Former Head of UCD's Computer Science Dept to Join ICANN Board
Irishman Dennis Jennings’ has been nominated to the Board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
In 1983 the former head of University College Dublin (UCD’s) Computer Science Department, while in charge of the supercomputing initiative at US NSF (US National Science Foundation), decided to apply DARPA TCP/IP protocols to the university world when previously they had only been used in the military. The Irishman’s decision with the US NSF (US National Science Foundation) led to the creation of the internet as we know it today.
Jennings’ says that it’s merely a case of him getting there first but can’t deny he contributed to paving the way for the internet. “If I didn’t do it someone else would have. But it is true that I made the decisions that led to the internet as we know it. I was the first person in the US to talk about an ‘internet’ and the first to create a network that incorporated all the other networks in the US at the time.”
He will now sit on the board of the internet’s governing body from the end of October.
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