Keith Uncapher leaves Rand Corp. to establish
ISI at USC.
ISI designs series of interfaces for Internet predecessor ARPAnet;
first public ARPAnet demonstration at International Conference on Computer
Communications.
ARPAnet is used by researchers as a high-speed post office, not just the decentralized,
defense-specific network envisioned by DARPA.
Internet address registry created; later becomes Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), which
administers IP addresses and other critical Net functions. Maintained by ISI’s Jonathan Postel.
ISI develops micro-programmable emulation engine in first adaptive computing system. |
