Peter James Denning is an American computer scientist and writer. He is best known for pioneering work in virtual memory, especially for inventing the working-set model for program behavior, which add
(by Louis Fabian Bachrach)
The National Science Foundation Network was a program of coordinated, evolving projects sponsored by the National Science Foundation from 1985 to 1995 to promote advanced research and education networ
Peter J. Denning
…CS community network that by 1986 included 165 sites and 50,000 users. CSNET was the key transitional stepping stone from the original ARPANET to the NSFNET and then the Internet. In 2009, the Internet Society awarded CSNET its prestigious Jon Postel award, recognizing its key role in bridging from the…
NSF's three-tiered network architecture
NSFNET Traffic 1991, NSFNET backbone nodes are shown at the top, regional networks below, traffic volume is depicted from purple (zero bytes) to white (100 billion bytes), visualization by NCSA using traffic data provided by the Merit Network.
Packet Traffic on the NSFNET Backbone, January 1988 to June 1994
New network architecture, c. 1995