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38-599: The Tanglewood Music Festival is a music festival held every summer on the Tanglewood estate in Stockbridge and Lenox in the Berkshire Hills in western Massachusetts . The festival consists of a series of concerts, including symphonic music, chamber music, choral music, musical theater, contemporary music, jazz, and pop music. The Boston Symphony Orchestra is in residence at the festival, but many of

76-516: A commission to be an acoustic consultant for the new United Nations permanent headquarters to be built in New York City. Realizing the magnitude of the project at hand, Bolt had pulled in his MIT colleague Beranek for help and the partnership between the two was born. The firm, Bolt and Beranek, started out in two rented rooms on the MIT campus. Robert Newman joined the firm soon after in 1950, and

114-596: A cost of US$ 10 million which resulted in substantial improvement. In the 1960s and 1970s, experts at the company examined audio tapes related to notable events in U.S. history, including the John F. Kennedy assassination Dictabelt recording , an audio recording from the 1970 Kent State shootings , and during the 1974 Watergate scandal , the tape of President Richard Nixon that had 18.5 minutes erased. The substantial calculations required for acoustics work led to an interest, and later business opportunities, in computing. BBN

152-476: A cottage located on the estate. The season consisted of six concerts over two weeks given inside a temporary tent erected around a plywood shell. Event press noted how the concerts had already become high society events. On August 12, 1937, a thunderstorm interrupted a performance of Richard Wagner 's Ride of the Valkyries . The Boston Globe reported that "Gertrude Robinson Smith strode purposefully to

190-565: A month later. The first message between the two IMPs was "LO" — phonetically, "Hello" — but the SRI host crashed before the UCLA researcher could complete typing the "LOGIN" command. Well-known acoustics commissions include MIT's Kresge Auditorium (1954), Tanglewood 's Koussevitzky Music Shed (1959), Lincoln Center 's Avery Fisher Hall (1962), Clowes Memorial Hall (1963) in Indianapolis,

228-529: A reputation as "the third university" in Cambridge alongside Harvard and MIT , and its offices expanded on a site near Fresh Pond in western Cambridge. By 1968, the company had over 600 employees. By the early 1970s, BBN bought a laundromat on Moulton Street and tore it down for a new, seven-story headquarters. In 1980, the U.S. federal government charged BBN with contracts fraud, alleging that from 1972 to 1978, BBN altered time sheets to hide overcharging

266-896: A year, Ken Olsen , president of the newly formed Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), approached BBN to test the prototype of DEC's first computer, the PDP-1 . Within one month, BBN completed its tests and recommendations of the PDP-1. BBN ultimately purchased the first PDP-1 for around US$ 150,000 and received the machine in November 1960. After the PDP-1 arrived, BBN hired two of Licklider's friends from MIT, John McCarthy and Marvin Minsky , as consultants. McCarthy had been unsuccessful in convincing MIT engineers to build time-sharing systems for computers. He had more success at BBN though, working with Ed Fredkin and Sheldon Boilen in implementing one of

304-663: The ARPANET , the precursor to the modern Internet. The IMPs were the very first generation of gateways , known today as routers . Under the leadership of Frank Heart and Bob Kahn , four IMPs were produced for nearly US$ 1 million from September to December 1969. The first IMP was shipped to the University of California, Los Angeles in September 1969 and the second to the Stanford Research Institute

342-609: The Border Gateway Protocol ( BGPsec ), mobile ad hoc networks , advanced speech recognition , the military's Boomerang mobile shooter detection system, cognitive radio spectrum use via the DARPA XG program. In the early 2000s, BBN created the world's first quantum key distribution network, the DARPA Quantum Network , which operated for 3 years across Cambridge and Boston, and which included

380-716: The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). BBN also created a series of mobile ad hoc networks starting in the 1970s with DARPA's experimental PRNET and SURAN systems. Later BBN efforts included the networking portions of the Near-term digital radio (NTDR) and High-capacity data radio (HCDR), the Wideband Networking Software in the Joint Tactical Radio System and the Wireless Network after Next (WNaN). It also created

418-782: The Logo programming language , conceived by BBN consultant Seymour Papert as a programming language that school-age children could learn. Other well-known BBN computer-related innovations include Interlisp programming language, the TENEX operating system , and the Colossal Cave Adventure game. BBN also is well known for its parallel computing systems, including the Pluribus , and the BBN Butterfly computers, which have been used for such tasks as warfare simulation for

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456-874: The National Gallery of Victoria (1968), the Cultural Center of the Philippines (1969), Baltimore's Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall (1978) and Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall (1979). The architectural acoustics division of BBN faced controversy in the early 1960s with its acoustics design project for the Philharmonic Hall (now David Geffen Hall ) at the Lincoln Center in New York City. Beranek and BBN's chief architect were criticized for ignoring important acoustical principles in concert hall design. Many failed minor adjustments led

