Artifact Details

Title

Davidson, John M. interview

Catalog Number

102746647

Type

Document

Description

This interview covers John Davidson’s beginnings in the field of computer communications and networking first as an undergraduate student at Middlebury College in Vermont and then as a graduate student at the University of Hawaii where he worked with fellow graduate student Charles Bass on the ALOHAnet in 1968. During his graduate career he also served as the university’s liaison to the ARPANET Technical Working Group. After obtaining both his MS and PhD degrees from the University of Hawaii, he moved to Massachusetts in 1977 where he worked as Senior Computer Scientist at Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN). From BBN, Davidson was hired by Bass to work for Zilog, which he would subsequently leave in 1979 to work for the newly founded UB (Ungermann-Bass) Networks where he served as the Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Research and Development.

Date

1992-08-18

Contributor

Davidson, John, Interviewee
Pelkey, James L., Interviewer

Publisher

Computer History Museum

Place of Publication

Mountain View, CA, USA

Extent

26 p.

Format

PDF

Category

Transcription

Subject

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA); ALOHAnet; ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network); Metcalfe, Robert; Ethernet; Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN); Ungermann-Bass, Inc. (UB); TCP/IP; Zilog, Inc.; Estrin, Judy; Carrico, William N. (Bill); ZNet

Collection Title

James L. Pelkey collection : history of computer communications

Credit

Gift of James Pelkey

Lot Number

X5671.2010