug
37	Conklin	Jim
38	Connolly	John
39	Crocker	Dave			Arpanet R&D in the 70s and early 80s; Internet products in latter 80s; consulting ever since. Initial co-PI at U Delaware for CSNet. Developed and ran MMDF dial-up network for it. Networking standards work through almost all of that, mostly for email.	MMDF included an MSG user client emulation. Email content could be included with ^B, which made it easy to add a document to a message. Got a CSNet client call about mail not getting picked up and discovered hours of retries at sending a 1MB file. They had a 30baud dialup. (The phone-based email protocol didn't have checkpoint/restart. sigh.)
40	Crocker	Steve
41	de Laat	Cees			Was IRTF co-chair of the AAA-Architecture research group from 1998 - 2002, (rfc 2903-2907), later in the grid forum steering group GFSG. Introduced NOMCOM alike processes there. Currently at University of Amsterdam we develop the Amsterdam Data Exchange (AMdex) for secure and souvereign data sharing. See https://delaat.net/	The roaring twenties and the internet & current transformation. Currently working on Amsterdam Data Exchange. Used to work on AAA, lambda network etc.
42	DeFanti	Tom			I am currently a research scientist at UC San Diego, involved in several NSF-funded networking and cyberinfrastructure grants. I am profiled in Wikipedia, at http://www.evl.uic.edu/tom/, and http://www.calit2.net/people/staff_detail.php?id=67	Working with Joe Mambretti, Maxine Brown, and Larry Smarr to link the world through STAR TAP and StarLight has kept me very busy for more than 25 years; participating in GLIF for almost two decades was wonderful too. In parallel, developing CAVEs with Dan Sandin and Greg Dawe as walk-in virtual reality theaters has been very rewarding.
43	Demco	John			1979-2007: University of British Columbia (UBC); 1987: .ca domain delegation from IANA/Jon Postel; 1988: Internet connection UBC-UWashington (BCNET-NorthwestNet) which grew into one of three CA*net-NSFNET links; 2000-present: Webnames.ca.	Invited by Larry Landweber to the 1984-88 International Academic NetWorkshops in Paris, Stockholm, Dublin, Princeton, and Jerusalem. Local host for the first IETF meeting held outside of the US at UBC Vancouver in 1990.
44	Denning	Peter
45	Dooley	Barbara
46	Edmiston	Dick			Was general manager of CSNET, and supervising manager of NEARNET and NNSC (NSFnet Network Services Center) at BBN; VP of R&D at Earthlink. Currently retired and not worrying about if the network is up!	Learning about network viruses the hard way, with the November 2, 1998 release of the Morris Worm.
47	Epstein	Jeremy J
48	Estrada	Susan
49	Estrin	Deborah
50	Farber	David
51	Fidler	Brad
52	Fisher	Darleen
53	Fratkin	Sue			I was the Washington Liaison for the Coalition of Academic Supercomputing Centers,(CASC) from it's inception in1989 till I retired in 2016.
54	Freytag	Asmus
55	Fuchs	Ira
56	Gage	John
57	Gale	Henrietta			I'm flattered that the "Internet folks" still consider me as a part of the "group". Looking forward to the 35th Anniversary ceebrations of the NSFNET this year. Thanks for including me.	The picture is in 2015 - at our 50th Anniversary - just 3 months before Doug passed. He would be so happy that folks are continuing his "hobby project" of collecting oral histories and documents of the Internet development.
58	Gerbode	Farrell
59	Gerich	Elise			Joined Merit in 1987 as a Site Liaison working with the Regional Networks to connect them to the T1 NSFNET Backbone. Led the Regional-techs meetings which evolved into NANOG (co-founded with Mark Knopper). Represented the NSFNET on the FEPG and IEPG, and was appointed to the IAB. Left the R&E networking world for awhile, and then came back to lead the IANA Functions at ICANN. Have played a role in two major transitions - one from the NSF sponsored national internet backbone to the commercial internet, and the other from the US government oversight of the IANA to the multistakeholder, global Internet community.	The photo with bumper cars was a "social" at a Regional Techs meeting in Ann Arbor. We would play whirly ball - a game with bumper cars, hai-lai racquets, and a basketball backboard. Great fun and very competitive. This gave me the idea to host a "social" at the 1988 IETF meeting in Ann Arbor. We arranged for an evening tour of the NSFNET NOC for the IETF attendees. To my knowledge, that was the first IETF social.
