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Founding NCSA director Smarr reminisces

Celebrating 25 years of NCSA

Celebrating 25 years of NCSA

NCSA's founding director, Larry Smarr, who now leads the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), spoke via a live video feed at a 25th anniversary celebration on March 2. Reminiscing about the spirit of exploration and innovation that NCSA embodied from its earliest days Smarr said, "I guess nobody said we couldn't do it...We were allowed to dream."

Posted: April 12, 2011
Talk given: March 2, 2011

Running time: 7:35
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