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2014 Internet Hall of Fame Interviews: Michael Roberts

presented by Michael Roberts

There was a very tense period between 1984 and 1988 when the telecommunications companies were aggressively trying to promote their own view of where high-performance networking technology should go. And that view was founded in a top-down command and control engineering model. Those of us who were in the research universities, who felt very strongly that the end-to-end, loosely-connected Internet technology was the way to go in order to build a more robust and scalable system really had to fight very hard.

2014 Internet Hall of Fame Interviews: Michael Kende

presented by Michael Kende

In the late 90s I was working for the FCC. And there was a series of mergers that took place between the big Internet backbones of the time. Now a lot of them don’t exist or they were bought up, but MCI, WorldCom, UUNET, Sprint. And so I got involved in looking at the antitrust implications of those mergers.

2014 Internet Hall of Fame Interviews: Mahabir Pun

presented by Mahabir Pun

I started building a wireless network in my country Nepal in early 2000, when the wireless technology was just coming. Nobody then believed that it was possible to build a wireless network in the remote Himalayan region, and to bring Internet to the remote villages where there are no roads, no telecommunication services.

2014 Internet Hall of Fame Interviews: Keith Davidson

presented by Keith Davidson

I think the last big thing that happened on the Internet was the release of the World Wide Web in 1993. And I think since then, while there’s been Facebooks and other things, they’re just applications that are using the World Wide Web. So I’m not sure there’s been a next big thing since 1993.

2014 Internet Hall of Fame Interviews: Karlheinz Brandenburg

presented by Karlheinz Brandenburg

I remember a day quite some time ago—I think it must have been 2001 or so, when I was here for a conference and I looked at the display of one of these electronics shops and I saw thirty different brands of MP3 players. So I said okay, finally we got the breakthrough, now everybody uses it.

2014 Internet Hall of Fame Interviews: John Cioffi

presented by John Cioffi

I believe that I was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame because of the area of the digital subscriber lines. About twenty, twenty-five years ago, I did the initial designs that are used everywhere today—there’s about a half a billion DSLs around the world—and have the basic patents, did the designs and so forth for those DSL systems at that time.

2014 Internet Hall of Fame Interviews: Jason Livingood

presented by Jason Livingood

I was very involved in the breakthrough and the creation and the deployment across the United States of a cable modem-based broadband service. And to take a service that as a large company, getting one and a half megabits per second and spending thousands of dollars per month and making that something that an average person could afford at twenty, thirty, forty dollars a month was transformative.

2014 Internet Hall of Fame Interviews: Irene Misoi

presented by Irene Misoi

One thing that I guess has contributed to Dorcas being selected as an inductee is trying to get many more women to get into careers in computing by building capacity in Africa. And this she did by starting an organization called AfChix Africa that has got chapters in more than twenty-two countries.

2014 Internet Hall of Fame Interviews: Ir Daniel Lai

presented by Ir Daniel Lai

As the GCIO I’m responsible for three areas. One is the application of IT within government—with the use of Internet of course. And another area is digital inclusion for the whole society. And thirdly to facilitate ICT development in Hong Kong.

2014 Internet Hall of Fame Interviews: Hualin Qian

presented by Hualin Qian

My part for the global Internet is very little. Only introducing the Internet to China. We had finished our first Internet connection to the United States in 1994. That brought China to the Internet.