IP: David Farber, Chief Technologist of the FCC and noted authority on the Internet, will visit UTD and the Telecom Corridor on March 1 and 2, 2001, and speak at the First Friday Luncheon of the Technology Business Council

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

Announcement
Office of the Vice President for Research
and Graduate Education
and
Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science
The University of Texas at Dallas

David Farber, Chief Technologist of the FCC and noted authority on the
Internet, will visit UTD and the Telecom Corridor on March 1 and 2, 2001,
and speak at the First Friday Luncheon of the Technology Business Council



Contact:        Mary Caspari
                Office of the Vice President for Research and Graduate
Education
                The University of Texas at Dallas
                972-883-4566
                mcaspari () utdallas edu

and
                Eva Demarest
                Executive Assistant to the President
                Richardson Chamber of Commerce
                Phone:  972-234-4141
                Fax:  972-680-9103
                http://www.telecomcorridor.com

and

                Mark Richardson
                Information and Technology System
                Science Applications International Corporation
                Plano, Texas
                972-943-9030 X2234
                mark.e.richardson () saic com



Richardson, TX  - February 19, 2001 - UTD's Erik Jonsson School of
Engineering and Computer Science and Office of the Vice President for
Research and Graduate Education and Telecom are pleased to announce that
Professor David J. Farber, currently serving as the Chief Technologist of
the Federal Communication Commission, will speak at the First Friday
Luncheon of the Technology Business Council on March 2 while in Dallas to
visit the Jonsson School.  Dr. Farber holds the Alfred Fitler Moore
Professorship of Telecommunication Systems in the Moore School of the
University of Pennsylvania, and also holds appointments in the Penn's
Wharton and Annenburg Schools.

During his visit, Dr. Farber will also deliver a special seminar on the UTD
campus at 3:00 pm March 1 and during his two day visit will meet and confer
with UTD faculty and students and, as well, with senior administrators and
technologists of Telecom Corridor businesses.  On March 2, he will be the
featured guest speaker at the "First Friday Luncheon" presented under the
auspices of the Telecom Corridor's Technology Business Council and UTD's
School of Management

According to Dr. William Osborne, Dean of the Erik Jonsson School of
Engineering and Computer Science, "The visit of David Farber to campus and
the Telecom Corridor is very exciting.  The Jonsson School's research and
education activities in the area of telecommunications are growing rapidly,
and the insight and advice of such a renowned authority in computer science
and telecommunication will be invaluable in helping us optimize this
growth."

"We are delighted to have a universally recognized leader in the worlds of
telecommunication and the internet come to visit UTD," said Dr. Da Hsuan
Feng, Vice President for Research and Graduate Education. "I have worked
with Dave for nearly five years now, and his reputation is certainly
justified by his intellectual depth and breadth."

David J. Farber was appointed in 1998 by Vice President Gore [ actually 
President Clinton djf]
to serve on the
U.S. Presidential Advisory Committee on Information Technology, by
Congressman Curt Weldon, Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee
Subcommittee on Military Research and Development to chair the H.U.B.S.
(hospitals, universities, businesses and schools, a Delaware, Maryland, New
Jersey and Pennsylvania information technology tele-collaborative project)
advisory council and a critical witness in the landmark Microsoft antitrust
case and named by the prestigious journal Network World as the most powerful
25.

He was responsible for the design of the DCS system, one of the first
operational message-based fully distributed operating systems and is one of
the authors of the SNOBOL programming language. He had key roles in the
creation and implementation of NSFNet and BITNET II and was instrumental in
the creation of the NSF/DARPA funded Gigabit Network Testbed Initiative,
serving as the Chairman of the Gigabit Testbed Coordinating Committee.

He is a Fellow of the IEEE [ and the ACM djf] and serves on the Boards of 
Directors of the
Electronic Frontier Foundation. He served for ten
years on the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) of the US
National Research Council.and is the Founder and Editor of the influential
network newspaper "Interesting People", which has a readership of over
20,000. He serves on many industrial Advisory Boards, such as AT&T and
Torrent. He also holds an honorary Doctor of Science and is a member of the
Board of Trustees of Stevens Institute of Technology of Hoboken, New Jersey.


Unquestionably,  "David Farber's significant pioneering work in
telecommunications and his vision for electronic communication in the future
will have a major impact on the 21st century world.  It is therefore fitting
that in this new millennium he is visiting our outstanding complex of
telecommunications research, development and business here in Richardson.
Having someone with the stature of Dave Farber visiting the Telecom Corridor
community is absolutely timely," said Ron Robinson, President and CEO of
Richardson Chamber Commerce. "His insights and inspiration will add still
more to the synergy that is a hallmark of the Telecom Corridor."
        
The University of Texas at Dallas, located at the convergence of Richardson,
Plano and Dallas in the heart of the complex of major multinational
technology corporations known as the Telecom Corridor, enrolls approximately
6500 undergraduate and 4500 graduate students. UTD faculty members have an
established tradition of scholarly achievement and extra-mural research
funding and its freshman class annually stands at the forefront of Texas
state universities in terms of average SAT scores.  The university offers
strong bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees through each its six large
schools, Arts and Humanities, The Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and
Computer Science, Human Development, Management, Natural Sciences and
Mathematics, and Social Sciences.  This comprehensive breadth is
complemented by an historical and authorized focus on engineering,
management, and science.


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Da Hsuan Feng, Ph.D.
Vice President for Research and Graduate Education
and Professor of Physics,
University of Texas at Dallas
Administrative Assistant:  Mary Caspari
Telephone: 972-883-4566
Email: Fengd () utdallas edu
http://www.utdallas.edu/utdgeneral/news/fengappt.htm 



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