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In this episode, Dr. Larry Press joins us to talk about his experience working with the early internet and his connection to several important moments in history. Listen to learn about his involvement in helping key people in the USSR send and receive information out of the country during the coup attempt of the early 1990s as well as several other significant events over the years.

Larry Press has worked in both industry and academia and has been on the faculties of the University of Lund, Sweden and the University of Southern California, as well as worked for IBM and the System Development Corporation.

He has consulted to over 40 industrial, government and non-governmental organizations including IBM, Apple, Philips, Sony, Hyundai, RAND, the World Bank, ITU, UNDP, USAID and UNCTAD.

Over the years, Dr. Press has worked on data processing, multi-processor operating systems, simulation, decision table translation, simulation of concept acquisition, multivariate data analysis, pattern recognition (discriminant analysis), study of problem solving behavior in executives, computer and network applications in education, computer art, teleconferencing, the history of computing and networking, local area networks, expert systems, software import/export, the study of the global diffusion of the Internet, enterprise networking strategy and applications, wireless networking, municipal networking, telecommunication policy, and IT literacy. He is currently creating a modular electronic text and just finished a study of the Internet in Cuba.

Dr. Press has been studying the global diffusion of the Internet, with an emphasis on policy and technology in developing nations, for over twenty years. He and his colleagues developed a framework to characterize the state of the Internet in a nation, and they, and others, have used this framework in many national case studies and surveys.

Larry Press

Professor Emeritus of Information Systems at California State University, Dominguez Hills

In this episode, Dr. Larry Press joins us to talk about his experience working with the early internet and his connection to several important moments in history. Listen to learn about his involvement in helping key people in the USSR send and receive information out of the country during the coup attempt of the early 1990s as well as several other significant events over the years. 


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