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CMU SCS "special: seminar Predicting the Unpredictable Current and Future Directions in Networking and the Implications on Society
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 16:21:00 -0400
SPECIAL SEMINAR Speaker: David Farber, University of Pennsylvania Topic: Predicting the Unpredictable Current and Future Directions in Networking and the Implications on Society Date: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 Time: 4 pm (Refreshments at 3:30 pm) Location: Wean Hall 7500 Abstract The talk will first examine the current state of networking technology and research and project it¹s short-term successes and failures. I will then explore likely networking technologies that will mature over the next decade and the implications on other fields of information systems and society. I have chosen to restrict myself to the decade time scale since predicting outside that that time frame is likely to be writing science fiction. In specific, I will examine the future directions in three areas. The first will be the wireless arena from a technical, economic and policy perspective. I will then look at the prospects and implications for end to end all optical networking and finally conclude with the technological prospects for very high speed access to the home and office technically not difficult but politically tricky. Bio DAVID J. FARBER is the Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Telecommunication Systems at the University of Pennsylvania holding appointments in the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering departments and is a Professor of Business and Public Policy at the Wharton and Annenberg schools at UPenn. This year, 2002-2003, he is a Visiting Professor at CMU in Computer Science and Public Policy. He was responsible for the design of the DCS system, one of the first operational message based fully distributed systems and is one of the authors of the SNOBOL programming language. He was one of the principals in the creation and implementation of CSNet, NSFNet, BITNET II, and CREN. He was instrumental in the creation of the NSF/DARPA funded Gigabit Network Testbed Initiative and served as the Chairman of the Gigabit Testbed Coordinating Committee. His background includes positions at the Bell Labs, the Rand Corp, Xerox Data Systems, UC Irvine and the University of Delaware. Prior to his one year appointment as Chief Technologist for the Federal Communications Commission, he was a member of the US Presidential Advisory Committee of Information Technology. In addition, he serves on the Board of Directors of both the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He is a Fellow of both the ACM and the IEEE and was the recipient of the 1995 ACM Sigcomm Award for life long contributions to the computer communications field. He was awarded in 1997 the prestigious John Scott Award for Contributions to Humanity. He was a 10-year alumnus of the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) of the US National Research Council. He is is a Visiting Professor at the International University of Tokyo and a Fellow of the Asian Research Center and the Cyberlaw Institute. He is the Founder and Editor of the influential ³network newspaper² Interesting People with a readership of over 25,000. He holds a Honorary Doctor of Science from the Stevens Institute of Technology where he is also a Trustee. ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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