60	Getschko	Demi			Demi Getschko, Brazilian Network Information Center (NIC.br), Getschko, CEO Brazilian Network Information Center (NIC.br), has been a member of the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee (CGI.br) since its creation in 1995 and has served as administrative contact for the ccTLD .br since 1989. From 1972 through 1986, Getschko held a variety of positions at the University of São Paulo, from student to faculty and IT professional. He was the manager of the Fapesp Data Center, a state foundation that played a central role in Brazilian academic networking, from 1986 through 1996. Technology director at Agencia Estado from 1996 to 2000. In 2000 and 2001 he served iG (Internet Group), as CTO. He holds BSc, MSc and PhD degrees in Electronic Engineering from the University of São Paulo, Brazil. Currently he is Associate Professor in Computing Architecture at Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo.
61	Greenberg	Sue
62	Gross	Phil
63	Grossman	Gary			For the last 20 years, just a retired country gentleman in rural Virginia. Sporadically playing with development of my own private OS toy. Contact: grg144@freeneck.net	Was involved in protocol design and specification for the ARPANET and built the software for the first minicomputer (PDP11/20!) host, ANTS, on that network. Participated in the design and implementation of the ARPANET software for UNIX. Had peripheral involvement in the early design and specification of TCP/IP. (MIGHT be remembered by Vint Cerf et al.) Was a member of INWG and represented IFIP to a series of meetings at the ITU.Caught security and died; i.e., led project to develop a secure network front end for WWMCCS host, led projects to develop and present for evaluation a TCSEC B1 Unix, and C2 Novell Netware. Thereby became a "security expert" and consulted on OS security for a number of computer product vendors. Most (not vey!) recently, headed security research at a major network hosting company.
64	Hain	Tony
65	Hall	Joseph
66	Hares	Susan
67	Hearn	Tony
68	Heker	Sergio
69	Hirsh	Rich
70	Honig	Jeffrey	#REF!	#REF!	Maintaner of Gated routing daemon.	Coined the phrase "DMZ network"
71	Hu	Daoyuan
72	Huitema	Christian			I left Microsoft 4 years ago, and am now "almost retired", although still spending a lot of time working with the IETF on privacy initiatives, and also on QUIC. Contact: huitema@huitema.net	Setting up the connection between INRIA and NSFNET, with the support of Larry Landweber and the help of Hans-Werner Braun and Steve Wolff
73	Huizer	Erik			I am currently CEO at GÉANT after several years as CTO at SURFnet. Before that I was Managing Director Information Society at the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO). I served as Area Director for the Applications area of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and as such a member of the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). I also served as a member of the Internet Architecture Board. I was chairman of the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF). I was an ISOC BoT trustee for many years. I served on the Board of PIR for 7 years.	My very first IETF. Checking in at the hotel, run into Vint for first time at the reception desk, getting invited to dinner by him, getting in a cab with Vint, Steve Crocker, Bob Braden and John Postel. The rest is history.
74	Hunsinger	Ana
75	Husse	Tracci
76	Huston	Priscilla
77	Huston	Geoff			Chief Scientist at APNIC, the Regional Internet Registry for the Asia Pacific region, currently operating a large scale measurement platform delving into the behaviours of the deployed network. Previously I worked in Telstra, an Australian telco where I led the effort to turn a small research networking platform into a national service. I had previously built this small research platform as Australia's national academic and research network in 1989.	I was living on planes as I flew around the country, meeting with all the campuses trying to put it all together and then the airline pilots went out on a protracted national strike and at the time there was no internet and no zoom to come to the rescue! That made it all the harder!
