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The Inventions of Louis Pouzin One of the Fathers of the Internet
This book recounts the adventures of Louis Pouzin who invented one of the core elements for transmitting data over today’s Internet, the datagram. He...
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The Quantum Internet Ultrafast and Safe from Hackers
The internet can look forward to a fantastic future! With new quantum technology, hacker-proof exchange of information and ultrafast data processing...
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Louis Pouzin’s “Retirements” (1993–Present)
In 1989, Louis joined Theseus, a management school for engineers and managers, in Sofia Antipolis. For 4 years, he taught computer and network...
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For Deeper Understanding
Quantum optical devices play a major role in quantum communication technology, particularly for QKD networks. To better understand their...
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The New Internets (2014–Present)
Louis is not particularly interested in money, even though he recognizes its usefulness—who wants to be poor? He hates the verbiage of communicators,...
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Recognition (2012–2015)
Louis has received numerous awards but the one from April 2012 stands out: it was granted by ISOC World and recognizes Louis’ lifetime achievement...
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Back to France (1966–1971)
Louis Pouzin became a great traveler: he journeyed back and forth between most European capitals (Rome, Stockholm, Berlin, London…) and the major...
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The American Years (1963–1965)
January 19, 1963. On a cold and snowy day, all alone, Louis Pouzin boarded a Boeing 707. Destination: The United States. He went to Cambridge, to...
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Early Career (1952–1963)
At the end of his military service in 1952, Louis Pouzin chose to return to civilian life, and began a career in industry. That was the year that the...
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The End of Cyclades (1980–1989)
In 1974, the Cyclades project network moved from the “model” phase to something concrete, operational. “Cigale then worked perfectly. But the French...
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The Quantum Digital Future
When the industrial revolution began about 200 years ago, it brought about global change. It came hand in hand with a profound transformation of...
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The Quantum Internet
The term quantum network (casually labeled quantum internet) refers to the networking of quantum information media via quantum channels. Quanta are...
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Internet Governance (2005–2012)
But the chiaroscuro of existence leaves room for all shades of opinions, from ISOC France, which remains true to its parent company (and therefore to...
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Louis Pouzin’s Youth (1931–1952)
Once upon a time there was a bright and clever child who had an atypical education within a modest family in central France, in the Nièvre...
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Epilogue
Yes, France is a nation of inventors, it is recognized as a center of excellence which has provided the world with some of the greatest scientists...
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The Plan Calcul (1971–1979)
In 1966, Charles de Gaulle, a former General who distinguished himself during the Second World War by leading the free France resistance from London,...
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Let There Be Light
Although visible and infrared light appear to behave very differently from more conventional radio waves, they are still part of the electromagnetic...
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The Hockey Stick Years
Cellular networks are now everywhere, but it took almost fifty years to get them from theory to a system that is used by billions of people daily....
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Traffic Jam Over the Equator
For high-bandwidth wireless intercontinental communications, there's only one viable solution: satellites.
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Highways in the Sky
Wireless technologies are not only for enabling communications: they play an important behind-the-scenes part in aiding millions and millions of...