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August 14, 2023

Heritage Project — How the net was won

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Douglas Van Houweling and Eric Aupperle led a group that submitted a proposal to the National Science Foundation to upgrade the agency’s overloaded computing backbone. When the group learned their proposal was accepted in 1987, one of the members said, “I think this is going to change the world.”
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