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When Bob Doran and I published a paper entitled The Other Turing Machine in 1977, I didn’t realise that it would become a recurring theme in my life. Although one of the main reasons we picked the topic was the lack of funding in New Zealand for more concrete research, it turned out to be an important publication. Interest was growing in documenting the history of computing before too many of the pioneers died, and we were the first to dissect Turing’s work as a computer designer. Coincidentally, Simon Lavington, my Ph.D. supervisor in Manchester, wrote two books about the early history of computers in the UK. Eventually, a dedicated journal, Annals of the History of Computing, was started, and computing history became a recognised area of scholarship.
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But less so than the British became during the 2012 Olympic Games in London.
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I was later appointed Professor.
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The word operator is used for any organisation that operates its own network, whether an enterprise or an ISP. The words carrier or provider are roughly synonymous with ISP.
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Don’t take that too literally. The Internet is not organised geographically; the view of the world that BGP4 provides is based on the network’s own layout of long-distance links, which often diverge from geographical or political connections.
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Carpenter, B.E. (2013). Going Under. In: Network Geeks. Copernicus, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5025-1_11
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