Hmm. My memory is something like Universe having some meetings at
Cosner's, then Unison made them more of an annual event which got
"generalised" as Unison was coming to an end,
with various iterations in name.
Ian
On 29 Apr 2010, at 11:43, Peter KIRSTEIN wrote:
> In message <[log in to unmask]>you write:
>> Jon is right - there isn't a simple answer, the meeting evolved. And
>> David & Derek are also right about UNIVERSE & UNISON contributing
>> to the
>> origin.
>
> By the way, UNIVERSE was 80-85 and inolved UCL, RAL and Cambridge -
> but not ULCC - amongst others.
> ADMIRAL involved UCL and ULCC (and hence Joe Sventek) but not RAL
> and Cambridge, and so was less likely
> to meet in Coseners. I am not sure of the exact dates of UNISON,
> but it was probably also 84-88. Since it involved RAL, it was likely
> to meet in Coseners. Just occasionally there were joint meetigs,
> it was these that also met in Cosners.
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> Peter
>> Michael: I have in my archive (aka workshop) a printed proceedings
>> for
>> 1990 - but that may not be the first year we produced actual
>> proceedings. And I hadn't noticed the Chilton computing site had
>> put up
>> some details of UNIVERSE - pity OUP pulped the unsold copies of the
>> book
>> years ago :-(
>>
>> As some of you know, I'm in history mode at the moment, having just
>> finished the first draft of a history of JANET: so I'm doing a little
>> checking - i.e., enquiring of one or two of the others responsible
>> for
>> the earliest meetings. I'll get back to the list.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Chris
>>
>> Derek McAuley wrote:
>>> Previous to that was Universe - think it was 83.
>>>
>>> On 28 Apr 2010, at 16:13, David Parish wrote:
>>>
>>>> The Coseners meetings originated as the annual project review
>>>> meetings for the Alvey funded UNISON project around the
>> mid 1980's. When this project finished everyone thought that it
>> would be a good idea to have an annual networks meeting
>> in the Coseners House. I think this would have been the late
>> 1980's. It became known as NGN much later than this, I thi
>> nk around the early 2000's, but I may be wrong here.
>>>>
>>>> David
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Next Generation Networking [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>>>> Behalf Of Jon Crowcroft
>>>> Sent: 28 April 2010 16:06
>>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>>> Subject: Re: When was the first cosner's meeting
>>>>
>>>> In missive <[log in to unmask]
>>>> >, Ad
>>>> am Greenhalgh typed:
>>>>
>>>>>> Can anyone remember when the first cosner's NGN meeting was ?
>>>> Adam
>>>>
>>>> there isn't 1 answer - there's the NGNs since Ian has been running,
>>>> but there were the MSN meetings before which as far as I know went
>>>> back to the early/mid 1980s and evolved out of the Universe project
>>>> (Cambridge, UCL,, Loughborough, Logica and others)
>>>> and related work....
>>>>
>>>> cheers
>>>>
>>>> jon
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