| The Internet Archive gathers, stores, and allows access to all public information on the net (WWW, Gopher, netnews, and usage logs). The Archive will serve as historical record, a backup for dead sites, and a dataset for Internet research. The Internet Archive, organized as a commercial/non-profit combination, raises interesting issues in privacy, intellectual property, and architecture (faster pipes, cheaper storage). This talk will discuss the current state of the Archive and where it is going.
Brewster Kahle received his BSEE from MIT in 1982. He designed supercomputers at Thinking Machines Corporation in the 1980's. Later he invented the Wide Area Information Servers (WAIS) system and founded WAIS Inc., which helped bring commercial and government agencies onto the Internet. He founded the Internet Archive in April 1996. Catch the Archive Website at: www.archive.org |