Elizabeth Feinler

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Elizabeth Feinler

Elizabeth Jocelyn Feinler (born March 2, 1931 in Wheeling ) is an American information scientist . She was director of the Network Information Systems Center at the Stanford Research Institute from 1972 to 1989 . Your group worked for the Arpanet , the forerunner of today's Internet.

Life

Feinler studied chemistry at West Liberty University in West Liberty, West Virginia and then received a PhD in biochemistry from Purdue University . She began as an information scientist at SRI International in Menlo Park, California in 1960 and became a member of Douglas Engelbart's Augmentation Research Center in 1972 . Here she wrote a manual for using the Arpanet. From 1974 to 1989 she was director of the Network Information Center (NIC). Her group developed the first Internet yellow and white page servers and the first query-based network host name and address server (whois server). From 1972 to 1989, her group ran the Host Naming Registry for the Internet and developed the top-level domain naming scheme of.com, .edu, .gov, .mil, .org, and .net. She then worked for Sterling Software Corp. as a contractor for the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View , California . Here she helped set up NASA Science Internet and Globe NICs, as well as developing and managing NASA's World Wide Web . After her retirement, she volunteered for the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, documenting the history of the Internet.

Honors

In 2012, Feinler became the first woman to be inducted into the “Pioneers” of the Internet Hall of Fame .

Fonts (selection)

  • Host Tables, Top-Level Domain Names, and the Origin of Dot Com. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 33 (3): 74-79 (2011)
  • The Network Information Center and its Archives. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 32 (3): 83-89 (2010)
  • NIC / QUERY, a Novice User Interface Program. Berkeley Workshop 1976

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personal data
SURNAME Feinler, Elizabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Feinler, Elizabeth Jocelyn (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American information scientist
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Wheeling