BBN digest Published for BBN Employees

Cambridge, Massachiisells October 1994

BBN Celebrates the Current this month 25th Anniversary of the ARPANET to BBN Celebrates the 25th Anniversary of the On ihe weekend of September 10, BBN hosted a celebration ARPANET. BBN hosted a celebration to honor recognize the achievements and honor the group of people those who developed the ARPANET 1 who envisioned and eleveloped the ARPANET, the that was the predecessor to the . The celebra An Interview with 4 tion, called “The History of the Future: ARPANET, Internet ... Nearnet Becomes Subsidiary of New BBN ISC. and Beyond,’’ comprised several events. With Nearnet^^' and Barrnet^^', BBN has further Among the activities were a press reception on Friday afternoon in secured its position as a leading provider of Internet the Copley Plaza Bar for members of the press, attended by a rep services on both coasts 7 resentative group of the “pioneers,” who worked on the original Affirmative Action at BBN. The company is ARPANET project and on the development of computer networles; working actively on developing its affirmative a gathering at 6 p.m. in the Venetian Room of the Co])ley Plaza for action programs a larger group of the ]:)eople who developed computer networking; a BBN Open House at 150 CambridgePark Drive on Saturday, Voice Commands for Traffic information. BBN Sept. 10, with technology demonstrations, to which press and pio has teamed with SmartRoute Systems to provide a neers were invited; and a gala reception and dinner in the Grand service that allows users to give voice commands Ballroom of the Copley Plaza on Saturday evening, attended by for traffic information 9 more than 350 people, including members of the press, pioneers, BBN Staff News. Employee Anniversaries, Ungar and others associated with computer networking around the world. Receives Award, Papers and Publications, New Friday Press Reception Principal and Division Scientists and Engineers, SDP Publications and Patent Awards 10 At the Friday reception, BBN President and CEO George Conrades briefly described the ARPANET project and the puipose of the silver BBN Reports 13 anniversar)' celebration. Steve Le\y, chainnan of BBN’s board of BBN Business News. BBN Names Fjeldstad to directors, then introduced about 15 of the ARPANET founders to Board. STD Introduces an Internet Server for School the press. Networks. TotalView'^^’ Multiprocess Debugger Among those introduced from BBN were Frank Heart, recently re Available for Alpha AXP Workstation. BBN Internet tired from the presidency of BBN Systems and Technologies Divi Services Corporation subsidiary formed. Expansion sion, who was the principal investigator on the .ARPANET project; of Nearnet to . Barrnet Acquisition Ben Barker, then a hardware engineer at BBN responsible for Merges Internet Services on Two Coasts. New designing the hardware interfaces on the original IMP (Interface Training Group/Services. John Kish Named Head Message Processor), and for installing the first IMP at UCLA, and of SPC. RS/1® Release Enhances External Interface. now a senior vice president and chief technolog)^ officer at BBN; MicroNova electronic GmbH to Distribute and Dave Walden, then a member of the ARPANET team and one BBN/Probe Software. LightStream CEO Appointed of the three computer programmers on the project to develop the a VP of BBN. LightStream, BBN, and NEC to IMP, and now a senior vice president at BBN.(Names of current 14 Expand ATM Relationship and recent BBNers appear in bold in this article.) Julie Donahue Named CEO of New Several of the pioneers and a few members of the press gave brief BBN HARK Systems Corporation... 16 spontaneous talks at the Friday press reception, describing their impressions of the early days of netw'orking and the importance of networking today. Other pioneers introduced included , (continued on page 2) Conneclware, Inc. Bob Taylor, llien Di rector of ARPA’s computer research pro gram and initiator of ARPANET research, is now director of Digital Ec[uipment Corporation’s Systems Research Center at Palo Alto, CA. Barry Wessler, part of the ARPA development team, was cofounder of Telenet Communications Coiy?. and NetExpress, and is now CEO of Plexys international in Herndon, VA. Among others currently at BBN who were early contributors to networking technology are Jerry Burchficl, Will Crowlher, Ken Pogran, Alex McKenzie, Tony Michel, Bob Thomas, and . Tomlinson developed the first electronic mail that could work across many computers in a network, and is now a Principal Scientist at BBN. A number of other BBNers who were in Tlic “IMP guys” ill 1969. Top row: Ben Barker. Second row (I to r): Truett Tkach, Bill Barlell, Dave volved with the ARPANET in its earliest Wrtfdcii, Jim Geismnn, Bob Kahn, Frank Hcarl, Marly Tliropc, Will Crawtlici; mid Severo Ornstciii. years attended the 25th Anniversar}' events, as did many people working at , Truett Thach, and Marlin , responsible for the hard ARPA at the time, or located at one of the Thrope, all of whom were in the original ware and software connections of the original ARPANET sites, or who were at “IMP guys” photo, taken in 1969. first ARPANET computers, is now vice BBN at the time but then went elsewhere. president of Trusted Information Sys (See photo of original ARPANET team in Kahn, a co-author of the TCP/IP protocol, tems. Doug Engelbart, an innovator in 1969 for some of the original ‘dMP guys”; was the founder and is now president of human/machine interaction who is cred see photo taken on Sept. 9, 1994 for a the Corporation for National Research ited with inventing the mouse, is now “recreation” of the original team photo.) Initiatives. Ornstein, who was respon director of the Bootstrap Institute in sible for the ARPANET network hard Fremont, CA. Dr. Engelbart spoke on the Some of the press who accepted invitations ware component, was the founder and is Thursday before the weekend events in to the 25th anniversar)' celebration were now chairman of Computer Professionals BBN’s Guest Lecturer series. from the Boston Globe, Computer World, for Social Responsibility. Truett Thach, Global Nehvork, Injowoiid, PC Week, Net who helped test and install the first IMPs, Len Kleinrock, who developed the basic work Computers, Newsbyles News, The New is now director of Quality and Manufac principles of network communications York Times, and Reuters, among others. turing Engineering at ACC Systems in and was Principal Investigator for the Santa Barbara, CA. ARPA project at UCLA, the site of the Technology Day first ARPANET node, is now chairman of BBN held a Technolog)' Open House in Roland Biyan, , Steve Crocker, UCLA’s Computer Science Department connection with the celebration of 25 Doug Engelbart, Len Kleinrock,John and chairman and CEO of Technology years of innovation in network communi Postel, btriy Roberts, Bob Taylor, and Barry Transfer Institute. John Posiel, a member cations, on Saturday, September 10 from Wessler were also introduced. Bryan, then of the ARPANET programming team at 10 a.in to 2 p.m. at 150 CambridgePark a principal investigator at the University of UCLA, is now associate director for net Santa Barbara, CA, one of the original four Drive. They showed six presentations, working at the University ol Southern nodes of the ARPANET, is now president and provided bus ser\'ice from the Copley . Larry Roberts, then Director and CEO of ACC Systems. Vint Cerf, a Plaza to the demo site. Brief descriptions of the Information Processing Techniques of the demos follow: co-author of the TCP/IP protocol, is now Office for ARPA and known as the man senior vice president of data architecture who made the ARPANET happen, is now • Cornerstone Data Analysis Software at MCI Communications Corp. and presi president of ATM Systems, a division of (BBN Software Products Corp.): dent of the Internet Society.

