How to stand on the shoulders of giants

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VanJacobson“...is said to havesaved the Internetfrom collapsingdue to trafﬁc in1988-1989”- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Jacobson

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“The whole ﬁeld had suffered blinders; in some sensesearch really did need two people who were nevertainted by people like me to come up with that shake up”– Amit Singhal, Bell Labs

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Image CreditsSkater http://www.flickr.com/photos/eyedeaz/5004084713Martin Richards http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mr10/Ken Thompson http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/picture.htmlDennis Ritchie http://www.bobdbob.com/hcc/halloffame/halloffame.htmlRasmus http://www.flickr.com/photos/wafer/365664702/Zeev & Andi http://www.flickr.com/photos/sebastian_bergmann/52408671Lorna http://www.flickr.com/photos/myrtti/6052575049Clock http://www.flickr.com/photos/indraw/4857101224TBL http://www.flickr.com/photos/tanaka/3212373419Turing http://www.flickr.com/photos/thurm/1554383213

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How to stand on the shoulders of giants

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