Artifact Details

Title

Feinler, Elizabeth oral history

Catalog Number

102702199

Type

Document

Description

"Jake" Elizabeth Feinler was the director of the Network Information Systems Center at SRI. This group provided administrative services to the Network Information Center (NIC) for the Arpanet and the Defense Data Network (DDN), a project for which she was the principal investigator from 1973 until 1991. Earlier she was a member of Douglas Engelbart's Augmentation Research Center (ARC) at SRI which housed the second computer on the Arpanet. It was on this computer that the NIC resided initially. Jake is also a volunteer at the Computer History Museum. This interview discusses Ms. Feinler's time with the NIC and describes the extensive collection of early Internet papers she has donated to the Museum.

Date

2009-09-10

Contributor

Feinler, Elizabeth "Jake", Interviewee
Weber, Marc, Interviewer

Publisher

Computer History Museum

Place of Publication

Mountain View, California

Extent

49 p.

Category

Transcription

Subject

Feinler, Elizabeth; Feinler, Jake; Network Information Center (NIC); Stanford Research Institute (SRI); ARPANET; Defense Data Network (DDN); Engelbart, Douglas; Augmentation Research Center (ARC)

Collection Title

Oral history collection

Lot Number

X5378.2009

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