Page 2 Cornerstone integrates the key func included demos of both current and • BBN’s Network Operations Center tions required to perform exploratory future technology capabilities, focus (NOC)(BBN Internet Services Corp.): data analysis in an easy-to-use “point ing on projects for the financial and This demo showed how BBN’s Network and click” desktop application. travel industries. The demo concluded Operations Center proactively moni Cornerstone was designed for a client/ with a glimpse at the world’s first tors, troubleshoots, and solves prob server computing environment, where large-vocabulary speaker independent, lems on the Internet, one of the most a user working at a desktop computer continuous speech dictation system. complex networking environments in or workstation can analyze data pulled existence today. The NOC provides • Personal Internet Newspaper—Finding from a database on another computer. services for business, educational, and and Organizing Information on the Inter The demo showed the use of Corner research organizations that depend on net (Distributed Systems Dept., BBN stone to analyze network performance. the Internet for their work. Systems and Technologies Division): • LightStream 2020—Perfect Vision for The BBN Personal Internet Newspaper Saturday Dinner ATM Migration (LightStream Corp.): is designed to help people manage the The presentation discussed how to mi flow of information available on the At the dinner on Saturday, September 10, more than 350 people crowded into the grate to Asynchronous Transfer Mode Internet from email, bulletin boards, bar next to the Copley Plaza grand ball (ATM) networks and provided an and on-line databases. It helps users room for drinks and hors d’oeuvres and overview of the LightStream'*’'^ 2020 select what interests them from the sea a chance to see old friends. Many of the Enterprise Switch, an optionally fault- of possibilities and organize the mate pioneers had not seen each other for tolerant modular device. The switch rial into one unified, automatically many years, Vint Cerf noted, although offers sophisticated bandwith manage generated digest. The demo showed they have kept in touch through email. ment and congestion avoidance features how this is done within the open that enable customers to reduce their architecture of the World Wide Web, Then the guests, who had come from all over the United States and from many operating costs without compromising thus integrating and adding value to foreign countries, moved into the ornate the quality of service. the collection of rapidly evolving tools for the Web that facilitate information gold-and-white ballroom for dinner. • BBN Internet Server—Bringing Internet creation, publication, discovery, and Power to the Desktops of Students and United States Rep. Edward Markey gave presentation. a keynote speech of appreciation for the Teachers (Educational Technologies (continued on page 4) Dept., BBN Systems and Technologies Division): BBN is working with schools worldwide to incorporate internet working as a constructive and creative tool for learning and teaching. The schools are supported by the BBN In ternet Server* a complete hardware and software package that is easy to manage from a desktop personal com puter. Children and educators use tra ditional Internet services such as email and newer interactive and hypermedia services such as Gopher and World Wide Web in their projects. This demo included remote visits to students and teachers using the Internet Server. • BBN Speech Recognition Technology— Present and Future (BBN Hark Systems Corp.): This demo highlighted the BBN Hark Systems Corporation’s speaker-independent continuous The “IMP guys” in 1994. Top row: Ben Barker. Second row (I to r): Truett Thach, Dave Walden, speech technology. The presentation Bob Kahn, Frank Heart, Marty Thrope, and Severe Ornstein.

Page 3 (continued from page 3) Video Presentation years ago,” noted another student. “I would like to thank the founders of the computer pioneers. “Fm only an expert Next, the audience saw a state-of-the-art on the information highway in compari video presentation featuring interviews ARPANET. Even to think of making a son to other congressmen,” said Markey with many of the pioneers. The presenta computer network then, they must have “but look around you in this room. You’ll tion showed still photos of the founders been geniuses.” This video presentation will be shown in Newman Auditorium see that it’s filled with daunting genius.” at work 25 years ago, film footage of sig Governor Weld declared September 10, nificant current events of the time, and and copies are available in the BBN Library. 1994 “Communications Networking Day,” videotaped interviews conducted with Awards and Speeches celebrating Massachusetts as a world the ARPANET pioneers this year. The leader in computing and networking. presentation provided a lively history of Vint Cerf briefly reminisced about the the growth of computer networks from pioneering days of networking, before he Steve Lev)' read a letter of congratulation the ARPANET to the Internet, conclud presented awards for their service to the from President Bill Clinton, which said ing with interviews of a group of school- Internet community to Bob Braden of in part, “Bringing together visionary in children giving their views on using the use Information Sciences Institute, and dividuals from every area of society, the Internet. Lyman Chapin and Steve Kent of BBN. ARPANET project stands as a testament to He also called his wife up to the podium the brilliant achievements that can result In their interviews, several kids said that and gave her a hug, because the day of when the public and private sectors work they are much more interested in using the dinner was their 28th wedding anni together for the common good. As one of the Internet than their parents, who pre versary. Then Steve Levy introduced the millions of people around the world fer using the phone or watching TV, Frank Heart, who walked to the podium who stays in touch through the Internet, although they try to teach their parents to strains of the song, “You Gotta ITave I extend gratitude and deep admiration to how to use the new technology. One boy Heart,” and gave a speech analyzing why the pioneering scientists who have made said he likes to use the Internet because the ARPANET project was so successful. computer networking a reality.” it lets him talk to all his friends at once, (See the interview in this issue for some instead of only one friend at a time. “Most of the reasons.) ■ people didn’t even have computers 25

An Interview with Frank Heart At the Systems and Technologies Division’s and data in binary, via toggle switches, New Year’s Lunch on June 30, 1994, BBN and the machine took up two very large President and CEO George Conrades rooms. I’ve been lucky, because very few announced that Frank Heart, President of people get to ride technology rockets, Systems and Technologies and a senior vice and I’ve had two chances. The first was president of the corporation, was retiring being in at the very beginning of the on July 31 after 28 years at BBN. Follow computer era and getting to watch it be ing is an interview Frank gave to the BBN come a major industry. And then I had a Digest. second crack, with the ARPANET. Q: What was your background before Q: You mentioned that you had worked you came to BBN? on the SAGE system at Lincoln Lab. What was SAGE, and when did you go A: When 1 was a graduate student in to Lincoln Lab? engineering at MIT I worked on Whirl wind, which was a computer on campus A: I’m also lucky because I never had to there, in the late 40s, about 1949. When apply for a job in my life. When I was a I first worked there, the machine had 32 graduate student working on Whirlwind, registers, and you entered instructions the Air Force had just asked MIT to build

