Live Science

TCP/IP: What are the rules of the internet?

Internet Protocol (IP) and Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) are the languages computers use to communicate with one another, and they out the rules of the internet. TCP/IP makes the internet work a ...
The Conversation

What exactly is the internet? A computer scientist explains what it is and how it came to be

Fred Martin receives funding from the National Science Foundation and Google. The internet is a global collection of computers that know how to send messages to one another. Practically everything ...
mccormick.northwestern.edu

Re-architecting the Internet for Resilience and Survivability

The Internet has transformed dramatically over the past 50 years — advancing from a research-focused network primarily used in academia to the cyber-physical infrastructure foundational to modern ...
Inside Higher Ed

Computer Science’s Challenges, as Seen by Its Pioneers

HEIDELBERG, Germany—Every September, a critical mass of the world’s most decorated computer scientists and mathematicians gathers in the warm microclimate here. They discuss the states of their fields ...
Salon

How the Internet was created by government — not private — innovation

Residents of the United States are raised to hold two seemingly paradoxical beliefs: That the American nation’s greatest contribution to humanity is its supposedly free form of government — and that ...