78	Huter	Steven G			https://nsrc.org/bios/SteveHuter.html
79	Irving	Larry
80	Jennings	Dennis			1st Program Director for Networking at the NSF. 'Retired' from University College Dublin in 1999. Now work as non-Exec Director on some commercial boards and charities, and as an early stage investor. Spend quite a bit of time as Chairman of the Governing Body of the Royal Irish Academy of Music. (The second photo is from a long long time ago!). See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Jennings_(Internet_pioneer)	Would love to talk about the Fuzzball decision to anyone who may be interested. Two pieces of Memorabilia: The 1st is the Conceptual Model of the NSFNET presented to the January 1985 meeting of the NSF's Science Board. The second is the sketch I made to reflect the design of the NSFNET [interim] Backbone network as agreed at NSF's Supercomputer Center Directors' meeting in Boulder Colorado on 17 September 1985.
81	Johnson	Mark				During the NSFnet formative years I was a young CS grad supporting systems at Georgia Tech. I did the first installation of BSD 4.2 and put together the first IP network on campus. I also supported our dialup connection to CSnet. I was very aware of the work Dennis Jennings and the others were doing and spent my time trying to put it into practice and evangelizing the value of the Internet. Later I worked for Alan Blatecky at MCNC and helped form The Quilt which is the modern version of FARnet. At MCNC we also did early work on interactive video conferencing over IP which seems relevant now :)
82	Kahn	Bob			Started the Internet Program at DARPA and co-invented the original Internet Protofols with Vint Cerf. Was a faculty member at MIT; then on-leave was responsible for the system design of the ARPANET while at BBN.
83	Kalil	Thomas
84	Karin	Sid
85	Karrenberg	Daniel
86	Katz	Randy			In 1985, I was a newly tenured professor at Berkeley, having come back to Berkeley after a couple of years at Wisconsin. At UWisc all of the discussion was about BitNet and Larry Landweber's efforts to advocate for national scale networking access for the non-DARPA community. I hadn't quite understood how fortunate I was to have been "on the ARPAnet" in the late 70s as Berkeley piggy-backed on LBNL's connection and Berkeley UNIX took off. 38 years on the faculty at Berkeley (1983-today), and currently the Vice Chancellor for Research. To this day I am trying to remember when and to whom I had sent my first "Internet" email (1978?), undoubtedly to another grad student friend somewhere at another university.	My recollection: During 1993-94, I took a leave of absence to work at DARPA CSTO as a program manager, and of course this was a critical time for the government to transition NSFnet to commercial reality (April 1995). I was fortunate to be part of the team that brought the "Internet" to the White House and set up email accounts for the president and vice president. See Katz, Randy H. "Professor Katz goes to Washington." Communications of the ACM, vol. 39, no. 5, May 1996. A great opportunity to work collaboratively across the Federal Agencies as part of the High Performance Computing and Communications program -- particularly NSF, DOE, NIH, NSA, NIST, NASA, NOAA, EPA, etc.
87	King	Ken			In 1985 I was Vice Provost for Information Technology at Cornell and Director of the Cornell National Super Computer Center. I attended the Networking meeting called by Dennis Jennings at NCAR in 1985 with Ken Wilson, Nobel Prize winner and Director of the Theory Center at Cornell, his wife Alison Brown, and Bill Schrader, Director of Administrative Services at the Theory Center.	My recollection: At the meeting of Supercomputer Center Directors convened by Dennis Jennings in Boulder, sitting around a picnic table, Dennis and the Directors designed a 3 level network; a backbone connecting the supercomputer centers, regional networks connecting Universities to the backbone and local University networks connecting users to the network. At this meeting Dennis said that he was committing $250K in order to order the 56 kilobit lines connecting the Supercomputer Centers to form the backbone. He said that he didn’t have permission to commit this money but he thought it would be wiser and faster in this case to ask for forgiveness rather than permission. Cornell agreed to submit a proposal to the NSF for money to fund the backbone and on the strength of Dennis’s word Bill Schrader from Cornell ordered the lines that day. Dennis offered Bill a dime to make the call to AT&T from a pay phone to order the lines.Thus NSF net was started and the Internet was launched.