Page 4 a system to protect the country from air cessful,” in my engineering sense. “Suc that with our electronic mail you could raids, and that air defense system was cessful,” to me, means something that work across a multiplicity of computers called SAGE. The air defense people gets out into the field and works for real in a network. stumbled on Whirlwind just when it users. The project never became a work Q: How did the ARPANET evolve into needed to be stumbled on, and eventu ing system at Mass General, but it was a the Internet? ally most of the Whirlwind team was seedground and catalyst for many other transferred to Lincoln Lab, a research lab projects around the country. A: After seeing how the ARPANET of MIT supported by the government. worked, many groups around the world For the next year and a half (1967-1968) After a while, my office moved from the built networks and then began connect I worked on various projects along with campus to Lincoln Lab in Lexington, and ing them together. Then people worked the Hospital Computer project. Then, I continued to work on the SAGE system. on connecting them in an orderly way, in mid-’68 the ARPANET project came and eventually the TCP/IP protocol suite Q: How did you come to BBN? on the horizon, and the contract was and other protocol suites were developed, awarded to BBN on January 1, 1969. A: I went to a summer conference at and BBN participated in the development Recently, 1 found Hawley Rising’s copy Woods Hole which was being run by the of such interconnection protocols. And of the original RFP and proposal, with director of Lincoln Lab, on “Intrex,” then, in recent years, network growth the names of the people involved in the which was a study of how to use technol around the world exploded. proposal. And many of them are still in ogies and computers to make a difference in how libraries work. At the conference volved with BBN. (Hawley, who helped Q: What made the ARPANET project run the proposal in the beginning, died work so well? I became friendly with Danny Bobrow earlier this year, not long after he retired from BBN, and I subsequently heard A: There were many factors. At BBN we from BBN). Severo Ornstein was in charge about a possible need at BBN for addi had a very small, very talented group; the of hardware design, and Will Crowther tional help with the Hospital Computer hardware guys could program and the and Dave Walden were in charge of soft project. This project was started by Jor software people knew a lot about hard ware design. Dave is still here, and Will dan Baruch, a very charismatic technolo ware. And the other groups around the is at LightStream. Bob Kahn, who was gist who later became Assistant Director country who participated in the network another key member of the design team, of the U.S. Dept, of Commerce. BBN tried were the cream of the technological crop eventually left to go to ARPA. But a lot of to capitalize on this project by making an of the day. the original group stayed. arrangement with G.E. to set up a com Also, it was crucial that Larry Roberts, at pany called Medinet, and as part of this Q: So the ARPANET marked the begin ARPA, had cognizance of the activities plan,Jordan was to run Medinet for some ning of networking? both of the user groups and the network period. So BBN needed help to run the A: The ARPANET was the first packet builders. There was a strong yet informal Hospital Computer project. When I came switching network that was at all “real.” group at ARPA that directed the develop to BBN it was being run by Paul Castle- In England, the National Physical Lab ment activities. man, who looked twelve at the time. He had a test network, and there were other probably wasn’t twelve, but he looked It was also important that BBN placed great computer-to-computer connections in twelve, and he had been left to cope with existence. But the ARPANET was the emphasis on reliability. That was one of NIH, Mass General, and an assortment of our strengths, and has been all along. For clear rootstem of networking as we know strong-willed people both at these orga example, the first IMP was ruggedized it today. It was the first actually useful nizations and at BBN. physically, and it had a watchdog timer to packet network. Labor Day of 1969 was So BBN extracted me from Lincoln Lab the first installation of the ARPANET. restart the machine if the program went wild, and the equipment was expected to to take over that part of BBN. With great Q: Did we invent electronic mail at BBN? run unattended, with no use of buttons or trepidation I left Lincoln Lab after 15 knobs locally. It was in a solid case that years (I have lots of trouble making A: Yes, Ray Tomlinson did, in the early was hard to tamper with. This kind of major life changes.) I came to BBN in 1970s. That is, we “invented” email in thinking about reliability was partly a December 1966, in time to help the Hos the networking sense. There were ways legacy of the project group from my prior pital project through its terminal illness. before then that you could leave mes experience at Whirlwind and Lincoln sages for someone else within an indi The Hospital Computer project was quite Lab, where Jay Forester was very insistent vidual computer. The distinction was important, even though it wasn’t “suc- on the importance of reliability issues. (continued on page 6)

Pages (continued from page 5) Q: But ARPA wasn’t so military, was it? for cutting-edge R&D. It’s a circle: good Q: How about some of the other major people lead to good research funding, A: Well, it varies. Many parts of ARPA, activities at BBN? How did the company and good research funding leads to more and many people at BBN, have always develop while you were here? good people being interested in working been interested in trying to create dual- here. A lot of our success with funding A: BBN started as a consulting organi use systems, and under the Clinton ad agencies has been a function of the spe zation. In a very real sense BBN hired ministration dual use is much in vogue. cific people we have working here. We people and told them to go make a living. Q: What were some other major projects are one of the few profit-seeking compa What gets done here, or at least what used at BBN? nies with ARPA support over the years. to get done here, was strongly a function of what good people wanted to do. For A: Well, there was Prophet, one of our Q: What’s your feeling about BBN’s future? example, there was an Education group longest running contracts. 1 was involved A: I’m going to hold on to my stock! here, with Wally Feurzeig, when I arrived, with that in its early years. RS/1® grew and there’s been one ever since. I encour out of Prophet, and Software Products Q: Do you have any concluding remarks aged people to do what they wanted to Corporation grew out of RS/1. you’d like to make? do, if they could make money at it (or at I also believe that BBN (and I) made a A: Throughout my career here, the place least not lose too much). It was kind of significant and rather unpublicized con has been the people. BBN has been largely the “let the many flowers grow” philoso tribution with the Pluribus multiprocessor; successful in selling its R&D because it phy. Therefore, we have an organization BBN hasn’t received the credit it deserves has been successful in finding, retaining, in which many people are working on a for this. It was built with the goal that it stimulating, and supporting very high broad range of technologies. BBN is less was necessary for the ARPANET, but Bob quality people. I’ve loved working with focused than many organizations, and Kahn, then at ARPA, realized that it was the people here, and I hope to be able to while there are negative attributes to lack an important technical advance with continue my relationship with them. ■ of focus, there is also strength and resil more generic applications than just this ience in diversity. We have also found that network application. We didn’t get pub it is far easier to move from an existing lic acclaim for the multiprocessor revolu activity to a new one that is “close” in tion that is still taking place, but the some senses, rather than making a large Pluribus was a very important machine. jump to a wholly new area. Network monitoring and management Also, BBN is mostly pretty careful about has also been a major activity here. who it hires. It tries to hire quite good Q: Can you describe the evolution of people. It has a strong group of employ BBN’s organization, from a single company ees, and we are fortunate to be located a to one with divisions and subsidiaries? bike ride away from Harvard and a bus- ride away from MIT. The turnover has A: Well, I’ve managed to survive a surfeit been very low in the organizations I su of BBN reorganizations, centralizations, pervised. Many people are still here from decentralizations, and recentralizations the time of the ARPANET—McKenzie, over the years, and I’ve continued to sup Walden, Barker, Crowther—and many port good people and keep a strong R&D people who leave come back- -Some- group. Conrades and Levy both like to times after only a week! quote me as saying that “in a real com pany the product sales support the R&D, Q: It sounds like there were lots of connections and interactions between but in this company the R&D supports between ARPA and BBN. the product activities.” Of course it would be nicer if the company could A: Well, as an example, BBN formed send money in the other direction. Telenet Corporation as a direct outgrowth The chief way to keep the R&D part of of the ARPANET, and hired Larry Roberts the company healthy is to be able to con from ARPA to run it. Maybe that’s an ele tinue to attract quality staff and funding ment of “the military-industrial complex”!

