Network
From Institute of Intermedia
[1]network
visualisations
Maps, flow charts
The pioneering research of Paul Baran in the 1960s, who envisioned a communications network that would survive a major enemy attacked. The sketch shows three different network topologies described in his RAND Memorandum, "On Distributed Communications: 1. Introduction to Distributed Communications Network" (August 1964). The distributed network structure offered the best survivability.
ARPANET grew rapidly as more sites are connected. The map above shows the situation in September 1979.
linked data forms a network that is visualised in the form of dots and lines. There are numerous similarities between Baran’s original models and the working principle of computer networks and the semantic web. For example, in the digital computer system, the message is chopped into packets as an encoding process and distributed to the network to be reassembled (decoded) and interpreted (inference) as a complete language. In the semantic web, the message is encoded according to specific ontology, and the machine will decode the message according to syntax specified by XML or RDF and infers the propositions to arrive at a solution
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