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Photo of video conference between Beijing and Silicon Valley for the opening of the conference with Xu Rongsheng (on left) and Les Cottrell (on video screen to the right) sharing reminiscences of the setting up of the Internet link between China and the US |
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1994 paper on Networking with China
Other Information
- "Bringing the Internet to China", essay by Les cottrellCottrell, Symmetry magazine volume 02, issue 09, November 2005.
- "Contributions of HEP to China Internet" (mainly in Chinese), Rongsheng Xu, Aug 25, 2006.
- "IP Telephony and the Internet: China Case Study"
- I put together a Powerpoint presentation to capture my thoughts in preparation for the China 2.0 meeting, October 2010.
- YouTube Video prepared for the China 2.0 meeting.
- Blog from Marc Musgrove of Cisco following the meeting.
- Pioneers of China's First Internet Connection Recall Work, from PC World 10/18/2010; also carried by Computer World, ITWorld, Yahoo News, SiloBreaker, Stanford among others.
- In the News: Pioneers of China's First Internet Connection Recall Work from SLAC Today 10/20/2010.
- China's father of the Internet tracks changes, from China daily 20th October 2010.
- First email link to China
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Les had a call from the SLAC guard gate to say he had a visitor. The guard was unable to pronounce his name, so he spelt it. Les immediately recognized at as Gheng Zheng Guo Rui. Zheng had been visiting Silicon Valley with his daughter and son in law Andy Song and by chance spotted the SLAC sign. They thought it would be nice to look around and drove in. Les invited them to come to his office. There was just Andy and Zheng, Zheng's daughter was shopping at the Stanford Shopping Center. They soon got to reminiscing the days in 1991. Les found some old photos taken in 1971 and the recent YouTube Video. The photos are shown below.
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