- Ed Krol
Ed Krol was the network manager at the
National Center for Supercomputing Applications and the former assistant director of Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services (CITES) at theUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign . He is also the author of The "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet " and "The" "Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog ".Background
Krol was born August 21, 1951, and raised in
Chicago ,Illinois . He received his B.A. from the University of Illinois and spent his entire career there.NCSA and NIS
In 1985, he began working at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. Indeed, "Ed Krol was the network manager for the NCSA when the contract was received to establish the
NSFNet , and led the team in the network development" [http://www.livinginternet.com/i/ii_nsfnet.htm] . During this time, he published (through funding by the "National Science Foundation "), the 1987 popular user's guide "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet ". In 1989, he became the assistant director for Network Information Services, Computing and Communications Service Office, University of Illinois.In 1992, he published the popular user's guide to the Internet, "The" "
Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog ", which was noted by theNew York Public Library as one of its "Books of the Century" in 1995. [http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-oreilly10-2008oct10,0,7602348,print.story] [http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/events/booklist.html]Works
*"The Whole Internet: The Next Generation" (1999)
*"The Whole Internet for Windows 95" (1995)
*" [ftp://nic.merit.edu/documents/fyi/fyi20.txt "What is the Internet?"] , with E. Hoffman (1993)
*"Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog " (1992)
*"Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet " (1987)ee also
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History of the Internet External links
* [http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/catalog/view/au/365?x-t=book.view Biography]
*" [http://www.news.uiuc.edu/II/02/1107/krol.html Krol takes time for self, travel and volunteering during retirement] "
* [http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/events/booklist.html New York Public Library, Books of the Century]
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