IEEE-Madison Webinar: “Internet Infrastructure -- Fungible Packets Everywhere”

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Talk:  “Internet Infrastructure -- Fungible Packets Everywhere" -- The Internet Infrastructure evolved over many years starting with per-line connected  dial-ups.  The talk discusses the history of technical evolution of the internet and how many things were discovered that "experts" thought were not technically feasible, such as VoIP.  It is time to examine the structure and replace the "rent to never own" infrastructure with a lower cost, more flexible "Fungible Packets Everywhere" approach. 

Bob Frankston discusses the history of technological development along with the regulatory environment and how that biased the internet evolution.  He argues that companies selling "service" are not in a position to offer the lowest cost connectivity. By switching to a fungible packet infrastructure where the actual connecting technology can be dynamically changed he predicts we will reach a lower cost and more reliable internet. 

Speaker: Bob Frankston is best known for implementing VisiCalc (https://rmf.vc/VisiCalc), the first electronic spreadsheet and enabling home networking (while at Microsoft). Throughout his career he has sought to share the power of software with others by creating enabling technologies. He is currently on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society and writes a column for their magazine.

Note:  For background information, see Frankston's  2020 IEEE-Madison talk: "Software + Connectivity => Opportunity and a New Generative Reality”


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  • Date: 06 Dec 2022
  • Time: 06:00 PM to 08:00 PM
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  • Co-sponsored by IEEE-Madison Entrepreneurs and Consultants Network
  • Starts 18 November 2022 10:12 AM
  • Ends 06 December 2022 10:12 AM
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Bob Frankston Bob Frankston of IEEE CES

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Internet Infrastructure -- Fungible Packets Everywhere

Talk:  “Internet Infrastructure -- Fungible Packets Everywhere" -- The Internet Infrastructure evolved over many years starting with per-line conected  dial-ups.  The talk discusses the history of technical evolution of the internet and how many things were discovered that "experts" thought were not techiically feasible, such as VoIP.  It is time to examine the structure and replace the "rent to never own" infrastructure with a lower cost, more flexible "Fungible Packets Everywhere" approach. 

Frankston discusses the history of technological development along with the regulatory environment and how that biased the internet evolution.  He argues that companies selling "service" are not in a position to offer the lowest cost connectivity. By switching to a fungile packet infrastucture where the actual connecting technology can be dynamically changed he predicts we will reach a lower cost and more reliable internet. 

Speaker: Bob Frankston is best known for implementing VisiCalc (https://rmf.vc/VisiCalc), the first electronic spreadsheet and enabling home networking (while at Microsoft). Throughout his career he has sought to share the power of software with others by creating enabling technologies. He is currently on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society and writes a column for their magazine.

Note:  For background information, see Frankston's  2020 IEEE-Madison talk: "Software + Connectivity => Opportunity and a New Generative Reality”

Also, see Bob's columns here: "Communities of Things"  and here: "Rewiring my House... and the World"

Biography:

Academic

 While in Junior High School sat in on a class for Hunter College faculty on how to program their new IBM 1620. It was taught by Mary Dolciani. (January 1963)

Stuyvesant High School (1963-1966)

Stuyvesant is one of the Science/Academic schools in New York City. Helped start the computer curriculum. Spent time at New York University's Courant Institute, where I gained experience on larger systems. There is a link back to this site on their Alumni page.

MIT (Undergrad 1967-1970, Grad 1970-1976)

Received BS Degrees in both Computer Science and Mathematics in 1970 and Masters and Engineers Degrees in Computer Science (and EE) in 1974. Did graduate work at Project MAC (renamed Laboratory for Computer Science and now CSAIL) where I was involved in the Multics project. My Master's Thesis was "The Computer Utility as a Marketplace for Computer-Based Services". One area of continuing interest is "federated" systems. These are loosely coupled systems and databases as opposed to the more rigid distributed systems. Also did research in the Clinical Decision Making Group.

Co-founded the Student Information Processing Board, which provided computer access to students.

Business and Professional
2013-present IEEE Consumer Electronics Society
Write a column for the society's magazine
2015-2017, member of the Board of Governors
1998-2013 Member of CommonAngels concentrating on early and seed stage investements.
1993-1998 Microsoft Corporation, where I focused on the consumer use of computers, in particular, home networking. This effort played a central role in today's home networks and repurposing broadband service networks for Internet connectivity. This effort involved assuring that Windows as "Internet-ready" as well as addressing protocol, infrastructure and working with carriers on policy issues to create a coherent "just works" experience.
1990-1992 Slate Corporation, working on mobile and pen-based systems. Slate focused on pen-based and mobile computing.
1985-1990 Lotus Development, where I created the Lotus Express product and a Fax facility for Lotus Notes.
1979-1985 Founded Software Arts in 1979 with Dan Bricklin to develop and sell VisiCalc. VisiCalc was the first electronic spreadsheet program and remained a widely used program for personal computers for many years. (If you're interested in VisiCalc history, please send me mail.)
1977-1978 Consulted for ECD corporation in 1977 and developed a very extended Basic for their multiprocessor 6502-based system. ECD eventually learned the lessons of selling below cost and is no longer with us.
1966-1979 Worked at White-Weld and Company in their computer research division, which later became Interactive Data Corporation, in various roles doing systems design and implementation. White-Weld was one of the earliest financial information services and used the Scientific Data Systems 940 to provide time-sharing services. Later, at IDC, developed tools on their own version of IBM's VM system. These projects included an interactive debugger and a VM-based mail system (predating Profs).

Awards & Honors

Writings

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Prehistory

 I was born in 1949 in Brooklyn, New York.

The current Interactive Data Corporation site but it's a very different company from the version I worked for..

The Engineer's Degree is not as common in the United States as in Europe. It is a degree beyond the Master's but not quite a Ph.D. More information about MIT EECS degree's.

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Agenda

6:00 PM -- Talk Starts with Pre-recorded video

6:45 PM: Q&A/Discussion

Meeting Information

Meeting link: NOTE:  The URL for the Webinar will be sent to your email address prior to the event.  PLEASE Register!

Questons for Bob?  Send an email to tjkaminski@ieee.org with your question and he will see them.