https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vint_Cerf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Kahn
It was 1978 while my old boss Ray Rikansrud, University of Washington (UW) met with Vint Cerf.to learn about TCP/IP. We were attending the Telecommunications Association (TCA) annual conference at the Town & Country in San Diego, CA.
September was a gorgeous month in San Diego. The TCA Annual Conference was the biggest IT show on the planet back then…
UW was at the center of the Information Age back in the 70s when I worked there with Ray as his telecom manager. It was an unforgettable turning point in my IT career. Ray is to this day one of my very best mentors and a dear friend…
https://www.washington.edu/uwit/about-us/publications/history/
Ray headed up the UW Telecommunications Dept back then. I was his Telecommunications Manager. I loved working at UW, especially Ray. To this day, when Ray calls me, he announces, “this is your supervisor.” And, he still is, always will be. It’s badge of honor of friendship and pride of all the things we accomplished together ❤
It is was here when I was inspired by the rapid acceleration of the Information Age. Ray and I were on the ground for all the excitement at UW. It was a dream!
Paul Allen and Bill Gates were there too, and many others with the same passion as us.. “We can do this!” Ray and I couldn’t stop talking about it…
The UW Medical Center campus was Ray’s most impactful project at that time. But, we needed fiber optic infrastructure on campus to make the School of Medicine the best on the planet…
It was the passion, innovation and entrepreneurship that made it happen. It was Ray who inspired me to be a winner!
I’ll share more in the coming days and weeks about UW’s leadshop role in building the Internet and fiber optic infrastructure to make it happen…
This is where the Internet was first built for commercial applications. This is where Microsoft and Amazon started what we know today as the Smartphone and e-commerce.
“The world will change forever” Ray said to me as we left his office late one night back then. I believed him. And, he believed in me…
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