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IP: NYCWireless Meeting with Special Guest Speaker Dave Farber
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 18:35:37 -0400
http://www.nycwireless.net/news.html News and Events Upcoming Events Wednesday, July 31. 6-8pm Monthly Meeting with Special Guest Speaker Dave Farber Location Details : Earth Pledge Foundation, 149 East 38th St., Street Level Entrance - Bet. Lex. and 3rd Ave. - Ring buzzer if necessary. Agenda 6-6:30pm Intro to Wireless and Q & A period 6:30-7pm SIG Updates 7-8pm Special Guest Speaker Dave Farber will talk about the new direction in FCC spectrum management. Below is a bio about him: David Farber is the Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Telecommunication Systems, holding dual appointments in the Computer and Information Science and Electrical Engineering Departments at the University of Pennsylvania, where he manages leading edge research in High Speed Networking. In addition, he holds appointments as a Faculty Fellow of the Wharton School of Business and a Faculty Associate of the Annenberg School of Communications. In 2000, he served as Chief Technologist at the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. He also directs the Center for Communications and Information Sciences and Policy. He is a Visiting Professor of the Center for Global communications of Japan, a Senior Fellow at the Asia Network Research, a member of the Advisory Board of the Center for Democracy and Technology, and has served on the Presidential Advisory Board on Information Technology. Dave is the recipient of the 1995 ACM Sigcomm Award for lifelong contributions to the computer communications field, and in 1997 was awarded the prestigious John Scott Award for Contributions to Humanity. In 1997, Upside magazine named him one of its Elite 100 visionaries of the field, and in 1999 Dave was named in Network World as one of the 25 most powerful people in networking. More info : http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~farber/ For archives see: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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