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IP: Professor Farber Gets an Education [that is what I asked for djf]


From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 16:45:42 -0400



http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,16044,00.html

June 19, 2000

Professor Farber Gets an Education

The FCC's new chief technologist is trying to untangle the agency's massive 
legacy of regulation to help the Internet grow. He's got a few things to 
learn.

By Aaron Pressman

Dave Farber, internet pioneer and University of Pennsylvania computer 
science professor, came to Washington in January to be chief technologist 
at the Federal Communications Commission. Farber figured he could teach the 
bureaucrats a few things about the Net. It turns out he had a few things to 
learn about politics.

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