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Janet Abbate (born June 3, 1962) is an associate professor of science, technology, and society at Virginia Tech. Her research focuses on the history of computer science and the Internet , particularly on the participation of women in the field .
Janet Abbate's 1999 book Inventing the Internet was widely reviewed as an important work on the history of computing and networking, particularly in highlighting the role of social dynamics and of non-American participation in early networking development. [210] [211] The book was also praised for its use of archival resources to tell the ...
Recoding Gender: Women’s Changing Participation in Computing, written in 2012 by Janet Abbate, examines the history of programming and how gender bias shifted the demographic of programmers. [127] The main argument made by Janet Abbate in this book was that women are discriminated against in the technology field and are not given the same ...
The work of INWG was a significant step in the creation of the Transmission Control Program and ultimately the Internet. [42]... the International Network Working Group was created ... to draw a larger cohort of people into this whole question of how to design and build packet switch networks. That eventually led to the design of the Internet.
Internet history timeline: ... about the "Technology of the Internet" at The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley ... Abbate, Janet (2000), Inventing the ...
The service started in 1973 with disk storage only; tertiary storage using Ampex's Terabit Memory System (TMS) hardware, based on videotape technology, was to come on line in 1975. [6] In 1979, TMS's capacity was 175 billion bits (22 GB), and the total data stored was over 500 billion bits (62 GB) [ 4 ]
A veteran Merced businessman who owns McDonald’s restaurants throughout the San Joaquin Valley is expanding to Georgia. Jim Abbate, whose family has long been in the Golden Arches business ...
Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider (1915–1990) was a faculty member of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and researcher at Bolt, Beranek and Newman.He developed the idea of a universal computer network at the Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO) of the United States Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA).