CU 7- INTERNET AND MOBILE COMPUTING IN NURSING

Vint Cerf

Who is the father of the internet?

Bob Kahn

Along with Viint Cerf, who proposed TCP and ICP?

Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)

What allows computers to connect to a network and exchange data, and carries the task of breaking messages into small packets?

Internet Protocol (IP)

What is considered a lower level protocol, which is responsible for making decision on the packets an routing them?

Internet

What is a worldwide network of interconnected computer networks that operates using a standard set of communications?

Decentralized and independent of underlying media

What are the 2 key features of the internet?

Conventional copper wire, coaxial cable. optical fiber, and radio waves

Internet traffic can travel thru what?

Vannevar Bush

Who developed MEMEX?

Norbert Wiener

Who developed CYBERNETICS?

Marshall McLuhan

Who developed GLOBAL VILLAGE?

The 1956 Dartmouth Artificial Intelligence Conference

What crystallized the concept that technology was improving at an exponential rate, and provided the first serious consideration of the consequences?

Dr. Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider

Who formulated the idea of Intergalactic Computer Network and the ARPANET?

Lawrence Gilman Roberts

Who led the development of he network, based on the idea of packet switching discovered by Paul Bran at RAND?

Paul Baran and Donald Davis

Who made packet switching?

Interface Message Processor

What is the first packet?