Elizabeth J. Feinler
Elizabeth J. Feinler is an information scientist, who was the director of the Network Information Systems Center at Stanford.
Elizabeth J. Feinler's main contribution to computer science was her creation of the naming registry for websites. This includes domains such as ".gov," ".com," ".edu," ".org," and more! She also is an esteemed person due to her work through ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), which helped shape the modern Internet. She had first begun working at the Stanford Research Institute International, and she helped maintain a directory for the whole network of computers through ARPANET. Through this institution, she was involved in multiple projects such as the development of a Resource Handbook. She was so successful that her team got $11 million in funding. Some of the minor projects she was involved in include running the network information center at the center, which developed the earliest internet search engines. In 1989, she left SRI to work for a different corporation. She also worked with NASA and helped develop the guidelines for a variety of NASA based websites.
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