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Subject: IP: REMINDER for NY IPers Dave Farber, streaming: www.wbai.org Wed. 31.I.2001 8pm_EST
Mike Radow <---> mradow@inx.net >Professor David J. Farber will be a guest on a popular computer show, on >an NYC public radio station. > >Yes: The station _does_ stream its audio. > > >Excessive details follow... ;-) > >-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > >Some readers may not be familiar with...: > > D. J. Farber, Ralph E. Griswold, I. P. Polonsky: SNOBOL, A > String Manipulation Language. jACM V.11 N.1: 21-30 (1964). > > /* If you've access to an academic library, it's still worth reading.*/ > > >This seminal citation is given since the same David J. Farber will be on >the radio. He is scheduled to be a guest on "The Personal Computer Show", >on New York City's WBAI-FM, 99.5_MHz. This will be next Wednesday eve. > > >/* A very short description of this program is at...: > > Linkname: The Personal Computer Show WBAI > > URL: http://www.pcradioshow.org > ... */ > > > > >>---> WBAI-FM provides full-time streaming audio. > > This program is 8-9pm _EST_, weekly. <----<< time > > The interview is Wed., Jan 31, 2001. <----<< date > > * The program _always_ takes listeners' calls, > * _including_ Internet phone calls: A rare shot! > > >The streaming audio _link_ is on...: > > Linkname: WBAI 99.5FM > > URL: http://www.wbai.org/ <----<< URL > > >Important notes: 1. You must be running _at_least_ RealPlayer version 7.0 > > 2. Be _sure_ to _pre-test_ WBAI _days_ in advance! > Expect to diddle, before getting things to work OK, > since many technical things at WBAI can be flakey. > > N.B. ...: 3. The streaming provider, porus.com , has been known > ^^^^ to get _maxed-out_ on ports, preventing listening: > > Be _sure_ to attach _well_before_ 8pm_EST_. > - > This popular program is chatty, semi-technical, > and has a _large_ worldwide audience: You're warned! > > > 4. Consider taping the program, if possible. > > > Non-USA only: > 5. If you are outside of the USA and not sure about > the correct time offset, WBBR-AM is _another_ NYC > station. WBBR is all "news" and it _reliably_ streams > its audio. It _also_ gives the _local_time_ > _frequently_. (So you don't tune in an hour late...) > > They stream at...: > > http://www.bloomberg.com/wbbr/live/live1.ram > > _If_ the default streaming speed will _not_ work for > you, select the alternate from their audio page: > > Linkname: Bloomberg.com: Bloomberg Radio > > URL: http://www.bloomberg.com/radio/radio_pop.html > > Then, look for the options *_only_* at...: > > /\/\ > Launch Live Bloomberg Radio > Breaking news 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. > \/\/ > > /* The other WBBR feeds do *not* give local time. */ > >- - - - - - > > > >Background...: > > 1. Most recently, David Farber has been the FCC's Chief_Technologist. > + > Please see this story and _its_links_, for his resume, etc. ...: > > Linkname: FCC Names David Farber Chief Technologist, 1/5/00. > > URL: http://www.techlawjournal.com/telecom/20000107.htm > > >! >! 2. There are many anecdotes about his hands-on technical prowess. >! + > For example, see this quite remarkable recollection, from c.'64...: > > Linkname: Interesting People (199911): IP: 34 years ago! > > URL: http://www.interesting-people.org/199911/0013.html > > > > 3. His ``Farberisms'' are legend, with examples at...: > > Linkname: Farberisms > > URL: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~farber/farism.htm > > > > 4. A short resume is at...: > > Linkname: Background -- David J. Farber > > URL: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~cisfac/farber/farber.html > > > > 5. His homepage is at...: > > Linkname: macpond > > URL: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~farber/home.html > > >- - - - - - - - - - > >Unfortunately, the following (fascinatingly prescient) article is not on >the Web, at least not that I could find. Readers with access to an >academic library are referred to...: > > The Convergence of Computing and Telecommunications Systems, > D.J. Farber and P. Baran, SCIENCE, vol. 195, pp.1166-1170, 1977. > -- > Also published in #5 of the AAAS Science Compendia, 1978. > > >Note: After c.1966, when David Farber left BTL for Rand, it would _seem_ > that both Baran and Farber were at Rand. If so, it's likely that > they knew each other, interestingly fore-shadowing the above-cited > article. It might also go pretty far to answering _that_ question > of "Who really _did_ `invent the Internet'?" ;-) > > > >/* A short `aside' on "P. Baran"... > + > "P. Baran" is Paul Baran, generally credited as the inventor of packet > switching, while he worked at Rand. See his early design overview, at: > > Linkname: On Distributed Communications: > - > Introduction to Distributed Communications Network > - > MEMORANDUM RM-3420-PR AUGUST 1964 > > URL: http://www.rand.org/publications/RM/RM3420/ > > ...and... > > Linkname: On Distributed Communications: > - > Summary Overview > - > MEMORANDUM RM-3767-PR AUGUST 1964 > > URL: http://www.rand.org/publications/RM/RM3767/ > > - -- - -- - -- - > Paul Baran has started numerous successful companies, including > highly-visible Metricom...: > > Linkname: Metricom - Home > > URL: http://www.metricom.com > > Metricom's best-known product is likely "Ricochet". For readers -- > probably not in the USA -- unfamiliar with it, Ricochet is described at > a link on the above URL...: IMHO, it is impressive! > + > Richochet is mentioned just to bring things _full-circle_: <---<< > > David Farber is a member of Metricom's technical advisory board. > > For details, please see...: > > Linkname: Metricom - Press Release May 30, 2000 > > URL: http://www.metricom.com/news_events/ ...glue_onto... > > media_center/press_releases/2000/news000530.htm > > ... */ > >- - - - - - - > >With all this teasing: > > I hope that many readers will listen to this interview, > with one of SNOBOL's original designers and developers. > >/\/\/\ > [ At BTL he helped to create ] ... a popular computer language > called SNOBOL. It was so called because, as Farber tells it, > one day he blurted out in frustration that there wasn't > "a snowball's chance in hell" of finding a good name for it. >\/\/\/ > -- http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~farber/philly.htm > + > Philadelphia Inquirer, 19 Sept 1996 >Mike >- >- >And a 100KB pix of DJF, at `work'...: > > http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~farber/peoscn.jpg >- >- >Mike Radow <---> mradow@inx.net For archives see: http://www.interesting-people.org/ For archives see: http://www.interesting-people.org/
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