494-592: The U.S. Navy . BBN also developed the RS/1, RS/Explore, RS/Discover and the Cornerstone statistical software systems, and played a pioneering role in the development of today's semantic web , including participating in the DARPA Agent Markup Language project and chairing Web Ontology Language standardization. BBN was involved in building some of the earliest computer networks , including

532-518: The bbn.com domain on 24 April 1985, making it the second oldest domain name on the internet. In addition, BBN researchers participated in the development of TCP , created the Voice Funnel , an early predecessor of voice over IP , helped lead the creation of the first email security standard, Privacy Enhanced Mail (PEM), chaired development of the "core" Internet Protocol security suite ( IPsec ) standards, and performed extensive work to secure

570-634: The 1936 festival held at Holmwood, the home of Margaret Vanderbilt in nearby Lenox. The BSO gave its first concert in the Berkshires on August 13, 1936. For nearly eighty years the BSO has remained the crown jewel of the music festival. In 1937 the festival site was moved to "Tanglewood", an estate donated by Mrs. Gorham Brooks and Miss Mary Aspinwall Tappan, daughter of William Tappan and Caroline Sturgis . "Tanglewood" took its name from Tanglewood Tales , written by Nathaniel Hawthorne , while he lived in

608-568: The Berkshires for a site and support for his dream of establishing a seasonal classical music festival. He found an enthusiastic and capable patron in Gertrude Robinson Smith . Within a few months they had organized a series of concerts featuring the New York Philharmonic Orchestra , where Hadley once had been the associate conductor. Staged in an amphitheater built on the estate's show horse ring,

646-524: The Boston Symphony at Tanglewood. In 1986, a then 14-year-old Midori would debut with the BSO and snap two E-strings, one on the concertmaster's Stradivarius , playing Bernstein's Serenade after Plato's "Symposium" . In August 1990, Bernstein would conduct what proved to be his final concert, which Deutsche Grammophon would later release as a live recording on CD. Following his death in 1990, composer Aaron Copland's ashes were scattered over

684-804: The Boston University Tanglewood Institute (BUTI), a program that collaborates with young musicians. Days in the Arts (DARTs) is for middle school students and is another organization that collaborates with Tanglewood. Other youth-symphony organizations have performed at either the Music Shed or Ozawa Hall, including the Norwalk Youth Symphony, from Norwalk, Connecticut , the Empire State Youth Orchestra , from Albany, New York , and

722-904: The Greater Boston Youth Symphony (currently known as the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras). BBN Technologies Raytheon BBN (originally Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Inc. ) is an American research and development company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts , United States . In 1966, the Franklin Institute awarded the firm the Frank P. Brown Medal , in 1999 BBN received the IEEE Corporate Innovation Recognition , and on 1 February 2013, BBN

760-540: The Shed, providing outdoor space for concert goers and sweeping views of Stockbridge Bowl and Monument Mountain in the distance. At the opening ceremony for the Shed on August 4, 1938, Gertrude Robinson Smith's dedication comments were recorded and can be heard today. The Boston Symphony Orchestra has performed in the Koussevitzky Music Shed every summer since 1938, except for the interval 1942–45 when

798-610: The Tanglewood Music Center. There is a memorial garden with a bust of Copland on the Tanglewood grounds. In addition to hosting world-renowned programs of classical , jazz , and popular music , Tanglewood provides musical training. In 1940 conductor Serge Koussevitzky initiated a summer school for approximately 300 young musicians, now known as the Tanglewood Music Center . Also nearby is

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836-549: The Trustees canceled the concerts and summer school due to World War II , and during summer 2020, when performances were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic . The Shed was renovated in 1959 with acoustic designs by BBN Technologies . In 1986 the BSO acquired the adjacent Highwood estate, increasing the property area by about 40%. Seiji Ozawa Hall (1994) was built on this newly expanded property. Leonard Bernstein conducted

874-633: The concerts are put on by other groups. It is one of the premier music festivals in the United States and one of the top in the world. This music festival-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Tanglewood The history of Tanglewood begins with a series of concerts held on August 23, 25 and 26, 1934, at the Interlaken estate of Daniel Hanna, about a mile from today’s festival site. A few months earlier, composer and conductor Henry Kimball Hadley had scouted

912-528: The firm became Bolt Beranek Newman. Beranek remained the company's president and chief executive officer until 1967, and Bolt was chairman until 1976. From 1957 to 1962, J. C. R. Licklider served as vice president of engineering psychology for BBN. Foreseeing the potential to obtain federal grants for basic computer research, Licklider convinced the BBN leadership to purchase a then state-of-the-art Royal McBee LGP-30 digital computer in 1958 for US$ 25,000. Within

950-698: The first concert was attended by Sara Delano Roosevelt , the President's mother. Heartened by the success of this effort, Robinson and Hadley organized another well received series of concerts in Interlaken the following summer. After two seasons featuring the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO), under the direction of Conductor Serge Koussevitzky , was invited to perform at

