Computer History Museum

Feinler, Elizabeth oral history

"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.

Item Details

Date
2009-09-10 (Made)
Type
Document
Catalogue number
102702199
Organization
Computer History Museum
People
Marc Weber (Interviewer)
Elizabeth "Jake" Feinler (Interviewee)
Category
Transcript
Extent
49 p.
Place of publication
USA/CA/Mountain View
Language
English
Acquisition number
X5378.2009
Subject
ARPANET, Stanford Research Institute (SRI)
Archive collection
CHM Oral History Collection
Archive hierarchy
CHM Oral History Collection