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Author Lebrument, Chantal

Title The Inventions of Louis Pouzin : One of the Fathers of the Internet / Chantal Lebrument, Fabien Soyez
Published Cham : Springer, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (173 pages)
Contents Intro -- Foreword -- Preface -- A Book for the Record -- Why Such a Book? -- Methodology -- Authors with Direct Access to Sources -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1: Louis Pouzin's Youth (1931-1952) -- 1.1 Childhood -- 1.2 High School Years in Ginette -- 1.3 The X Years -- 1.4 Military Service -- 2: Early Career (1952-1963) -- 2.1 From CIT to Bull -- 2.2 From Bull to MIT -- 3: The American Years (1963-1965) -- 3.1 Time Sharing -- 3.2 The Project MAC -- 3.3 The Birth of Shell Multics -- 4: Back to France (1966-1971) -- 4.1 An Ambassador of Time Sharing
4.2 The Météonome Project (Meteos) -- 4.3 The IT Department at SIMCA -- 5: The Plan Calcul (1971-1979) -- 5.1 Louis Pouzin's Choice -- 5.2 From Arpanet to Cyclades -- 5.2.1 1972/An Agreement with the PTT/Packet Switching -- 5.2.2 1972-1973/Datagram/Sliding Windows/International Collaborations -- 5.3 Cigale's Connections -- 5.4 The IRIA Years -- 5.4.1 1973-1974/Cyclades at the Top/A United Team/Louis Pouzin, the Impeller -- 5.4.2 1974/Pressure from PTT/Louis Pouzin, the Activist/Fundamental Differences -- 6: The End of Cyclades (1980-1989) -- 6.1 Luigi's Gang
6.1.1 The Impact in France and on the Internet/Arpanet II and TCP/IP -- 6.2 From CNET to TC6 -- 6.3 Professor-Manager at Theseus -- 6.4 The Life of the Datagram After Cyclades -- 6.4.1 Cyclades with Hindsight -- 6.4.2 Disappointed Teammates/Luigi's Gang/A Great Adventure -- 7: Louis Pouzin's "Retirements" (1993-Present) -- 7.1 The Hermit -- 7.2 The Autrans Internet Meetings -- 7.3 The WSIS -- 8: Internet Governance (2005-2012) -- 8.1 A Fragmented French Community -- 8.2 The Defense of Natural Languages -- 8.3 The Post-WSIS World -- 8.4 Open Roots -- 9: Recognition (2012-2015)
9.1 Louis Pouzin, Pariah and Outcast -- 9.2 The QEPrize -- 9.3 Cybersecurity -- 9.4 Louis Pouzin, Recognized ... Abroad -- 9.5 Digital Sovereignty -- 10: The New Internets (2014-Present) -- 10.1 Lessons from Open Roots -- 10.2 RINA, the Up-coming Internet -- 10.2.1 RINA: Louis' Legacy and Vision -- 10.2.2 Understanding RINA -- 10.2.3 The Internet Under TCP/IP -- 10.2.4 Today's Internet Soup -- 10.3 RINA According to Louis Pouzin -- 10.3.1 RINA Is Based on Recursivity -- 10.3.2 The RINA Functions -- 10.3.3 RINA's Strengths -- 10.3.4 Why Talk About a Bubble Internet for RINA
10.3.5 RINA Is Independent -- 10.3.6 Programming in RINA -- 10.3.7 The Concept of DIF Allocator -- 11: Epilogue -- Bibliography -- 1962 -- 1967 -- 1970 -- 1972 -- 1973 -- 1974 -- 1975 -- 1976 -- 1977 -- 1978 -- 1979 -- 1981 -- 1992 -- 1995 -- 1998 -- 1999 -- 2000 -- 2002 -- 2004 -- 2005 -- 2007 -- 2008 -- 2009 -- 2010 -- 2011 -- 2012 -- 2013 -- 2014 -- 2015 -- 2016 -- 2017 -- 2019
Summary This book recounts the adventures of Louis Pouzin who invented one of the core elements for transmitting data over today's Internet, the datagram. He also created one of the most widely used computer programming languages, the Shell; and is currently, at age 88, a leader in the development of a new Internet, RINA. Louis Pouzin is not well known in his own country, France, but is acclaimed by his peers internationally. He was ignored in France for years although he is one of the very few French scientists who has met Queen Elizabeth II three times. This lack of appreciation on the part of the French public is also due to the fact that, despite the motto "publish or perish" current in scientific circles, he has an impressive list of scientific publications but only one book in English, to present his incredible achievement carried out with an exceptional team: the Cyclades project. This book is the story of a life and a team. It is the journey of a visionary intellectual who has always been one step ahead and has fully adapted to the 21st century though born into a very modest family in a small village in central France at the beginning of the 20th century ... What makes Louis Pouzin so special is that he is a leader and decision-maker who knows how to attract the right people to get projects done. He never admits defeat, even when short-sighted politicians absurdly order him to scrap his breakthroughs. In its making, this book which is written for everyone interested in the true history of the Web, has strictly respected the basic rules of any journalistic investigation: interviews with those who made history, cross-referencing of sources, and documentary research
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Subject Pouzin, L. (Louis)
Computer networks -- History
Computer networks
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Soyez, Fabien
ISBN 9783030348366
3030348369