Back to the Future Part 4: The Internet Simon S. Lam Department of Computer Sciences The University of Texas at Austin â lam@cs.utexas.edu Slide 1 Back to the Future Part 4: The Internet Simon S. Lam Department of Computer Sciences The University of Texas at Austin I was much younger then. The great thing about young people is that they have no fear. I don t remember that I ever worried about losing money. I arranged to use the Thompson conference center on campus which charged us only a nominal fee. We had a great lineup of speakers. The pre-conference tutorial on network protocol design was by David Clark, a former SIGCOMM Award winner. The Keynote session had three speakers: Vint Cerf, another former SIGCOMM Award winner, John Shoch of Xerox who was in charge of Ethernet development at that time, and Louis Pouzin, yet another former SIGCOMM Award winner. We had 220 attendees, an excellent attendance for a rst-time conference. We ended up making quite a bit of money. End of story. Slide 2 Sigcomm 2004 Keynote S. S. Lam IP won the networking race Many competitors in the past SNA, DECnet, XNS X.25, ATM, CLNP IP
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