DETROIT – In this Internet Advisor podcast, Joe Sawasaky, President and CEO of Merit, reminisces about the remarkable history of this pioneer organization and the new directions in which it is heading. Also on the show, William J. “Joe” Adams, PhD, talks about Merit’s R & D program aimed at performing ground-breaking research that would benefit Merit’s Members, Michigan and the society. The group currently focuses on Internet measurements that provide insights into the evolution of the Internet and the adoption of new protocols, on network security, and on the development of tools that can help network operators better monitor and secure their networks. Cyber Ranges are the new thrust of Merit and Joe will detail how they are helping private and public sector groups beat the bad guys at their own game.
MERIT And The Founding Of The Internet 50 Years Ago
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About the Author: Foster Braun
Foster Braun has been co-hosting the Internet Advisor on WJR since early February 1998 except for a short time in early 2000. He has been in the Detroit radio market since 1975 where he has worked talk shows for most of his career and started with WJR in 1996. Since 1998 he has gained enough knowledge of computers to ruin some really fine machines and then fix most of them with the help of the other Internet Advisors. In 2008 he crossed over to the Dark Side and started worked exclusively on a MacBook Pro laptop. His wife Ginny uses a Windows PC laptop running Windows 10; so Foster finds himself doing tech support in both worlds! Foster identifies himself as “the voice of the listener” sometimes fighting through the geek-speak to explanations that even he can understand.
