Computer network-based scientific collaboration in the energy research community, 1973-1977: a memoir

Author

Estrin, Gerald

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., California Univ., Los Angeles, CA, USA

Volume

22

Issue

2

fYear

2000

Firstpage

42

Lastpage

52

Abstract

In 1973, four national laboratory groups and three university energy research groups started an investigation of whether scientific collaboration could be improved with computer networks. Four years later, the seven groups were piggybacked on to the Arpanet, and more than 60 case histories of applications had been documented. This article reviews the early collaboration and tells how the energy research community was introduced to modern computer networking

Keywords

groupware; history; natural sciences computing; power engineering computing; professional communication; wide area networks; Arpanet; case histories; computer network-based scientific collaboration; computer networking; energy research community; laboratory groups; memoir; university energy research groups; Collaboration; Computer aided manufacturing; Computer networks; Distributed computing; History; Intelligent networks; Laboratories; Research and development; Resource management; Time sharing computer systems;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1058-6180

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/85.841136

Filename

841136