988-615: The first timesharing systems, the BBN Time-Sharing System . In 1962, BBN would install one such time-shared information system at Massachusetts General Hospital where doctors and nurses could create and access patients' information at various nurses' stations connected to a central computer. BBN would soon begin more research about integrating computers and medicine, hiring Bob Taylor in 1965 and MIT Lincoln Laboratory computer systems engineer Frank Heart in 1966. As BBN began focusing on computer technology, it gained

1026-433: The government. That year, two top financial officers plea bargained for suspended sentences and US$ 20,000 fines, and the company paid a US$ 700,000 fine. BBN's September 1994 celebration of the 25th anniversary of ARPANET generated much local and national news coverage from outlets including The Boston Globe , Newsweek , and National Public Radio . By that year, Heart retired from BBN after 28 years; his final position

1064-623: The implementation and operation of the ARPANET and its Interface Message Processors ; , as well as SATNET , PRNET , MILNET , SIMNET , the Terrestrial Wideband Network , the Defense Simulation Internet , CSNET , and NEARNET . In the course of these activities, BBN researchers invented the first link-state routing protocol . BBN was a key participant in the creation of the Internet . It

1102-450: The location of hostile fire. Since then, more than 11,000 Boomerang systems have been deployed by U.S. and allied forces. BBN bought a number of computers in the late 1950s and early 1960s, notably the first production PDP-1 from Digital Equipment Corporation , on which it implemented the BBN Time-Sharing System (1962). Ray Tomlinson of BBN is widely credited as having invented the first person-to-person network email in 1971 and

1140-733: The networking portions of the U.S. Army's Mobile Subscriber Equipment (MSE) and Canada's Iris Digital Communications System . A number of well-known computer luminaries have worked at BBN, including Daniel Bobrow , Ron Brachman , John Seely Brown , Edmund Clarke , Allan Collins , William Crowther , John Curran , Chip Elliott , Wally Feurzeig , Ed Fredkin , Bob Kahn , Steve Kent , J. C. R. Licklider , John Makhoul , John McCarthy , Marvin Minsky , Dan Murphy , Severo Ornstein , Seymour Papert , Craig Partridge , Radia Perlman , Richard Pew , Oliver Selfridge , Cynthia Solomon , Warren Teitelman , Bob Thomas , Ray Tomlinson , Bill Woods , and Peiter "Mudge" Zatko . Former BBNer Dedre Gentner

1178-538: The stage when the concert stopped and addressed the record crowd of 5,000, haranguing: 'Now do you see why we must have a permanent building for these concerts?' In minutes, more than $ 30,000 was raised." The following year, the Eliel Saarinen -designed, fan-shaped Shed (now known as the Koussevitzky Music Shed, or simply "The Shed") was constructed, with some 5,100 seats, giving the BSO a permanent open-air structure in which to perform. Broad lawns extend beyond

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1216-517: The use of the @ sign in an email address. BBN has had a very distinguished career in natural-language understanding , ranging from speech recognition through machine translation and more recently machine understanding of the causality of events and accurate forecasts for the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA). BBN's education group, led by Wally Feurzeig , created

1254-526: The walls, balconies, and ceilings to be torn out and dumped, and a new consultant oversaw a repair that cost millions of dollars over several years. The division also produced poor results at the Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco . The hall's large volume and seating capacity initially resulted in less than ideal results. Kirkegaard Associates completed acoustical renovations in 1992 at

1292-666: The world's first fully operational prototype of a superconducting nanowire single-photon detector . BBN also led the Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) project for the National Science Foundation , which ultimately built out programmable "future Internet" infrastructure across approximately 60 university campuses. In August 1968, BBN was selected by ARPA to build the Interface Message Processors (IMPs) for

1330-618: Was a pioneer in developing computer models of roadway and aircraft noise , and in designing noise barriers near highways. Some of this technology was used in landmark legal cases where BBN scientists were expert witnesses. In early 2004, BBN applied its acoustics expertise to design, develop, and deliver the Boomerang shooter detection system in a little over two months to combat the sniper threat US troops faced in Operation Iraqi Freedom. The system immediately pinpoints

1368-571: Was awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation , the highest honors that the U.S. government bestows upon scientists, engineers and inventors, by President Barack Obama . It became a wholly owned subsidiary of Raytheon in 2009. BBN has its roots in an initial partnership formed on 15 October 1948 between Leo Beranek and Richard Bolt , professors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . Bolt had won

1406-409: Was president of the systems and technology division. BBN is best known for its DARPA -sponsored research. It has made notable advances in a wide variety of fields, including acoustics , computer technologies, quantum information , and synthetic biology . In recent years, BBN has led a wide range of research and development projects, including the standardization effort for the security extension to

1444-456: Was the first organization to receive an Autonomous System Number (AS1) for network identification. ASNs are an essential identification element used for Internet Backbone Routing; lower numbers generally indicate a longer established presence on the Internet. AS1 is now operated by Level 3 Communications following their acquisition of BBN's Genuity internet service provider . BBN registered

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