Page 6 Nearnet Becomes chusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was designed to provide access to super Subsidiary of New BBN ISC in 1989 to support the research and aca computer centers through regional com demic communities, to strengthen the re puter networks. These national and local Thefollowing article describing Nearnet gional competitiveness of New England, events formed the impetus for creating is adapted in partfrom an article that and to meet a growing need for fast, reli the New England Academic and Research appeared in the July/August 1994 issue of able information exchange. BBN has op Network (Nearnet). the NSF Network News. erated Nearnet since its inception. Nearnet’s Member Organizations Following its August 1994 acquisition of In June of 1988,James Bruce, vice presi Nearnet currently provides Internet ac the Bay Area Regional Research Network dent for Information Systems at MIT; cess in , Maine, Massachu (Barrnet^“) from Stanford University, Stephen Hall, director of the Office of setts, New Hampshire, Newjersey, New BBN has further secured its position as Information Technology at Harvard; and York, , and Vermont. Its a leading provider of Internet services. John Porter, Vice Provost for Information membership has diversified over its five- The acquisition consolidates two of the Technology at Boston University, began year history to include many of New nation’s major Internet service providers: to discuss linking their three campus England’s universities, colleges, technol BBN’s NearneU’’^ operation, which pro computer networks together. They were ogy-based industries and Fortune 100 vides Internet access, integration, con approached by Mark Pullen of the De corporations, as well as government and sulting, security, and training services fense Advanced Research Projects Agency private agencies. The Boston Globe has for organizations in the Northeast, and (DARPA), who requested that the new recently become a Nearnet member, as Barrnet, the leading provider of such ser network include Internet access for sev have organizations such as Hewlett- vices in the San Francisco Bay Area. eral local research and development sites Packard, Ziff-Davis Publishing Company that were losing their ARPANET connec BBN has created BBN Internet Services (through Ziff Information Services), and Corp.(BBN ISC) to operate the newly tivity because of the decommission of the law firm of Hale and Dorr. the ARPANET. consolidated companies and aggressively In response to demand for mission-critical expand their geographic coverage both These companies included BBN, Digital Internet services for businesses, BBN re within the United States and internation Equipment Corporation (DEC), Encore, cently expanded Nearnet services to New ally. BBN ISC also plans to broaden the Lincoln Laboratories, MITRE, and Think York and northern Newjersey. The ex range of services it offers its customers. ing Machines. During this time, many or pansion into New York positions BBN to To maintain the strong local organiza ganizations losing their ARPANET access take advantage of the large financial ser- tions that are responsive to customers’ were migrating to the NSFNET, which regional needs, BBN has created two re (continued on page 8) gional subsidiaries: BBN Barrnet Inc. and BBN Nearnet Inc., each of which will have its own directors, officers, and staff. Growth “This arrangement offers us the checks and balances we will need to think 313 325 u globally, but act locally,” says BBN ISC ■K 300 president Dick Edmiston. 263 k275

BBN ISC currently has an executive 260 214 search under way for an experienced, 225

200 marketing-oriented CEO, a position cur 160 rently being filled by acting CEO Steve 175 Levy. Meanwhile, the entire BBN ISC op 130 eration—including BBN Nearnet’s Net 125 96 work Operation Center and staff—has 100 moved into a new and expanded facility 75 52 at 150 CambridgePark Drive. >:• 50 / 33 15 25

A Brief History of Nearnet : 0 . A|^l • Oct . ' ApnT ' Oct .A .;!; Aprtt Oci April: / Oct' Oet ■ ' ■ April Nearnet was created by Boston Univer 89 90 m 92 g3' 94 sity, Harvard University, and the Massa iinssi

Page 1 (continued from page 1) ing seminars. The seminars have included working on K-12 projects in their com vices sector and other opportunities there. speakers such as Mitch Kapor, founder munities or supporting K-12 organiza Nearnet’s member organizations currently and chairman of On Technology, Inc., co tions through partnership programs to include over one million people who ac founder and president of the Electronic provide access to the Internet. Further count for approximately 20 percent of the Frontier Foundation, and founder of the more, Nearnet has made arrangements total U.S. Internet backbone traffic. Lotus Development Corporation, and with member university systems to have Tracy LaQuey Parker, education devel those members provide K-12 access for Technical Support and Client Services opment manager at Cisco Systems, Inc. statewide projects. For example, the Uni Nearnet offers its member organizations and author of the bestseller. The Internet versity of New Hampshire (UNH) allows high-quality turnkey services to integrate Companion: A Beginners’ Guide to Global K-12 teachers participating in the New the Internet into their enterprise-wide Networking Internet Training. Hampshire State project to access the networks. Nearnet also provides ongoing Internet through UNH. In response to the overwhelming requests user and technical support so that mem from the Internet community for more Nearnet also connects K-12 organizations bers can get the most from their Internet Internet-specific training, BBN has directly. Several schools are currently connection. Nearnet reaches organizations created an Internet Training Group. In connected to Nearnet as part of Phase across New England, the New York met conjunction with the Nearnet staff, the One of the National Science Foundation’s ropolitan area, and northern Newjersey Training Group has begun offering train National School Network Testbed project. through established points-of-presence ing courses to the general public. (To find Nearnet donated communications equip (POPs). Nearnet staff provides technical out more about BBN’s Internet Training ment and created special membership support, consulting, and user information Courses, please send email to: net- arrangements, with reduced fees, for this services, and maintains a 24-hour-a-day, [email protected] or call 617-873-3282.) project. Nearnet also provides network 7-day-a-week, state-of-the-art Networks connection for schools as part of The Operations Center. Professional staff over Nearnet’s K-12 Activities Co-NECT School project, funded by the see the design, installation, operation, and An important part of Nearnet’s mission New American Schools Development performance of every Nearnet node. is to provide Internet services for the Corporation, a nonprofit corporation Nearnet’s Training and Seminars kindergarten through twelfth grade (K- established by American corporations Since Nearnet introduced its first user 12) educational community. Nearnet and foundations to support innovative currently allows its members to provide designs for American schools. B seminar in September 1989, thousands guest accounts to the K-12 community. of participants have attended the annual This arrangement enables members user seminars, mini-seminars, and train-

Affirmative Action at BBN tion BBN outlines its affirmative action but also on leadership training and profes plans for each upcoming year. sional development for staff. “We are BBN is working actively on enhancing its making an ongoing effort to give women Chris explains that we have always done affirmative action programs, encouraging and minorities the training they need to this kind of analysis to comply with fed diversity, and making more opportunities move into senior management and tech available for women and minorities at the eral requirements, but at the request of nical roles,” she says. Three major areas of company. The Human Resources staff BBN President and CEO George Conrades, recent affirmative action activities at BBN the company is making affirmative action want to keep people informed of BBN’s have been in college relations, internships current activities and efforts in this area. a heightened priority. “Our overarching concern is to be sure that we are as di for high school and college students, and identifying appropriate leadership and Chris Lancione, the Human Resources verse as we need to be, and to provide Representative for the Corporate Services professional development programs for for the development of all our employees BBN staff Division, prepares the affirmative action and ensure their ability to contribute to plan for BBN. She coordinates BBN’s af the company. We need to take action on College Relations firmative action efforts, and compiles several fronts, one of which is affirmative In working to establish relations with and analyzes statistical data about appli action,” says Conrades. cant flow—whom we interview, hire, and colleges, BBN has sent representatives to promote. On the basis of this informa- Chris notes that we are working not just recruit and to develop a presence at sev on recruitment of minorities and women. eral of the historically black colleges.

