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UCLA commemorates 35 years of the Net

The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science will be celebrating the 35th anniversary of the first Internet message today with a symposium.

Many of the Internet’s initial pilots will be there to speak and offer opinions on how the Internet came to be what it is now, and what it will be like in the future.

Google Inc.’s CEO Eric Schmidt and UCLA computer science Professor Leonard Kleinrock will be present “A Conversation with Eric Schmidt and Leonard Kleinrock.”

On Oct. 29, 1969, the first Internet message was launched by a team of engineers led by Kleinrock.

“There was no record of this event, and there wasn’t even a good message prepared; when it happened we realized it was a great experiment,” he said.

The first message was “lo” since they had been trying to “log” when the other computer crashed.

“I imagined great things, but I never imagined my 97-year-old mother would be using it. I never envisioned it as people talking to each other, I only saw computers talking to each other,” he said.

Sponsored by Broadcom, Cisco Systems and NetZero, the symposium speakers will analyze the four sides of the Internet.

They will address issues such as the Internet’s role in today’s technologically advanced society. They will also address the second issue of the social, political and educational implications of Internet globalization.

Other issues they will address are those of emerging applications of the Internet, how that changes the way youth use it, and its future.

The event will be held in the Northwest Campus Auditorium from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Wanted teenager caught

LOS ANGELES — Sheriff’s deputies arrested a 17-year-old boy for allegedly causing $200,000 damage to public buses by scrawling his moniker on buses in at least 130 acts of vandalism.

The teenager, arrested Wednesday, was one of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s most wanted taggers.

Last year, removing graffiti from buses and trains cost the agency $7.8 million, up from $5.7 million the previous year.

With reports from Bruin wire services and Youmi Chun, Bruin Science & Health contributor.