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Tag Archives: Internet
Computers and Culture
As part of a continuing series of discussions on the history of information technology produced in collaboration with the Computerworld Smithsonian Awards Program, Soundings features innovator Brewster Kahle. His latest brainchild is the Internet Archive, a large-scale digital information repository. Among the Archive’s goals is keeping track of the technical innovations that are changing our understanding and use of digital information.
Yahoo!
To some of us, the World Wide Web offers a daily adventure of finding new sites and information. To others, the Web is a welter of words and images. To help make sense of it all, Jerry Yang, one of the inventors of Yahoo! — the Internet search engine — describes his pioneering work in organizing information on the Web.
The Cyber Agenda: Politics and the Power of the Internet
Lawrence K. Grossman and James Kinsella discuss and describe how new technologies such as the Internet, online magazines, and interactive cable systems are replacing our shared experience of the front page, nightly news on TV, and conventional magazines. Grossman and Kinsella were participants in a 1996 conference at the National Humanities Center, “Deliberative Democracy in the Information Age,” part of the American Issues Forum.
Grossman is former president of PBS and author of The Electronic Republic: Reshaping American Democracy for the Information Age. At the time of this interview, Kinsella was general manager of MSNBC; he was founder of TIME magazine’s online newsfeed and Time Warner group’s Pathfinder online guide to its publications.
This episode of Soundings was conducted by Wayne J. Pond.
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Internet Pioneer
Robert Kahn reflects on his role in the history and social implications of information technology. Kahn is the founder of the Internet and his influence on the growth of information technology is widely known in industry and government. He is the 1996 recipient of the Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) Information Technology Leadership Award for Global Integration, presented at the Computerworld Smithsonian Awards Program in Washington.
West Virginia Wired; Commentary
Governor Gaston Caperton is the winner of the Zenith Data Systems Information Technology Leadership Award for Education, presented in recent ceremonies in Washington at the Computerworld Smithsonian Awards Program. Gov. Caperton talks about a highly successful model for computer technology training in West Virginia’s schools, a program that has resulted in the installation of nearly 16,000 computer workstations in classrooms throughout the state from kindergarten through grade four and in the training of more than 10,000 educators through intensive, hands-on experience.
Civic Journalism & Cyberspace
An opinion that even though the flow of information in our society has never been greater, journalism in America has surrendered the high ground of serious reporting to entertainment, hasty analysis, and poor research. However, because of new technologies such as the Internet and the World Wide Web, the potential for creating the electronic equivalent of the public square has never been better.
High Tech Democracy
“In part four of a series funded by the Computerworld Smithsonian Awards Program, technology policy expert David Lytel discusses the internet and its implications for democracy in the long-term and for the 1996 presidential race. Lytel developed the White House Internet web site and served on the National Information Infrastructure initiative.” [Wayne Pond]
Casting the Internet
“The Computerworld Smithsonian Awards Program and Soundings collaborate to present cyberspace pioneer Robert Metcalfe. Inventor of the Ethernet and executive correspondent for InfoWorld Magazine, Metcalfe talks about the history, evolution, and culture of the Internet and the World Wide Web.” [Wayne Pond]
Learning Online
Part of the series of discussions on the history, culture, and ethics of information technology with the cooperation of the Computerworld Smithsonian Awards Program.