Wednesday, March 25

Illegally apron-parked cars in the North Village receive citations warning of future tickets

People who park illegally in the North Village received written warnings on Wednesday morning that the city will soon begin to distribute tickets for apron parking, or blocking the sidewalk by parking behind other cars in a driveway. Read more...

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A line of cars that are apron parked in the North Village just out of a driveway and into the street. This type of parking will soon be ticketed.





Evening Van Service extended south of Wilshire

Starting this week, the Community Service Officer Evening Van Service route will be extended to run south of Wilshire Boulevard to accommodate greater student demand. Read more...

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The Community Service Officer Evening Van Service will extend its route to south-of-Wilshire.


Nonprofit organization Project Vietnam Foundation helps rural villages in Vietnam with improving medical training

In American medical schools, students are required to go to psychiatric hospitals and attain clinical hands-on training, regardless of the specialty they choose. Read more...

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Trang Ho examines the teeth of a child in Vietnam. Ho volunteered with the Project Vietnam Foundation to provide medical care to impoverished villages.
(Courtesy of Trang Ho)


Browsing history: A heritage site is being set up in Boelter Hall 3420, the room the first Internet message originated in

Lo and behold! The Internet was born

April 1, 2011 – In 1969, a group of UCLA engineers sent the first-ever Internet message from UCLA to the Stanford Research Institute. Leonard Kleinrock, computer science professor and Internet technology pioneer, recounts what the message was supposed to be and what actually happened.

The room where this message was sent from is in the works to become an Internet Heritage Site and Archive. Read the full story here.

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"Lo and behold! The Internet was born"

When Brad Fidler started investigating the origins of the Internet at UCLA, there was no consensus on who created the technology and where it began. Read more...

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History doctoral candidate Brad Fidler discovered that the first Internet message was sent from a room on the UCLA campus in 1969, using the Interface Message Processor shown here.



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