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2019 Internet Hall of Fame Inductee Interviews: Jean Armour Polly

presented by Jean Armour Polly

Probably the thing that I’m most known for would be helping to evangelize the use of the Internet in public libraries. In the United States now, if you walk into a library you’ll see public computers set out and people can get free time on them. But it wasn’t always like that.

2019 Internet Hall of Fame Inductee Interviews: Elise Gerich

presented by Elise Gerich

Be bold. Explore things. Be willing to challenge the status quo. Not necessarily like throw everything out. Not the baby with the bathwater, as we say. But don’t be afraid to experiment. You know, just because it’s always been done one way doesn’t mean that there might not be another way to approach the problem. And don’t think things can’t be done.

2019 Internet Hall of Fame Inductee Interviews: Douglas Comer

presented by Douglas Comer

The hard part was that everything was new at the same time. There was new hardware. There were new protocols. There was a new implementation of protocols in the operating system. It was actually difficult to figure out how to build protocol software in the operating systems. We had new applications. Things that…you have to understand at the time people didn’t use networks. So everything was being done at the same time.

Sustainably Feeding a Planet of 11 Billion

presented by Charles Godfray

The most extraordinary thing that’s happened in my adult intellectual lifespan is a demographic transition. The fact that human population fertility will reduce itself naturally in a non-coercive way if we get things right.

José Soriano’s Internet Hall of Fame 2019 Induction Speech

presented by José Soriano

It’s a great honor to be inducted in the Internet Hall of Fame. I don’t do it in my name alone. I do it for all the Peruvians who work in this network we built in the 90s. We learned very well the teachings of Randy Bush. Sometimes when he taught us technology with love, and we saw poetic, hippie, unrepentant words. And we created with that a vision.

Michael Stanton’s Internet Hall of Fame 2019 Induction Speech

presented by Michael Stanton

RNP was launched in September 1989, exactly thirty years ago this month. So we’re now at the stage of looking back and seeing how we are at present.

Elise Gerich’s Internet Hall of Fame 2019 Induction Speech

presented by Elise Gerich

Part of my networking experience as I grew as a networking person, and Internet person, people would come up and say, “Well what was it like to be a woman in a men’s field?” And I’ve gotta compliment the Merit folks who hired the NSFNET staff. They were gender-blind.

Kimberly Claffy’s Internet Hall of Fame 2019 Induction Speech

presented by Kimberly Claffy

So many previous awardees have spoken of the magic sauce of the Internet. The opposite of secret sauce, I guess, because they all use the word “open.” Open standards, open architecture, open source. They said this openness is what made the Internet the Internet. Which sounds mostly right, although not much like how we experience the Internet today.

Larry Irving’s Internet Hall of Fame 2019 Induction Speech

presented by Larry Irving

In 1993 when we first started talking about the digital divide and doing the work to define the digital divide, there were 15 million people on this planet on the Internet. Today there are 4 billion. A lot of people in this room did a lot of work to make that happen. But we have a lot that we need to do still.

Austerity as a Service
Human-Centered Design for Climate Mitigation and Resilience

presented by Scott Sullivan

As a human-centered designer what is my role, what is our role, in this kind of bigger picture? If this is the dominant lens of society, what’s our contribution?