Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends. - Benjamin Disraeli 1804-1881
"Friends and Partners" was announced on the Internet on January 19, 1994, and has an interesting history. Below, you will find a list of links that will provide information on its initial history.
Please visit the new (February 9, 1998) F&P General Bulletin Board for questions, information and discussion about Friends and Partners -- current activities, and plans for improvements.
The final link is a complete paper that was given at the Internet '95 Conference and, perhaps, provides the most thorough overview of the motivation and implementation of this project.
The following are links to several stories and articles that have been published about Friends and Partners:
©1996 Friends and Partners
Natasha Bulashova, Greg Cole
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The "next generation Internet" is coming and promises a much richer
communications media. F&P is working with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) of the University of Illinois and
with colleagues at the Kurchatov Institute, Russian Institute for Public
Networking, the Joint Supercomputing Center and the Russian Academy of Science - to establish a high speed
(155M) Internet service between Russian and U.S. scientific communities. The
grant is funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation
and the Ministry for Science and Technology of the Russian Federation. Please read more
about the NaukaNet project at the NaukaNet WWW
site.
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