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Although the Internet did not get its name until the mid-1980s, December 5, 2009, marks the 40th anniversary of the day when the Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) connected four computer nodes to create a "network of networks"--a fateful link-up that would evolve into the Internet
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Vint Cerf reflects on the cobbling together of four network nodes, a moment that helped usher in the invention that changed life as we know it
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Network Challenge begins Saturday, but social networks have been buzzing for weeks about the nationwide quest to find 10 big red weather balloons
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A group of companies led by Alcatel-Lucent demonstrate the power of next-generation wireless broadband technologies by rolling out a Prius with 4G connectivity
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The National Science Foundation delivers $1.1 million to Rensselaer Polytech researchers to stimulate the Semantic Web
The first Internet addiction detox center in the U.S. opened earlier this year in Fall City, Wash., just a few miles from Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond
Computers, the Internet and mobile phones have brought their users a great degree of freedom, bu they've also had a severe impact on privacy, the distribution of information and security
CERN on March 13 celebrates the 20th anniversary of a proposal entitled, "Information Management: A Proposal," by Tim Berners-Lee, which would become the blueprint for the World Wide Web
Undersea cables, only a few centimeters in diameter, are sometimes at risk of being severed by offshore earthquakes or ship anchors
Now an endangered species, it was crucial to the development of personal computing and the Internet
Author and journalist Carl Zimmer talks about the search for the physiological and biological basis of intelligence, the subject of his article in the October issue of Scientific American magazine. And editor-in-chief, John Rennie, discusses other articles in the issue, including the cover story on the possibility of a big bounce instead of the big bang and the science of the World Wide Web. Plus, we'll test your knowledge about some recent science in the news. Web sites mentioned in this episode include www.SciAm.com/sciammag; www.carlzimmer.com
Argonne National Laboratory director Robert Rosner talks about the role of science in keeping America an economic leader
The Internet stands ready to upend the television viewing experience, but exactly how is a matter of considerable dispute
Courtesy of some of the weirdest laws of physics, we may someday be able to search and surf the Web without anyone collecting our data
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