Timeline

Keith Uncapher leaves Rand Corp. to establish ISI at USC.

ISI designs series of interfaces for Internet predecessor ARPAnet; first public ARPAnet demonstration at International Conference on Computer Communications.

ARPAnet is used by researchers as a high-speed post office, not just the decentralized, defense-specific network envisioned by DARPA.

Internet address registry created; later becomes Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), which administers IP addresses and other critical Net functions. Maintained by ISI’s Jonathan Postel.

ISI develops micro-programmable emulation engine in first adaptive computing system.

First ARPAnet portable display terminal created at ISI; effectively among first laptop computers.

First full-page video display terminal created at ISI.

'Faxie' technology developed to provide digital interface to fax machine (washing machine-sized at time.)

'Talkie' low-cost annunciation device becomes forerunner to electronic speech synthesis.

ISI's Danny Cohen launches MOSIS chip prototyping and small-scale production service.

Internet Activities Board guilding technical development of Net founded.

MOSIS founded.

ISI researcher Paul Mockapetris creates Domain Name Server (DNS) architecture that remains in place throughout Net's exponential growth.

First version of SOAR artificial intelligence software, a groundbreaking cognitive acrchitecture, appears, evolvling subsequently at ISI and the University of Michigan.

ISI develops digital voice architecture for ARPAnet that remains in effect on Internet today.

Packet video protocol implemented.

ISI researcher Jonathon Postel coins "dot-com" and other domain names.

First high-resolution computer monitor display created at ISI

ISI assigned responsibility for Domain Network Server management.

Herbert Schorr appointed ISI Executive Director.

ISI in Arlington, VA established

ISI creates FAST brokering system, one of world's first - and still ongoing - online businesses.

ISI devises one of first Internet-based electronic payment systems.

ISI/Argonne National Laboratories-designed computer grid - prototype for now-standard Globus open-source software toolbox - created.

Postel, the White House and the Department of Commerce create Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) as Net usage explodes. IANA management transfers to ICANN.

ISI and Columbia University found the Digital Government Research Center to explore federal information issues. DGRC website

ISI helps Internet2, on which Institute collaborated, set land speed record.

USC High-Performance Computing and Communications Center, now the fourth-largest university supercomputer, debuts under ISI-USC effort.

ISI partners with UC Berkeley to create DETER cyber-security facility.

Behrokh Khoshnevis receives Annenberg Foundation grant to support intensified research on efficient, robotic residential construction.

US troops begin learning Arabic via videogame developed at ISI.

Paul Mockapetris and Danny Cohen elected to NAS membership, largely for work done at ISI.