Ohio Technology Access Project history

Battelle scientists developed fuel for the United States Navy's first nuclear-powered submarine, the Nautilus, in 1949.

Retail stores and grocery stores across the United States use the bar code system, known as the Universal Product Code or UPC symbol, that Battelle developed in 1965.

Batelle also introduced cruise control in cars in 1970.

Battelle scientists have also made numerous medical discoveries, including a new means of treating and preventing blood clots in 1972.

She also was associate director of research computing at OSU. Her husband and physicist, 1982 Nobel Prize winner Kenneth Wilson, also moved to a post at OSU. Brown subsequently located the OARnet offices at the building on North Star Road, as she built up the OARnet staff.

In September 1987, Pitzer was serving as director of OARnet and authored a charter, which was adopted by the interim Governing Board at their meeting in November.

The first published use of the network name OARnet came in March 1988, and Earl Holland at OSU and Kate Carey at BOR were handling media relations efforts for the center.

Late 1989 was a time for VIP visits to OSC. The first, on Oct.

Also near the beginning of 1990, Silliker Laboratories Inc. opened down the hall at 1224 Kinnear, providing inspections and quality control services for the food industry, including dairies, meat packagers and food processing plants.

On May 31, 1991, the Policy subcommittee of OSTEER meets at OSU-Mansfield to discuss the issue of commercial traffic on OARnet.

OARnet established the Network Information Services help desk service in 1993 and installed a second T1 line to the OARnet/Advanced Network and Systems (ANS) gateway in Cleveland.

Established in 2000, Ohio Memory is the collaborative statewide digital library program of the Ohio History Connection and the State Library of Ohio.

The expanded IBM Cluster 1350 integrates additional, faster IBM hardware into the original system, which first became operational in January 2008.

4, 2009, Ohio computer users helped make President Barack Obama’s inauguration the most-watched streaming-video event in the Internet’s history, pushing OARnet backbone traffic to more than 8.1 gigabits.

Beginning in July 2011, students and researchers across West Virginia had access to advanced online resources over Internet2 by leveraging connections to OARnet through NSF funding.