88	Kleinrock	Len
89	Klensin	John
90	Klingenstein	Ken			Worked on Westnet and Colorado Supernet (which evolved into Qwest networking.) At Colorado, the first campus network to connect to NSFnet, via JvNC. Sat on and then chaired the Federal Networking Council Advisory Committee. Part of the FARnet regional networking crowd. Did a lot of K-12 and community networking with the Boulder Valley School District. Now doing middleware work and federated identity stuff, trying to apply the lessons we learned at the network layer to the identity layer.
91	Knopper	Mark			Manager of Internet Engineering Group at Merit Network. Attempted to herd engineers at Merit, IBM, MCI, ANS etc. to make T3 NSFNET stop crashing. Started NANOG group, met great people. Later sold small company IENG to Cisco and built giant routers with BGP.
92	Konishi	Kazunori
93	Krol	Ed			I was a geek at the U of Il who did a bit of everything. When NCSA was formed I was tasked to get it connected to the ARPAnet. In the process Dennis asked if I would take on the project to build the 56 KB original NSFnet testbed. This led to the hitchikers guide, the books, the films...	Having a bakeoff for 56kb router (non-existant at the time) BBN came with their $200k node. Bill Joy flew in with a prototype Sun workstation (sort of functional). Proteon product on the drawing board but vaporware. One of the "judges" was Dave Mills and at the end of the day when we had no solution, he said I have this PDP11 in my lab running my Fuzzball software which does everything we need. And the rest was history. A couple of months later we were having a deployment meeting in the Bay Area when Dave Farber came to the meeting and said I had coffee with Len Boszak and he's starting a company called Cisco which is going to build exactly what we need.....
94	Kummerfeld	Bob
95	Landweber	Larry			In 1979 convened group that led to the proposal/funding for CSNET. Co-led CSNET development. 1984-1989 organized International Academic Networkshops that brought together network pioneers from around the world. Worked with CSNET BBN CIC and Dave Farber on first non DoD supported international connections to CSNET/ARPANET. Joined ISOC Board on its founding and served as Chair/ President following Vint Cerf. Conceived and organizied the INET conferrences which helped spread the Internet beyond academia and to many parts of the world. Served on Internet2 Board.. Led UW component of Gigabit Testbed Project.	I served on NSF advisory committees from the planning of a network to connect the supercomputer centers through the first and second NSFNET backbones. The opportunity to work with Dennis Jennings and Steve Wolff who chaired the backbone committees was fantastic.
96	LaQuey Parker	Tracy			My first introduction to the Internet and the NSFNET was in 1988 was my job as a Network Information Specialist at the University of Texas at Austin Computation Center, working on the campus network (UTnet) and the statewide mid-level network, the Texas Higher Education Network (THEnet) which connected to the NSFNET backbone via Sesquinet. I represented THEnet in the Federation of American Research Networks (FARNET) and at IETF meetings. I also wrote/compiled/edited the “User’s Directory of Computer Networks,” which included information on academic/research networks internationally, including the NSFNET and all the mid-level networks. This directory is considered a snapshot historical record of the NSFNET when it was published in 1990. I also wrote the first trade book about the Internet, “The Internet Companion,” which was published in 1992 with a foreword by then Senator Al Gore. At the beginning of 1993 went to work for Cisco Systems in the Chief Technology Office heading up Education Market Development and during that time I worked with higher education and K-12 internationally, demonstrating how the Internet could be used in education. During this time Steve Wolff and I also founded Advanced Internet Initiatives in the CTO office. My LinkedIn page is https://www.linkedin.com/in/tracylaqueyparker/. tracylaqueyparker@gmail.com	I worked all the time, pulled many all-nighters, made great friends, traveled the world. It was an incredible time in my life and I'm so glad I was involved during this period of amazing growth. I have lots of stories, don't know where to start!
97	Lauck	Tony
98	Lax	Peter
99	Levine	Mike
100	Lombardo	Irene