{"id":111,"date":"2009-10-18T17:41:14","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T01:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/?p=111"},"modified":"2025-12-15T20:03:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T04:03:46","slug":"bob-taylor-recognized-by-the-university-of-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/archives\/2009\/10\/18\/111\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Taylor recognized by The University of Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last month, Bob Taylor (the subject of a recent oral history<\/a>) was recognized by The University of Texas. Bob received the Graduate School Outstanding Alumnus Award, a $100,000 Presidential Endowed Fellowship was established in his name, and he gave the first in a series of lectures in the UT Graduate School’s Centential celebration. Since this is also the 40th anniversary of the first tests of the ARPAnet, it was a fitting time for Bob’s achievements to be honored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lecture was in the form of an interview by New York Times<\/em><\/a> technology reporter John Markoff, who noted:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Internet has many fathers, but few deserve the label more than Robert W. Taylor.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Authors M. Mitchell Waldrop (The Dream Machine<\/em><\/a>) and Michael A. Hiltzik (Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age<\/em><\/a>) shared their views as well. J Strother Moore and Gary Chapman (who each worked with Bob in the past and now have UT positions) served as masters of ceremony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The announcement<\/a> for the lecture includes links to news stories about Bob, as well as the famous 1968 paper by Licklider and Taylor, “The Computer as a Communication Device<\/a>“. The recap<\/a> of the lecture includes links to a video<\/a> and photographs<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Update<\/strong> 2024\/05\/08: Updated URLs via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine; the video and photographs appear to be lost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last month, Bob Taylor (the subject of a recent oral history) was recognized by The University of Texas. Bob received the Graduate School Outstanding Alumnus Award, a $100,000 Presidential Endowed Fellowship was established in his name, and he gave the first in a series of lectures in the UT Graduate School’s Centential celebration. Since this … Continue reading “Bob Taylor recognized by The University of Texas”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1379,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions\/1379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}