[Air-l] germane name dropping

[Barry Wellman]

I just came from lunch with Vint Cerf, who as much as anyone can be
considered the father of the Internet.

(Don't believe me: as they would say on the new version of Laugh-In,
"Look it up in your Wikipedia").

I apologize to the list, but I didn't have the guts to ask him to define
the Internet, even though we have been hotly debating it.

Part of the reason is that the lunch (with 4 other computer scientists)
didn't go in that direction. Vint was deeply interested in the kind of
work that AoIR social scientists have been doing, and in particular
(although this may be politeness) in our NetLab's stuff on network size
and the dearth of online-only ties.

What a day! Vint Cerf for lunch, and seeing Barbra Streisand in concert
tonight! It hasn't been as good as this since the Blue Jays won the World
Series in 1993 (and I got to see Devon White's triple play)!

 Barry Wellman

PS: A free cappucino at an AoIR conference if you can tell me (in private)
which social scientist dated Streisand in high school (Not me, alas).

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