Louis Pouzin
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Louis Pouzin (born 20 April 1931) is a French computer scientist. He designed a pioneering
This network was the first actual implementation of the pure
Biography
Louis Pouzin was born in
Having participated in the design of the
Working with Glenda Schroeder and Pat Crisman, he also described an early
From 1967 to 1969 Pouzin developed one operating system for
Pouzin directed the pioneering
He co-founded the International Network Working Group at a computer networking conference he organised in Paris in June 1972 and was instrumental in developing the groups' ideas.[13][14][15][16] He was acknowledged by Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf in their seminal 1974 paper on internetworking protocols, "A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication".[17]
In 2002 Pouzin, along with Jean-Louis Grangé, Jean-Pierre Henninot and Jean-François Morfin, participated in the creation of
In November 2011, he founded Savoir-Faire, an alternative root company, with Chantal Lebrument and Quentin Perrigueur.[19][20]
In 2012 he developed a service called Open-Root, which is dedicated to sell top-level domains (TLD) in all scripts outside of ICANN. This way people can develop second-level domains for free.[21]
Awards
- 1997 – Pouzin received the ACM SIGCOMM Award for "pioneering work on connectionless packet communication".[22]
- 2003 – Louis Pouzin was named a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor by the French government on March 19, 2003.[23]
- 2012 – Pouzin was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame by the Internet Society.[24]
- 2013 – Pouzin was one of five Internet and Web pioneers awarded the inaugural Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering.[25]
- 2016 – Pouzin received the Global IT Award.[26]
- 2018 – Pouzin is promoted Officer of the Legion of Honor[23]
See also
- Internet in France
- Internet pioneers
- Protocol Wars
- Rémi Després
References
- Economist Group, December 13, 2013,
Mr Pouzin created a program called RUNCOM that helped users automate tedious and repetitive commands. That program, which he described as a "shell" around the computer's whirring innards, gave inspiration—and a name—to an entire class of software tools, called command-line shells, that still lurk below the surface of modern operating systems.
- ^ "The Origin of the Shell", Multicians, accessed 31 March 2012.
- ^ Pat Crisman; Glenda Schroeder; Louis Pouzin. "Programming Staff Note 39, 'Proposed Minimum System Documentation'" (PDF).
- ^ "The History of Electronic Mail". www.multicians.org. Retrieved 21 August 2017.
- ^ S2CID 201795798.
- ISBN 978-3-319-39626-2.
- ^ Grangé, J. L. (2012). Oral history interview with Jean-Louis Grangé by Andrew L. Russell.
- ^ "Say Bonjour to the Internet's Long-Lost French Uncle". Wired. 3 January 2013. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
- ^ Comment j’ai inventé le Datagramme
- ISBN 978-0-262-51115-5.
- ^ Pelkey, James. "6.3 CYCLADES Network and Louis Pouzin 1971–1972". Entrepreneurial Capitalism and Innovation: A History of Computer Communications 1968–1988.
- ISBN 9781135455514.
- ^ Pelkey, James. "8.3 CYCLADES Network and Louis Pouzin 1971–1972". Entrepreneurial Capitalism and Innovation: A History of Computer Communications 1968–1988.
- ISBN 978-0-684-87216-2.
- ^ Andrew L. Russell (30 July 2013). "OSI: The Internet That Wasn't". IEEE Spectrum. Vol. 50, no. 8.
- S2CID 206443072.
- ISSN 1558-0857.
The authors wish to thank a number of colleagues for helpful comments during early discussions of international network protocols, especially R. Metcalfe, R. Scantlebury, D. Walden, and H. Zimmerman; D. Davies and L. Pouzin who constructively commented on the fragmentation and accounting issues; and S. Crocker who commented on the creation and destruction of associations.
- ^ http://www.eurolinc.eu/
- ^ Lebrument, Chantal; Louis, Pouzin (January 13, 2012). "Les Nouvelles Root de L'Internet". Archived from the original on February 22, 2014. Retrieved February 17, 2022.
- ^ Savoir-faire biographies - http://old.open-root.eu/decouvrir-open-root/biographies/
- ^ http://open-root.eu/
- ^ "Postel and Pouzin: 1997 SIGCOMM Award Winners", ACM SIGCOMM web site
- ^ a b "Décret du 31 décembre 2018 portant promotion et nomination".
- ^ 2012 Inductees, Internet Hall of Fame website. Last accessed April 24, 2012.
- ^ "2013 Winners Announced" Archived 2017-01-02 at the Wayback Machine Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering.
- ^ "Louis Pouzin" Global IT Award.
Further reading
- "The internet's fifth man". Economist. 13 December 2013. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
In the early 1970s Mr Pouzin created an innovative data network that linked locations in France, Italy and Britain. Its simplicity and efficiency pointed the way to a network that could connect not just dozens of machines, but millions of them. It captured the imagination of Dr Cerf and Dr Kahn, who included aspects of its design in the protocols that now power the internet.
- Russell, Andrew L.; Schafer, Valérie (2014). "In the Shadow of ARPANET and Internet: Louis Pouzin and the Cyclades Network in the 1970s". Technology and Culture. 55 (4): 880–907. S2CID 143582561.
- Soyez Fabien, Lebrument Chantal (2020). The Inventions of Louis Pouzin - One of the Fathers of the Internet. Berlin: Springer. ISBN 978-3-030-34836-6.