A brief listing of computer related educational organizations.
Here are the first 4 sites on ARPANET in 1969: UCLA (first), SRI, UCSB, and Utah.
Here are the first 15 location on ARPANET in 1971: UCLA (first), SRI (Stanford), UCSB, Utah, BBN (non-edu), MIT, RAND (non-edu), SDC (non-edu), Harvard, Lincoln Lab at MIT, Stanford, UIUC, CWRU, CMU, and NASA (Ames) (non-edu).
- Berkeley
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Berkeley.edu. University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley CA 94720, USA.
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One of the original four sites that formed ARPANET. Bill Joy and others created BSD Unix while at Berkeley.
- Cambridge
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Cam.ac.uk. University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1TN, UK.
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Bob Metcalfe who founded 3Com in 1979, taught at Cambridge.
- CMU
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CMU.edu. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA 15213, USA.
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Does the PSC.edu (Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center).
- CWRU
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CWRU.edu. Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA.
- Dartmouth
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Dartmouth.edu. Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, USA.
- Harvard
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Harvard.edu. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
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Two big boys a Microsoft, Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates went to Harvard. Scott McNealy who founded Sun got his BA at Harvard. Marvn Minsky, big AI dude, got his BA at Harvard.
- Iowa State
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IAState.edu. Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA.
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John Atnasoff built the first automatic digital computer (the "Atanasoff-Berry Computer") with Clifford Berry at Iowa State from 1939-1942
- MIT
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MIT.edu. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
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Laboratory for Computer Science at MIT is headed by Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web. Marvn Minsky, big AI dude, teaches at MIT. Fernando J. Corbató led at team at MIT that created the Multics mainframe. Leonard Kleinrock, who helped develop the ARPANET in response to Sputnik, got his Ph.D. at MIT. Richard Stallman quit working at MIT and initiated the open source movement using "Copyleft" and the GNU GPL. Ray Tomlinson, who created the first e-mail program in 1972, graduated from MIT. Richard Bolt, Leo Beranek, and Robert Newman co-founded BBN in 1949: they were all MIT folks. Lincoln Laboratory at MIT.
- Pittsburgh
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Pitt.edu. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA, 15260.
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Does the PSC.edu (Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center).
- Princeton
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Princeton.edu. Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.
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SRI (Stanford Research Institute) broke away in 1970 to become SRI.com. One of the original four sites that formed ARPANET.
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Marvn Minsky, big AI dude, got his Ph.D. at Princeton. John von Neumann, computer pioneer, was a professor at Princeton.
- Stanford
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Stanford.edu. Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
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Bob Metcalfe who founded 3Com.com in 1979, taught at Stanford. Scott McNealy co-founded Sun while getting his MBA at Stanford. Andy Bechtolsheim, who also co-founded Sun, architected the original Sun workstation while working on his Ph.D. thesis at Stanford in the late 1970s. Len Bosack and his wife Sander Lerner developed the first commercially successful network router while at then went on to found Cisco. Doug Engelbart and his team invented the computer mouse at Stanford. Bob Metcalfe who founded 3Comin 1979, taught at Cambridge.
- UCLA
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UCLA.edu. University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
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One of the original four sites that formed ARPANET. Leonard Kleinrock helped develop the ARPANET and he made UCLA the first node on ARPANET in 1969. Vint Cerf, who co-invented the TCP/IP protocol with Robert Kahn in 1973, worked on the ARPANET at UCLA.edu from 1968-72.
- UCSB
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UCSB.edu. University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA.
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Don't know why I listed these guys!
- UCSD
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UCSD.edu. University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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NPACI.edu (NSF Partnerships for Advanced Computational Infrastructure).
- UH
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Hawaii.edu. University of Hawai'i, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA.
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Norm Abramson developed the ALOHAnet at UH.
- UIC
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UIC.edu. University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA.
- UIUC
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UIUC.edu. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
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Marc Andreessen, who heads Netscape and co-founded it in 1994, created the NCSA web browser while at UIUC. NCSA.UIUC.edu (The National Center for Supercomputing Applications at The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).
- UM
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UMich.edu. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
- Utah
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Utah.edu. University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA.
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One of the original four sites that formed ARPANET. Alan Kay, who co-founded PARC.Xerox.com, developed the first graphical object-oriented personal computer to get his doctorate at Utah in 1969.
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