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USC Memorial Tribute for
Jonathan B. Postel
A memorial tribute for Jonathan B. Postel was held at the University of Southern California on November 5, 1998. The service was Webcast live on the Internet via the Real Broadcast Network (RealVideo) and on the Mbone.
The memorial tribute program is listed below along with links to the RealVideo archive of the event. Viewing the Webcast archive requires the RealPlayer (available freely from Real Networks).
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Memorial Tribute Program
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Entire Program
60 minutes
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Prelude
RUSSIAN STRING QUARTET
Canon in D, Johann Pachelbel
6 minutes
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Reflections
STEVEN B. SAMPLE
President, University of Southern California
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JOYCE K. REYNOLDS
Senior Network Services Specialist, USC Information
Sciences Institute
Reading from "The Mountains of California"
by John Muir
3 minutes
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HERBERT SCHORR
Executive Director, Information Sciences
Institute
6 minutes
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IRA C. MAGAZINER
Senior Advisor to the President of the United
States for Policy Development
5 minutes
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Interlude
Adagio for Strings, Samuel Barber
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JOSEPH A. BANNISTER
Associate Division Director, Computer Network
Division, Information Sciences Institute
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DANNY COHEN
Vice President, Myricom, Inc.
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ROBERT BRADEN
Senior Research Staff, Information Sciences
Institute
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POSTEL FAMILY
11 minutes
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Music
Excerpts, Brandenburg Concerto, Johann
Sebastian Bach
2 minutes
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Additional Information:
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USC News Release
ISI Jon Postel Memorial
Condolences
Jon Postel's homepage at ISI
The Information Sciences Institute (ISI)
IANA homepage
Internet Society Memorial Site
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Articles:
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Memoir by longtime friend and fellow Internet pioneer Vint Cerf
Interview with Dr. Postel by David S. Bennahum, contributing editor of Wired magazine
Techweb interview by John Borland
Interview with Dr. Jon Postel, "Heavenly Father of the Internet," in Networker@USC
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Jonathan B. Postel was a leading figure in computer networking. He became interested in networking as a graduate student at
UCLA, being one of the first to join a research project to build the ARPANet, the ground-breaking packet- switching network
which later evolved into today's Internet. After UCLA Jon worked briefly at Mitre and SRI, eventually settling at USC/ISI in
March of 1977, where he spent the remaining 21 years of his career.
At ISI, Jon progressed from researcher to division
director. His contributions to science and engineering are many and wide, including protocol design and verification,
multimedia computing and communications, electronic commerce, the domain name system, and many specific Internet
protocols. In addition to his accomplishments in research, Jon is widely known for the influence he exerted on the
management of the Internet. Very early, Jon recognized that packet-switching research would need organization and a
modicum of discipline if it were to realize its full potential as a universal communication medium. Jon began, and continued
until his untimely death, the activities that eventually grew into the RFC Editor, which issues and controls the many documents
that specify how Internet computers interoperate.
Jon also initiated (circa 1981) the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
(IANA), which is the central coordination function for the global Internet. Despite the fact that Jon was primarily a researcher,
his sense of duty -- not to mention the explosive growth that has occurred in the Internet -- led him to progressively greater
involvement in Internet service activities. In many respects, Jon's oft-quoted maxim of robust protocol design, "Be conservative
in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others," reflects the principles that applied in both his professional and
personal life.
Jon Postel died Friday, October 16, 1998. He was 55.
From the ISI Jon Postel Memorial page.
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