Where Wizards Stay Up Late (38 page)

LOGO

London

London, University of

Imperial College of

loopback tests

Lord of the Rings,The
(Tolkien)

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Los Nettos

Lukasik, Stephen

Lynch, Dan

 

McCarthy, John

McCulloch, Walter

McElroy, Neil “Mac,”

McGill, Bill

MacKenzie, Kevin

McKenzie, Alex

McLuhan, Marshall

McNamara, Robert S.

McQuillan, John

magnetic tape

MAIL

MAILBOX

mailing lists, network

mainframes

Mammoth Cave

“Man-Computer Symbiosis” (Licklider)

Marill, Tom

Markey, Ed

Mark I

Maryland, University of

Massachusetts General Hospital

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

(MIT)

Acoustics Laboratory at

Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at

Compatible Time-Sharing System at

computer scientists and projects at

economics department of

IMP Number Six at

Laboratory for Computer Science at

Project MAC at

Research Laboratory of Electronics

at

see also
Lincoln Laboratory

master-slave communication

mathematics

MCI

MCI Mail

MEDLINE

Merrill, James

Message Services Group,
see
MsgGroup

Message Transmission Protocol,
see

RFC 680

MESSENGER

messenger systems

Metcalfe, Bob

MH (mail program)

microchips

Microsoft

Miller Analogies Test

MILNET

minicomputers

Ministry of Defense, British

Minsky, Marvin

Mirkwood Tales

MITRE Corporation

MLFL (mail program)

MM (mail program)

Mockapetris, Paul

modems

Monsanto Chemical Company

Morse code

Mosaic browser

mouse

point and click technique with

MS (mail program)

MSG (mail program)

MsgGroup (Message Group mailing

list)

Multics

Myer, Ted

 

NASA (National Aeronautics and

Space Administration)

Ames Research Center of

creation of

missile programs of

network of

Office of Advanced Research and

Technology at

space projects of

National Academy of Sciences

National Bureau of Standards

National Library of Medicine

National Physical Laboratory (NPL)

British

National Public Radio

National Science Board

National Science Foundation (NSF)

National Security Agency

Navy, U.S.

NEARnet

Netscape Web browser

Network Control Center (NCC)

Network Control Protocol (NCP)

Network Information Center (NIC)

network mail,
see
electronic mail

Network Measurement Center

network randoms

Network Working Group (NWG)

BBN input and

file-transfer protocol of

“glitch-cleaning committee” of

host-to-host protocol of

meetings and teleconferences of

protocol design philosophy of

Requests for Comments (RFCs) of

Telnet protocol of

New Frontier

Newman, Robert

Newsweek

Newton, Isaac

NewYork Times

night vision

Nixon, Richard

NLS (oNLine System)

NLS JOURNAL MAIL

noise

North American Aviation

North Carolina, University of

NSFNET

nuclear power:

ballistic missiles and

communications survivability

detecting tests of

German development of

NYSERNET (New York State Education

Research Network)

 

Olsen, Ken

computers developed by

On-Line Software International

oNLine System (NLS)

Open Systems Interconnection (OSI)

Ornstein, Severo

hardware effort directed by

Honeywell contracts of

synchronizer bugs papers of

oscilloscopes

OSI Reference Model

Otis Elevator

 

Pacific Bell

Packet Communications Incorporated

Papert, Seymour

paper tape

PARC Universal Packet (PUP)

PARRY

Partridge, Craig

passwords

PDP-1 computer

PDP-8 computer

PDP-10 computer

PDP-11 minicomputer

Pennsylvania, University of:

ENIAC project at

performing arts centers

personal computers

physics

pigeons

Pilot ACE computer

Pocket organizers

Pogran, Ken

political action groups

Postal Rate Commission

Postal Service, U.S. (USPS)

e-mail plan of

Postel, Jon

RFCs edited by

Pouzin, Louis

power plants

printers

Procter & Gamble (P&G)

Project Charles

Project MAC

“Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication

A” (Cerf and

Kahn)

psychoacoustics

psychology

psychometrics

Pullen, Mark

Purdue University

 

Quasar Industries

queueing theory

Q-32

 

radar

radio

network linkage by

RA
dio
D
etection
A
nd
R
anging

see
radar

RAND Corporation

Baran's network research at

communications division at

IMP Number Seven at

Raytheon

RCA

RD

Reader's Digest

Reagan, Ronald

real-time systems

Redstone Arsenal

Reid, Brian

Republican Party

RSEXEC (resource-sharing executive)

RFC (Request for Comments)

RFC

RFC

RFC

RFC

RFC

RFNM (Request for Next Message)

Rising, Hawley

Roberts, Eric

Roberts, Larry

at ARPA

background and education of

competitive bids sought by

design group assembled by

IMP requirements specified by

network design work of

personality and management style

of

public network demonstration set by

radio links idea of

“smart drugs” regimen of

TELENET appointment of

robotics

Rockwell International

Rosin, Robert

roulette

routers

Royal-McBee

Royal Typewriter Company

Ruina, Jack P.

 

SAGE (Semi-Automatic Ground Envi

ronment)

samizdat

SATNET

Scantlebury, Roger

Science Advisory Committee

Scientific Data Systems

SDC,
see
System Development

Corporation

SDS 940 computer

seismic information

semaphores

Senate, U.S.

SENDMSG

Sesostris I, King of Egypt

SF-Lovers

Shakespeare, William

Sigma-7 computer

IMP interface with

SiliconValley

simple mail transfer protocol (SMTP)

Skinner, B. F.

Sloan School of Management

smileys

Snuper Computer

sound localization

Southern California, University of, Information

Sciences Institute (ISI)

Soviet Union

perceived threat of nuclear attack

from

Sputnik
launched by

technological race between U.S. and

space exploration

Space Physics Analysis Network

(SPAN)

speech recognition

speed-reading

Sputnik,

Sputnik II,

Stanford Research Institute (SRI)

ARPA host site at

Network Information Center (NIC)

at

o
NL
ine System of

Stanford University

Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at

Business School of

Computer Science Department at

first network test at

Medical School of

Star Wars program

stationary communications satellites

Stefferud, Einar

store-and-forward network

Strategic Air Command

submarines

Sun (Stanford University Network)

Microsystems

SURAnet

Sussex University

Sutherland, Ivan

Swarthmore College

synchronizer bugs

System Development Corporation

(SDC)

 

TALK

tape recorders

Taylor, Bob

at ARPA

networking concept advanced by

TCP (Transmission-Control Protocol)

TCP/IP

telecommunications

British

history of

long distance

real-time systems of

survivability of

technology of

teleconferences

telegraphy

TELENET

telephone system

analog signals of

British

circuit switching mechanism of

computer network transmission

through

dedicated lines in

direct dialing in

line tests in

long-distance network of

service and equipment of

vulnerability of

see also
AT&T; Bell System

Teletype

Model