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Tuesday, March 05, 2002
http://www.techreview.com/articles/qa0302.asp Planet Internet - Interview with Larry Smarr, Technology Review, March 2002 It would be hard to find anyone in information technology with the track record of Larry Smarr. In 1985, he launched the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, a federally sponsored research facility, where he led the development of what would become today’s Internet backbone. Years later he worked with a then unknown student, Marc Andreessen, to develop and commercialize the technology that would jump-start the Internet revolution: the Mosaic Web browser. Now Smarr, perched in a seventh-floor office overlooking a eucalyptus grove on the University of California, San Diego, campus, directs the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology. His is one of four state institutes set up last year to foster collaboration among government, industry and academe and spur advances in information technology, biotech, nanotechnology and the Internet—helping ensure California remains a high-tech powerhouse....
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