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Born on March 2nd
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She graduated from West Liberty State College with an undergraduate degree in chemistry
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She enrolled in Purdue University to study biochemistry, more specifically to work at Chemical Abstracts
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Since she was running low on money, she took a year off to work at Chemical Abstracts, the company she had wanted to work at
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While working there, she became interested in information management because the company was working on the Fifth Decennial Index
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While at a meeting of the American Chemical Society, she heard about a group that was being setup at SRI (Scientific Research Institute) which consisted of information experts, and decided to apply for it.
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She was declined for the group because there were no spots open, and she and her roommate decided to go on vacation to europe
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2 days before she was planning to leave for Europe, she got a letter from SRI saying that they had a job open.
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She relocated to California and entered Stanford Research Institute’s (SRI) Information department, and ditched biochemistry.
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She worked in the Information Research Center at SRI for 10 years.
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She became the head of the Information Research Center at SRI
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Someone she met at the IRC (Doug Engelbart) was working on his system (NLS) when he got a big project from DARPA and left to work on it
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She joined Doug in the project now called ARPANET, with plans to demonstrate it at ICCC (basically show and tell for internet related projects)
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While working on ARPANET, she was assigned to make a “Resource Handbook for the Internet”
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She went back to SRI to work on a project for the NIC (basically the infrastructure for the internet back then)
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She worked on the which was to convert everyone’s protocol suite to TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol)
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While working at the NIC, she and a couple of her coworkers came up with a text format for hostnames. This would prove important later.
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ARPANET became a split network of research and defence information. This was important as the NIC served as the backbone for it.
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Email was developed and the NIC started processing those too
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Elizabeth and her team shifted to working on the name project from before
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The name project was given the name “The Domain Name System”. This system was designed to streamline internet usage by processing each domain on separate servers.
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Her group became the naming authority of the internet. They managed the names of all top level domains (.mil, .gov, .edu, .org, .com, and .us)
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After doing a bit of work for NASA and some other small volunteer work, she published a history of the NIC, and has won many internet awards since.