Page 8 including Hampton Institute, Howard ing may make them University, Morehouse College, Morgan stronger candidates. State College, and Spelman College. In all these ways, the relationship may One project that has grown out of the prove fmitful to both college relations effort is Tom Blackadar’s BBN and Morehouse. work with Morehouse College, a pre dominantly black, all-male, four-year internships liberal arts college located in Atlanta, GA. In his discussions of Tom, who is manager of the Systems and affirmative action, Technologies Division’s Hardware Devel Conrades has par opment and Manufacturing Department, ticularly stressed the knew that Boeing Computer Corporation Ginny Warn and Aqualyn Laury at work on a math resource guide. importance of reach in Seattle had donated to Morehouse one ing people early and of BBN’s GPIOOO™ parallel processing working with them until they are ready computers, and he offered to set it up for to support innovative designs for public to join BBN. The company participated schools.) This summer she worked on a them. In January 1994, the chairman of in several internship programs this sum math resource guide for teachers in the the computer science department at mer. The Human Resources group worked Morehouse told Tom they were ready to Co-NECT schools, and she has recently with the Teen Work Program, sponsored accepted a full-time position with the set up the GPIOOO. by Just-a-Start Corporation, to bring in Co-NECT group. After attending a BBN meeting at which summer interns from Cambridge. Just-a- Aqualyn, who comes from San Antonio, Conrades emphasized the importance of Start works with Cambridge Rindge and TX and had never been to the northeast making connections vHth minority col Latin School and others, supporting before this summer, says, “the Education leges, Tom visited Morehouse to help community programs and arranging for group at BBN is very nurturing. They’re them get their machine going. When he hiring minority summer intern students. learned that the GPIOOO will become one This summer BBN hired ten interns, open and accepting of lots of different of their primary machines for teaching seven of whom are minorities. ideas.” Of her educational experience at parallel processor programming, he of Spelman College, she comments, “There Aqualyn Laury, a recent graduate of were so many black female role models. fered to have BBN help Morehouse set up an educational consortium with about Spelman College, a predominantly black, It provided a great support group.” all-female four-year liberal arts college in Aqualyn is interested in learning as much twenty other schools using these ma Atlanta, worked as an intern in the Edu as she can at BBN. chines. BBN is now working on this cational Technologies Department this project, as well as offering faculty train summer. Aqualyn learned about BBN Leadership and Management Training ing courses on parallel processing at from George Conrades, whom she met at Morehouse. Along with minority recruiting and stu a conference at Spelman. She majored in dent internships, BBN must address leader While at Morehouse, Tom learned that mathematics, and she discovered that he ship training and leadership development, the college is committed to community too had been a math major as an under providing ways for its employees to grow involvement and to working with public graduate. When she told him she was in and advance within the company. “We schools. They expressed interest in talk terested in applied math and was looking know we have to work on this issue,” says ing with members of BBN’s Educational for opportunities in business, he men Conrades. “It’s important for BBN to be in Technologies Department about their tioned several possible opportunities to balance with the larger society and reflec K-12 educational activities. explore on the east coast, including BBN. tive of it, and for us to work on develop ing everyone to their full potential. We BBN has also been invited to help More Aqualyn took an internship working must do this if we want to remain an at house write grant proposals and to part with Bruce Goldberg and Ginny Warn ner with them on some of their projects. on the Co-NECT project. (Co-NECT is tractive organization to potential employ ees as well as potential clients. BBN’s training programs and their help a project funded by the New American with the computer and parallel comput Schools Development Corporation, a “We are fortunate to be able to turn to ing consortium will contribute to the nonprofit corporation founded by Lucie Ejeldstad, who was recently ap education of students who may eventu American corporations and foundations pointed to BBN’s board of directors. We’ll ally want to work at BBN, and their train- (continued on page 10)

Page 9 (continued from page 9) designed to promote and value diversity of thinking at BBN, For example, we are benefit from her extensive marketing and within our workforce, offering the lead now targeting a broader cross section of business development experience in in ership tools for our employees to be colleges to provide a greater number of ternetworking and multimedia-based ap successful as they grow with BBN. In highly qualified minority and female plications, areas of great importance to addition, the training group will serve as candidates,” BBN’s future. We’ll also benefit from her consultants and advisors, researching “The commitment is now here to change insight and guidance as we work on the and recommending appropriate courses the mix at BBN to reflect more accurately issue of developing women and minori and programs to meet specialized train the society at large,” Steve says. “We will ties to assume more senior positions.” ing requirements. be seeing additional emphasis placed on As one step in this direction, Don Batsford A New Way of Thinking each manager’s commitment to affirma tive action for women and minorities. of Human Resources is developing a pro Steve Heinrich, Vice President of Human The changes will be gradual, but we are gram that will identify the training needs Resources and BBN’s director of Equal of BBN through one-on-one interviews, trying to build a foundation for some Employment Opportunity programs, says, thing that will be self-sustaining.” ■ focus groups, and surveys. This will pro “Naturally things won’t change overnight, vide the basis for a training program but we’ve opened the doors to a new way

Voice Commands for be in areas related to Advanced Traveler for a specific route. For example, they Traffic Information Information Systems (ATIS), aimed spe can press 2 followed by the star key to cifically at reducing congestion. A key get traveler information for Route 2, the You may be one of the ten thousand ATIS service is providing detailed traffic Fresh Pond Parkway, and Storrow Drive. travelers a day who call 374-1234, information on demand. On a typical day, SmarTraveler fields SmartRoute Systems’ SmarTraveler Teaming with Cambridge-based 10,000 calls and has had as many as phone-in service for up-to-the-minute SmartRoute Systems, BBN’s Sensor 18,000 calls on days with poor weather. traffic information on your commuting Systems Technologies (SST) and Human- Drawbacks to the current touchtone route to or from work. If so, you’ll be interface are that the number of routes interested to know that BBN has added Computer Collaborative Systems busi ness units configured a phone access that can be accessed must be limited, so a new experimental feature to the sys demonstration system based on BBN’s that each route must cover a number of tem that eliminates the usual keypad Hark recognizer. Key BBN technical route sections, and that a driver must interface for specifying your route. contributors include Greg Duckworth, divert attention to the phone keypad to Now, thanks to an integration of the Scott Carlson, Kristin Kupres, and get information while en route. BBN Hark™ speech recognizer with the Bruce Papazian. Said Jack Heine, SST SmarTraveler audiotex system, you can The BBN speech recognizer prompts the Manager of Business Development, speak your route and get real-time trav user to speak a route request and will “Voice recognition as an alternative to eler information. recognize a specific route section, such telephone touch tones and kiosk key as “Fresh Pond Parkway,” without re This is the first speech recognition appli boards has tremendous potential for quiring the driver to understand or ac cation for any federally sponsored Intelli IVHS traveler information systems. We cess the higher level route architecture. gent Vehicle Highways Systems (IVHS) needed a real-time demonstration we Duckworth, the Systems Engineer for Operational Test. IVHS is sponsored by could access from everywhere in the this project, sees this as a promising op the Federal Highway Administration and country to get customers’ attention, and portunity to interest cellular telephone is aimed at reducing congestion, reduc the SmarTraveler system was a perfect companies, which now provide the opportunity.” ing the environmental impact of highway SmarTraveler service to their customers, vehicles, and increasing safety. IVHS is To access the touch-tone version of in supporting development of an an emerging industry with projected SmarTraveler, users dial 374-1234 and expanded multi-line capability using sales in the public and private sectors of follow instructions to use touchtones to multiple recognizers. more than $200B over the next 15 years. get up-to-the-minute traffic information More than half of that total is expected to (continued on page 12)

