Project Reference

Quick reference for all projects covered in this history.

Project	Campus	Year	Era	Impact
ARPANET / TCP/IP design	UCLA	1969	The Internet Itself	Packet switching, Node 1, RFCs, TCP/IP, DNS
ARPANET Node 3	UC Santa Barbara	1969	The Internet Itself	Culler and Fried; 3 of 4 original nodes were UC
BSD TCP/IP stack	UC Berkeley	1983	The Internet Itself	Implementation that spread TCP/IP universally
BSD Unix	UC Berkeley	1970s-80s	Foundations	Licensing model for open source
INGRES / PostgreSQL	UC Berkeley	1973 / 1986	Foundations	World’s most popular independent database
tz database	UCLA (Paul Eggert)	1986	Universal Infrastructure	Every OS clock on earth
Apache HTTP Server	UCB (Behlendorf)	1995	Universal Infrastructure	Powered >50% of global web
UCSC Genome Browser	UC Santa Cruz	2000	Open Science	Reference for genomic research worldwide
EEGLAB	UC San Diego	1997-2001	Open Science	14,400+ citations, 350K+ downloads
Cytoscape	UC San Diego	2003	Open Science	300K downloads/yr, network biology standard
Jupyter	UC Berkeley	2001-2014	Scientific Computing	Dominant interface for interactive computing
Apache Spark	UC Berkeley	2009	Scientific Computing	Databricks $62B+; core data engineering
Ceph	UC Santa Cruz	2004	Infrastructure at Scale	Exabyte storage; funded CROSS/first UC OSPO
RISC-V	UC Berkeley	2010	Infrastructure at Scale	10B+ devices, 350+ orgs, 70 countries
Named Data Networking	UCLA	2010	Infrastructure at Scale	Future internet architecture research
Ray	UC Berkeley	2016	Infrastructure at Scale	Core OpenAI compute infrastructure

Also from UC Campuses

sourmash (UC Davis), ERPLAB (UC Davis), ChimeraX (UCSF), OpenMM (UCSF), Processing (UCLA/Casey Reas), LilyTiny (Emily Lovell, UCSC OSPO), ALPHA AI (Wei Wang, UCLA), UCSD Pascal, Tile2Net (Maryam Hosseini, UCB).