Cerf/Farber Great Debate

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: Carl Malamud <carl () media org>
Date: June 24, 2006 6:18:59 AM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Cerf/Farber Great Debate

The Center for American Progress is pleased to present:

        The Great Debate: What *is* Net Neutrality?
        July 17, 10:30-12:00 featuring Vint Cerf and Dave Farber

        To RSVP:
        http://www.americanprogress.org/netneutralityrsvp717

Net Neutrality has become a hot issue this summer in Washington,
with ominous cries of impeding doom if we don't do something.
Discussions in the House and Senate have become more heated,
and coalitions are springing around the net.

What are the real issues?  The Center for American Progress is
pleased to present a debate on this important issue featuring
two Internet experts, both known for their pioneering work
on creating the Internet and for their ability to explain
technical concepts to non-technical audiences.

About the Speakers

Vinton G. Cerf is Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist
for Google.  He is the co-author of the Internet Protocol,
a fundamental component of today's Internet.  Since the
mid-1970's, Cerf has played a leadership role in numerous
organizations that helped shape the net, including serving as
Chair of the Internet Architecture Board, program manager at
the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), Chair of the
Internet Society, and his current position as Chair of the
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number (ICANN).
Cerf has received numerous awards for his work including the
Presidential Medal of Freedom, the A.M. Turing Award from the
Association for Computing Machinery, and the IEEE Alexander
Graham Bell Medal.

Dave Farber is the Distinguished Career Professor of Computer
Science and Public Policy at the Carnegie Mellon University. He
has been making fundamental contributions to the field of
computer science since the early 1960s.  His contributions
to the field are numerous, including the creation of the
SNOBOL programming language and serving as academic advisor
to some of the most prolific contributors to the Internet
including Jon Postel and Paul Mockapetris.
He was instrumental in creating the NSF/DARPA-funded Gigabit
Network Testbed Initiative and currently serves as Chief
Scientist of National LambdaRail.  Farber served as Chief
Technologist to the Federal Communications Commission and is
on the board of numerous nonprofit organizations, including
the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He is a Fellow of both the
ACM and the IEEE and  was awarded the Sigcomm Award for life
long contributions to communications and the Scott award for
Contributions to Humanity.

The debate will be moderated by Carl Malamud, Chief Technology
Officer at the Center for American Progress.


-------------------------------------
You are subscribed as lists-ip () insecure org
To manage your subscription, go to
 http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip

Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/