Page 10- BBN STAFF NEWS

Employee Anniversaries 5 Years Ungar Receives Gold Medal from ASME The following list includes anniversaries Steven Avruch Markutter McIntosh that have occurred from May 1994 through Dennis Berry Eric Ungar, a Chief Engineer at BBN Jonathan October 1994. Roy Booth and member of the Physical Scienses Steven Vanden McLaughlin 35 Years Business Unit of BBN Systems and Bosch Charles Miksis Technologies, has been selected by Preston Smith Edward Starr Kathryn Brennan Joseph Musacchia Maeve Brennan Patricia O’Donnell the Americal Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) to receive the 1994 30 Years Brian Brock Anthony Palazola Per Bruel Gold Medal for Noise Control Gregory Brown* Rose Marie Pascale and Acoustics. Douglas Steele Isidro Castineyra Terese Patterson Ana Cecilio Paul Placeway The Per Bruel Gold Medal, the preemi 25 Years Martin Clark Kelly Polisson nent medal awarded by ASME’s Noise William Coney John Price Howard Briscoe Control and Acoustics Division, is “for Anthony Michel Michael Corcoran Kristin Ragucci fundamental contributions to noise and Therese Cwikla Catherine Rocchio 20 Years Tony Davis Ira Scharf vibration control engineering involving Michael Beeler Richard Pew Leo Dopson Beverly Schwartz structural damping, vibration isolation, Joseph Dow Harold Shallman and vibrations of complex structures, as Bill Huggins Elaine Spiro Lisa Sebell Norman Westlake Beverly Duquette applied to aerospace vehicles, ships, ma Biagio Mitrano Laura Silvati-Fidell Rafal Mlawski John Eldridge chinery, and buildings.” Formal presen Peter Farina Janine Silver tation of the medal will take place at the Thomas Finn Man-Hung Siu 15 Years President’s Luncheon during the \¥inter Christina Fulkerson Karen Sivret Valerie Smith Annual Meeting of ASME November Hank Baig Michael Krasner Mary Galluzzo ■ Lenore Gauthier 1994, in Chicago, IL. Carl Cascio Carol Luddecke Lisa Giberti Smith Ruth Chatterton Elizabeth O’Neil Virginia Vik Solem Brian Donahue Edward Tkachuk Gosdanian* Donald Sutton Paul Horwitz Mark Whitney Jeffrey Granger William Harris Barbara Taylor Papers and Publications Kathleen Heidt Elizabeth 10 Years Leianne Imaoka Thoenen* Charlie Berger, Bob Blauth, Reinhart Richter, and Dave Walden from BBN Justin Aborn John Lowry Makiko Kamamoto Gary Torressen David Trasatti Josefa Alvarez Leslie Madden Theodore Krai contributed to a special issue of The Robert Bartlett Robert Masters Heather Lamarre Irene Walborsky Centerfor Quality Management Journal, Edgar Burkett John Miner Anne Teaman Guyton Watkins* vol.2, no. 4, Fall 1993. They are among Thomas Calderwood Priscilla Molea Vinh Luong Jane Wojcik the authors of a paper entitled “Kano’s Clive Wilmot Frank Cardillicchio John Montjoy Richard Lyons Methods of Understanding Customer- Rosemary Carter John Oliveira Robin Martin Jeffrey Zuccaro Defined Quality.” Alan Dahlbom Barbara Reisdorf A paper by Dave Walden, “Thoughts on Jeffrey Davis Michael Reynolds* ‘Denotes LightStream employee Heidi Dempsey Richard Rourke Goals and Metrics,” will appear in The Robert Fields Kenneth Schroder Centerfor Quality Management Journal, Jurgen Georgs* Varda Shaked vol.3, no. 1, Winter 1994, pp. 33-38. ■ Griffith Harrison Ronald Singleton David Johnston Kathleen Sullivan Kathy Kerby Julie Tiao* Francis Kubala Edward Vaccaro Donnalee Lane Ralph Weischedel Kenneth Likis Theresa Whitestone Martha Lillie John Wiggins* Susan LoPrete Robert Willis

Page 11 BBN STAFF NEWS

New Principal and Division Relativity to high-school and college Henry Olds earned an Ed.D, in children’s Scientists and Engineers students. He is currently principal language development from Harvard investigator for a project exploring University in 1968 and joined BBN’s The Science Development Program students’ difficulties in understanding Educational Technologies Department recognizes the outstanding technical genetics. This project is producing a in 1991. He is co-director of the accomplishments of some of BBN’s staff program called GenScope, an open- Co-NECT project, for which BBN is members by promoting them to the po ended, computer-based, exploratory using modern technology of many sitions of Chief, Principal, and Division tool that presents the complex processes kinds—computers and software tools, Scientist, Brief biographies of this year’s of genetics visually and dynamically and telephones, fax machines, video and appointees follow. makes explicit the causal connections teleconferencing, and local area net and interactions among them. works—to create a new approach to New Principal Scientists education. Dr. Olds is also co-principal Ralph Weischedel received a Ph.D. in Greg Duckworth earned an Sc.D. degree investigator of a new Teacher Enhance computer science from the University of in 1983 in electrical engineering and ment project funded by the National oceanographic engineering from the Pennsylvania in 1975. Before coming to Science Foundation to create “The BBN in 1984, he was a professor of Joint Program of MIT and the Woods Mathematical Inquiry Videotapes: Tools Hole Oceanographic Institution. In computer science for nine years. His for Professional Growth.” ■ research interests are in artificial intelli 1987, Dr. Duckworth joined BBN’s Un derwater Technologies Division and is gence, and, more particularly, natural language processing and knowledge rep currently in the Acoustic Sciences and Voice Commands Technologies Group. His primary focus resentation. Dr. Weischedel is currently the principal investigator for three con (continued from page 10) has been on the physical analysis of The current interface has been pilot underwater and noise-control acoustics tracts from ARPA: “Research in Auto mated Document Processing—TIPSTER tested by a group of SmartRoute and problems and the design and develop BBN employees. For the pilot test all ment of data acquisition, signal process Text Phase II,” “Language Modelling for Text Understanding,” and “HOOKAH.” calls are recorded and digitally stored ing, and control systems for application on disk for a subsequent Human Fac to these areas. Dr, Duckworth has re These contracts employ the use of proba bilistic algorithms and learning algo tors analysis. BBN is creating a database cently provided technical leadership for and maintaining a log of system outputs, the measurement of the scattering of rithms in linguistically motivated models of natural language text. The goal of the which will be reviewed periodically to low-frequency underwater sound inci assess the system’s effectiveness. The dents at the arctic ice canopy, and he approach is to process free text, such as system’s vocabulary will be expanded to has been involved with developing a newswire and technical abstracts, to up date a database automatically. new route segments based on results of high-precision-model and multiple- the assessment. sensor-location measurement systems New Division Scientists for a Navy test facility. SmartRoute Systems is very enthusiastic Ron Coleman received a Ph.D. in me about BBN’s speech recognizer, David Paul Horwitz received a Ph.D. in phys chanical engineering from North Caro Stein, Executive Vice President at ics from New York University in 1967. lina State University in 1984. He joined SmartRoutes, says that his company is At BBN he works in the Educational BBN’s Applied Physics Department in “ecstatic about the prospects for a voice Technologies Department, developing 1985 and has led several projects in the recognition traffic information system. new computer-based instructional tech field of active noise and vibration con We think it will be a big enhancement niques for physics and mathematics. Dr. trol. For the past five years, he has been to our product and will meet with ex Horwitz was a principal investigator of the project manager and lead designer treme favor among federal highway the National Science Foundation-funded for BBN’s development of the Advanced officials because it enhances safety and ThinkerTools Project, which has a Vibration Reducer (AVR). Dr. Coleman accessibility to traffic information.” curriculum and associated software to is currently managing the development teach Newtonian physics to sixth-grade of control algorithms for the General- BBN staff are invited to participate in students. He developed the award-win Purpose Noise-Cancellation Processor the voice recognition trial by calling ■ ning RelLab system for teaching Special (QuietChip). 494-9425.

