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The Internet Comes Full Circle
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To Jean Armour Polly, the commercial landscape of the Internet has somewhat come full circle. A 2019 Internet Hall of Fame inductee, Polly was among the first librarians in the country to facilitate patrons’ Internet...
MoreInternet Pioneer Asserts that Monitoring Growth in Connectivity is Key
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If you ask Bob Metcalfe, connectivity is key. As part of the ...
MoreA Place for Innovation: Klaas Wierenga's Internet Hopes
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One 2019 inductee into the Internet Hall of Fame did not expect to go global quite so quickly. In the early 2000s, while pursuing studies and research opportunities abroad, Klaas Wierenga developed ...
MoreLarry Irving Predicts Digital Inequities Slated to Worsen
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Despite Larry Irving’s dogged efforts to ensure Internet access for minorities and the impoverished, digital equity remains an uphill battle. “Four-and-a-half billion people are connected to the Internet, and most Americans are connected,”...
MoreInductee Hopes for New, Affordable Infrastructure for High-speed Networks
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There are a lot more people, platforms, and devices connected to the web than Jianping Wu could have imagined 25 years ago. For more than 25 years, Wu, a 2017 inductee into the Internet Hall of Fame, has led the design,...
MoreHow to Build Collaborative Teams – On the Net and in Life
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Elise Gerich retired in 2018 from a 30-year career in networking that led to her induction in the fall of 2019 into the Internet Hall of Fame. Her success in multiple areas of Internet science – from her leadership at the...
MoreLasting Impact of the Internet
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Nabil Bukhalid sees the Internet as a major disruptor, although he’s not quite sure how to label it. While at the American University of Beirut, the 2017 Internet Hall of Fame inductee led the computing and networking team...
MoreInternet Evangelist Turns Amateur Genealogist
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Jean Armour Polly, retired from working as a public librarian and Internet evangelist, continues to provide folks with information in a very personal way. She volunteers at a local Rescue Mission Thrifty Shopper,...
MoreLeveraging the Internet for Solutions
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As the Internet becomes more globally accessible, Yvonne Marie Andres would like to see it used more for preventing problems than creating new ones. A 2017 inductee into the Internet Hall of Fame, Andres was one of...
MoreKlaas Wierenga Facilitates Research on the Road
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Traveling scholars can thank Klaas Wierenga for making their research efforts a little easier while on the road. A 2019 inductee into the Internet Hall of Fame, Wierenga developed ...
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