Volume 13, No. 2
April 2001
The World Wide Web and the Transformation of Internet Doman Names
IEEE 2001 Conference on History of Telecommunications
Book Review:
The Sociology of Invention: A review of Silicon Sky
News of the Field:
Marconi Collection
Scientific and Technical Information Systems Historical Meeting
Telecomm Museum and Website, SHOT website
Superman and the Case of the Disappearing Public Telephone
IEEE 2001 Conference on History of Telecommunications
The IEEE History Committee and the IEEE History Center at Rutgers University will sponsor a conference this summer on St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada. This beautiful site marks Marconi’s 1901 reception of the first transatlantic radio signal, and it is close to the where the first transatlantic cable landed in 1866. For more information, check out <www.ieee.org/history_center/cht2001.html>.