Page 12 BBN STAFF NEWS

1993 SDP Publications and cations written by the following staff Madden,John McDonough, Kenny Ng, Patent Awards members; Marilyn Adams, Madeleine Long Nguyen, Robin Rohlicek, Richard Bates, Rusty Bobrow, Lyman Chapin, Schwartz, and Istvan Ver. In October 1992, BBN’s Science Develop Herb Gish, Paul Horwitz, Gregory ment Program (SDP), which promotes McDaniel, Craig Partridge, Subramanian Outstanding Publication Awards scientific and professional staff develop Ramanathan, Bruce Roberts, Robin The SDP has also established the Out ment at BBN, established a company Rohlicek, Richard Schwartz, Larry Sher, standing Publication Award, for publica wide incentive program that encourages Martha Steenstrup, Ralph Weischedel, tions that have appeared in print and staff to publish technical articles and and Ying Zhao. that a committee of senior staff have books as well as file patent applications. judged to be of high quality. The winners Patents Awards of the 1994 awards were Bruce Roberts, Publications Awards The committee gave cash awards for five for a paper in the area of computer and This year the Publications and Patents patent applications submitted by the fol communication sciences, and two young Awards Committee, chaired byjohn lowing staff: David Getty, Herb Gish, Bill authors, Subramanian Ramanathan and Makhoul, gave cash awards for 15 publi- Huggins, Philippe Jeanrenaud, Richard Gregory McDaniel. ■

BBN Reports BBN Report No. 7979, Research, Devel BBN Report No. 8000, MTAC Through opment, Training and Evaluation Sup put Investigation, Mary Akers BBN Report No. 7842B, Encryption of port (RDT&E), William Salter, Mark Asynchronous Circuits Using the KG- BBN Report No. 8002B, Integrated High Burstein, and David Getty 84A, Norman Westlake Performance Distributed System Soft BBN Report No. 7980, Evaluation of ware Design Document, Edward E BBN Report No. 7920, Advanced Net Subscriber-based Cost Recovery Model Walker work Management (ANM): User’s Guide for NIHnet, Cynthia Mills for ANM Release 5.43, BBN Network BBN Report No. 8004, Integrated High Services BBN Report No. 7982, Configuration of Performance Distributed System Soft the OCONUS Bulk Modems for DDN ware User’s Manual, Christopher Barber BBN Report No. 7921, Advanced Net Applications, Norman Westlake work Management (ANM): Installation BBN Report No. 8005, Integrated High Guide for ANM release 5.4, David BBN Report No. 7983, Toward a Meth Performance Distributed System Soft Waitzman odology for Defining Situation Aware ware Operator’s Manual, Christopher ness Requirements—A Progress Report, Barber BBN Report No. 7941, Development of Stephen E. Deutsch, Richard W. Pew, Instrument Approach Plate Display BBN Report No. 8008, Real-time Data William Rogers, and Yvette J. Tenney Technology to Support the Management Analysis and Acquisition Systems Soft of Approach Plate Information Study BBN Report No. 7990, Effects of Simu ware Design Document (and Appendi (MAPLIST), Nichael Cramer and Carl lated Sonic Booms on the Hatchability ces), Nancy Aramaki E. Feehrer of White Leghorn Chicken Eggs, Mat thew Sneddon BBN Report No. 7961, Research, Devel opment, Training and Evaluation Sup BBN Report No. 7996, Requirements for port (RDT&E), William]. Salter the Operator’s Assistant, Elizabeth Montanye BBN Report No. 7967, Reciprocity- based Experimental Determination of BBN Report No. 7998, Internet Traffic Dynamic Forces and Moments: A Feasi and Connection Analysis, Karen bility Study, Istvan Ver Mcllhenny

Page 13 BBN BUSINESS NEWS

BBN the National School Network Testbed, of fears about security and reliability of a partnership funded in part by the Na service. BBN ISC’s custom security ser BBN Names Fjeldstad to Board tional Science Foundation to develop vices and reliable support should go a In August, BBN appointed Lucie J. Fjeld and better understand technologies that long way toward convincing them that stad to the board of directors, filling a will support universal participation in their internal networks can remain se vacancy created by the departure ofJohn the National Information Infrastructure. cure. BBN ISC has also reduced its prices A. Gilmartin, who resigned to concen for its Internet services, in a bid for even BBN’s TotalView™ Multiprocess trate on other responsibilities. Fjeldstad greater market share. is president and CEO of Fjeldstad Inter Debugger Available for the Alpha AXP Workstation national, an independent consulting Barrnet Acquisition Merges Internet Services on Two Coasts group that advises corporate clients in TotalView^”—BBN’s fast, easy-to-use the computing, telecommunications, me- source-level debugger—is available for BBN has recently acquired the Bay Area dia/entertainnient, and consumer elec Digital Equipment Corporation’s Alpha Regional Research Network (Barrnet) tronics industries. AXP RISC workstation running the OSE/l from Stanford, which has served since operating system. With TotalView soft 1986 as the principal Internet service A veteran executive with more than 25 ware, programmers can view and debug provider in the San Francisco Bay area. years’ experience at IBM, Fjeldstad was all aspects of their applications—source, BBN’s extensive Nearnet service offerings also instrumental in negotiating strategic variables, and multiple processes—si and 25 years’ experience with network alliances for multimedia, creating inde multaneously. They can debug applica technology were cited as key factors in pendent business subsidiaries, and estab tions that run on multiple workstations, Stanford’s decision to sell Barrnet to BBN. lishing the company’s Internet strategy. making network distributed debugging a Barrnet provides Internet access to more BBN STD reality. than 200 leading San Francisco Bay Area BBN Introduces an Internet Server TotalView has a point-and-click interface, businesses and research, university, and for School Networks on-line help, and easy menus. It provides medical facilities, including Apple Com In June, BBN Systems and Technologies source-level debugging for C, C++, and puter, Hewlett-Packard, the NASA Ames unveiled the BBN Internet Server'^”, an FORTRAN as well as support for assem Research Center, four University of Internet server for school networks that bly and mixed source/assembler debug California campuses, and Stanford itself. is a complete, easy-to-use, hardware and ging. TotalView software requires no Barrnet also is a key part of the “Com- software package. This meets the current special make files and imposes no re merceNet” project, under which the fed demand for Internet access in K-I2 schools strictions on code or symbol table size. eral and state governments have provided due to current educational reforms. BBN Internet Services an SB-million grant to help Bay area busi nesses make commercial use of the Infor The product provides a full-featured, Corporation (BBN iSC) mation Superhighway. UNIX-based Internet server that teachers and students can use to construct and Recently BBN ISC has expanded its On the East Coast, Nearnet clients in Nearnet Internet services to the New manage their own network resources clude corporations such as Polaroid, York metropolitan area, lowered their from their desktop computers. The server Raytheon, and Lotus, as well as medical prices, acquired the Bay Area Regional facilities such as Massachusetts General supports a range of Internet services, and Research Network (Barrnet), and cre BBN offers any consulting and training Hospital, Beth Israel Hospital, and the ated a training group (see related story that the schools may need in site prepa Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Harvard, on Nearnet, p. 7). ration, establishing a full connection to MIT, Boston University, Yale, and Dart mouth also use Nearnet to access the an Internet service provider, configuring Expansion to New York Internet. personal computers to interact with the BBN ISC has expanded its Nearnet Inter Internet, managing the server, construct net services to the New York and north New Training Group/Services ing information resources on it, and ern Newjersey metropolitan area. There, planning end-user training. The BBN ISC Internet Training Group the financial services and publishing in offers a full range of Internet training The BBN Internet Server grew out of two dustries traditionally have been reluctant courses to help organizations make stra- years of research and development within to join the Internet community because

