UCLA commemorates 35 years of the Net
The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science
will be celebrating the 35th anniversary of the first Internet
message today with a symposium.
Many of the Internet’s initial pilots will be there to
speak and offer opinions on how the Internet came to be what it is
now, and what it will be like in the future.
Google Inc.’s CEO Eric Schmidt and UCLA computer science
Professor Leonard Kleinrock will be present “A Conversation
with Eric Schmidt and Leonard Kleinrock.”
On Oct. 29, 1969, the first Internet message was launched by a
team of engineers led by Kleinrock.
“There was no record of this event, and there wasn’t
even a good message prepared; when it happened we realized it was a
great experiment,” he said.
The first message was “lo” since they had been
trying to “log” when the other computer crashed.
“I imagined great things, but I never imagined my
97-year-old mother would be using it. I never envisioned it as
people talking to each other, I only saw computers talking to each
other,” he said.
Sponsored by Broadcom, Cisco Systems and NetZero, the symposium
speakers will analyze the four sides of the Internet.
They will address issues such as the Internet’s role in
today’s technologically advanced society. They will also
address the second issue of the social, political and educational
implications of Internet globalization.
Other issues they will address are those of emerging
applications of the Internet, how that changes the way youth use
it, and its future.
The event will be held in the Northwest Campus Auditorium from 8
a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Wanted teenager caught
LOS ANGELES “”mdash; Sheriff’s deputies arrested a
17-year-old boy for allegedly causing $200,000 damage to public
buses by scrawling his moniker on buses in at least 130 acts of
vandalism.
The teenager, arrested Wednesday, was one of the Metropolitan
Transportation Authority’s most wanted taggers.
Last year, removing graffiti from buses and trains cost the
agency $7.8 million, up from $5.7 million the previous year.
With reports from Bruin wire services and Youmi Chun, Bruin
Science & Health contributor.