- DEMONSTRATION AT INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS CONFERENCE
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The International Computer Communications Conference, scheduled
- for 24-26 October 1972 at the Washington, D.C. Hilton Hotel, is a
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- newly organized conference intended to address a broad set of issues
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- in the Computer Communications field. Approximately 17 sessions are
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- currently planned for the conference. The social implications of this
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- field are a matter of widespread interest that reaches society in
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- almost all walks of life; education, medicine, research, business and
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- government. All these areas will be affected as the field develops.
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I am organizing a computer communication network demonstration to
- run in parallel with the sessions. This demonstration will provide
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- attendees with the opportunity to gain first hand experience in the
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- use of a computer network. The theme of the demonstration will be on
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- the value of computer communication networks, emphasizing topics such
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- as data base retrieval, combined use of several machines, real-time
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- data access, interactive cooperation, simulation systems, simplified
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- hard copy techniques, and so forth. I am hoping to present a broad
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- sampling of computer based resources that will provide attendees with
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- some perspective on the utility of computer communication networks.
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Terminal equipment has already been offered by many different
- manufacturers and we are beginning to home in on the application
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- areas. The plan is to deliver a TIP to the Hilton and to connect it
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- into the ARPANET. All terminals at the Hilton will then be connected
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- directly to the TIP. Software resources on the ARPANET as well as
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- resources in other nets that can be temporarily connected to the
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- ARPANET and made available for the purpose of demonstration will be
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- available. In most cases it is possible to arrange for terminal
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- access via the ARPANET to non ARPANET sites without hardware or
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- software development on their part.
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A significant amount of preparation by ourselves, the NIC, and
- others is being devoted to making it convenient for naive users to sit
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- down at a terminal and effectively use "selected" resources without
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- assistance. This involves the generation of "explicit" documentation
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- in easy to understand terms -- a non-trivial task. However, we hope
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- this effort will also be useful for other application in the long run.
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We need the help of sites in the network community to pitch in
- and lend a hand. This is a large undertaking and much too big to be
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- pulled off without a large committment in time and energy between now
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- and October.
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Many of you are already active in planning for ICCC. For those
- of you who may not yet be involved, someone will be contacting or will
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- have contacted your technical liaison in the next few days. We hope
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- you will join us in this effort. If you have suggestions about the
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- demo or if you want particular information about it, please send me a
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- message via the NIC (ident REK2) or get in touch with me at BBN (617)
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- 491-1850 x 3401.
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