Computer Networks: The Heralds of Resource Sharing
Computer Networks: The Heralds of Resource Sharing is a short documentary film from 1972, produced by Steven King and directed/edited by Peter Chvany, about ARPANET, an early packet-switching network and one of the first networks to implement the protocol suite TCP/IP.
Content
The 30 minute film features many of the most important names in computer networking, especially J. C. R. Licklider and others from MIT's Project MAC who had connected a computer to ARPANET the year before. According to a history of computing equipment by Columbia University it "begins with a montage of equipment... and then has interviews with ARPANET creators." The film discusses "the potential that this network has for revolutionizing so many industries and institutions". Bob Kahn presents concepts originally published by Donald Davies at the inaugural Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, which were being implemented in the ARPANET.Participants
Speaking parts:- Fernando J. Corbató : Turing Award winner, implementer of multitasking operating systems.
- J. C. R. Licklider :, and many times throughout the film. Licklider discusses how, despite the invention of the printing press being a revolution, the transmission of information on paper was slow. He also discusses collaboration, access to digital libraries, the transition to electronic information and the social processes involved in this.
- Lawrence G. Roberts: SIGCOMM Award winner.
- Robert Kahn: Turing Award winner.
- Frank Heart:
- William R. Sutherland :
- Richard W. Watson: mass storage researcher
- John R. Pasta:
- Donald W. Davies: packet switching inventor.
- George W. Mitchell:
Unidentified:
- : previously misidentified as Jon Postel