Cisco Systems to Fund USC Computer Lab

By Karen Kaplan

June 23, 1999 12 AM PT

Cisco Systems will fund a $1-million computer-networking research laboratory in memory of Internet pioneer Jonathan Postel at USC’s Information Sciences Institute in Marina del Rey. Cisco Chief Technology Officer Judy Estrin will announce today at the Internet Society’s INET ’99 conference in San Jose the formation of the Jon Postel Center for Experimental Networking, which will open in the fall. The endowment will enable ISI, Postel’s longtime employer, to host a visiting scientist and a graduate student each year for five years. Postel, who ran the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority and conducted computer network research during his 21-year tenure at ISI, died in October.

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Karen Kaplan

Karen Kaplan covers science and medical research for the Los Angeles Times. She has been a member of the science team since 2005, including 13 years as an editor. Her first decade at The Times was spent covering technology in the Business section as both a reporter and editor. She grew up in San Diego and is a graduate of MIT and Columbia University.

Cisco Systems to Fund USC Computer Lab

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