Page 14 BBN BUSINESS NEWS tegic business use of the Internet. The other external applications on remote working subsidiary—in February 1994, curriculum is open to the public, and and local computers. This new function will continue in that capacity. He has provides a key service for organizations ality facilitates RS/1 integration within a stated that one of his major goals is to wanting to maximize their existing Inter heterogeneous computing environment. make LightStream a leader in ATM switch net investments. It also makes BBN ISC technology and customer service (see RS/1 is one of the most widely used data the most complete Internet service pro profile in the May 1994 Digest issue). analysis software packages in manufactur vider, with programs ranging from net ing, engineering and research. RS/1 pro Already this year the company has sold work consulting and integration to Internet access services to business and vides statistical and analytic functionality seven of its LightStream’^“ 2010 Enter needed by technical professionals to solve prise ATM switches to Continental technical training. The BBN ISC Internet data driven problems. RS/Ts unique flex Cablevision’s New England division, en Training Group’s curriculum develop ibility and extensibility lets users develop tered into a distribution agreement with ment team includes Mary Cronin, author and share customized solutions across Japan’s NEC Corporation, and signed a of the best-selling book Doing Business technology licensing agreement with on the Internet. multiple computing environments. Tellabs Operations, Inc., a voice and data BBN SPC MicroNova electronic GmbH equipment manufacturer, to jointly de to Distribute BBN/Probe BBN Names John Kish Head of SPC velop and distribute ATM switching sys Data Analysis Software tems in the information-services market. In June, BBN Software Products Corpo MicroNova electronic GmbH will distrib ration got a new president and CEO in ute BBN/Probe^“ in Germany, Austria, LightStream, BBN, and NEC to John T. Kish, who also will serve on its and Switzerland. (The BBN/Probe group Expand ATM Relationship board of directors. He has also been has recently moved from BBN STD to BBN will enter a broad-based relationship elected a vice president of BBN. Kish BBN SPC.) The German company is the to jointly develop multiplexing products comes from Oracle Corporation, where first of several distributors expected to based on Asynchronous Transfer Mode he served as the vice president. Desktop sell the BBN/Probe product line interna technology with NEC Corporation and Division, and most recently as the senior tionally. BBN/Probe is the leading time- LightStream. NEC and LightStream plan vice president. Business Development. series, visual data analysis software for to jointly develop an ATM-based multi There he was instrumental in creating engineering data applications. plexing system. The partners expect the strategic development and marketing new multiplexing system to be used at partnerships with companies such as In addition to direct sales and system the core of new multimedia networks. Apple, British Telecom, Microsoft, Novell, integration, MicroNova will provide BBN/Probe software customers in the This agreement builds upon previously IBM, and Lotus, as well as strategic established relationships among NEC, alliances with Bell Atlantic and US West. German region with hot-line support, BBN, and LightStream. The addition of John Kish supports application consulting, and educational BBN’s overall strategy to enhance and services. In addition, BBN’s current Currently, NEC is reselling the expand worldwide sales and marketing German customers vHll benefit from Lightstream'^'“‘ 2010 ATM platform in capabilities. MicroNova’s experience and capabilities. Japan while LightStream resells BBN’s T/10™ Integrated Access Device. NEC RS/1 Release 5.0 Enhances LightStream and BBN are also considering expanding External Interface LightStream CEO Appointed their current relationship to include joint In September, BBN Software Products an Vice President of BBN product development in other areas. ■ nounced significant enhancements to its BBN’s board of directors elected RS/1® data-analysis software to improve LightStream CEO Jonathan Crane a vice integration with other applications and president of the company, making all data sources in a networked computing presidents of BBN’s operating units environment. The new Interprocess company vice presidents. Crane, who Communications Interface enables the was appointed president and CEO of exchange of commands, control, and LightStream Corporation—BBN’s Asyn data between RS-based applications and chronous Transfer Mode (ATM) net-

Page 15 Julie Donahue Named CEO of New BBN HARK Systems Corporation

On October 17, 1994, BBN announced from the University of Pennsylvania and delighted to announce the formation of the establishment of BBN HARK Systems an MBA from the Wharton School of BBN HARK Systems Corporation with Corporation, a new subsidiary, and Business Administration. Julie Donahue as its CEO. We believe named Julie Donahue as its chief execu that speech recognition will become a “I am very excited to join the BBN family tive officer. The new unit will develop very important interface between people of companies,” said Donahue. “BBN and sell BBN’s HARK™ line of speech and computers in the next few years. helped create the field of computer speech recognition products. Donahue was also BBN researchers have spent two decades recognition. BBN’s large-vocabulary, named to the board of directors of the developing outstanding speech technol speaker-independent, continuous speech subsidiary. ogy for government customers. With technology is the class of the field. I also Julie Donahue’s extraordinary business Donahue, age 35, was most recently see tremendous potential in collaborating development skills and her knowledge of president and chief operating officer of with the other BBN business units, with the industry, we intend to convert our Voice Processing Corporation, where she their leadership in computer networking technology leadership into commercial was responsible for establishing numer and distributed applications, to provide market success.” ous OEM agreements and for creating powerful solutions for customer needs. partnerships with such major desktop Among the customers for the new subsid “Our goal is to drive the mainstream application companies as Microsoft, iary’s HARK speech recognition products adoption of speech recognition among WordPerfect, Lotus, and Borland. are: Thomas Cook Travel, Bellcore, Booz users in telephony and desktop environ Allen Hamilton, Lawrence Livermore In her previous position, she was a se ments, through increased ease of use, Labs, Loral Federal Systems Company, nior vice president at Dun & Bradstreet higher quality, and flexible application Lockheed Sanders, Magnavox, Motorola, Software, responsible for strategic plan development. HARK’s new Release 2.0 Reuters, Speechcraft, Inc., Sun Micro ning, mergers and acquisitions, market makes new categories of form-filling and systems, UFA, Inc., Umecorp, and Volt ing, and channel development. She information retrieval applications pos Delta Resources. negotiated key business partnerships sible for the first time, including the with such companies as Microsoft, exciting new growth area of computer- An interview with Donahue will appear Powersoft, Hewlett-Packard, and Sybase. telephony integration.” in a future issue of the BBN Digest. ■ She has also held management positions at Cullinet Software and Motorola/Four Of the new subsidiary, BBN President and CEO George Conrades said, “We are Phase Systems. Donahue received a B.S.

BBN Digest The BBN Digest includes news from all divisions and subsidiaries of BBN, as well as corporate news. We welcome your suggestions and contributions. Please send photographs, news items, and suggestions for articles to Deborah Melone, by interoffice mail to Mail Stop 6/6a or by electronic mail to dmdone. Photographs can be in the form of negatives, black & white or color prints, or slides. This newsletter is published for BBN employees. We must be careful to avoid print ing items of proprietary interest either to BBN or to its customers. Therefore, please understand if we cannot use all items submitted. Also, please do not send the BBN Digest to anyone outside the company. The BBN Digest is edited by Deborah Melone, Cheryl Rohlicek, and Anne Wagner with help from many others. Printed on recycled paper.

Page 16