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                EE380 Computer Systems Colloquium


                      Winter Quarter 1995-1996


                          Lecture #10


Date:           Wednesday, Mar 13,1996  


Time:           4:15-5:30 pm


Location:       Skilling Auditorium


SITN:           Wednesday, Channel E1, 4:15-5:30 pm 




Speaker:        Professor David Farber         
                The Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of 
                   Telecommunication Systems
                University of Pennsylvania   


Title:          The Convergence of  Computers and Communications 
                   --  further thoughts




                        Abstract


Prof. Farber will explore the impact of increasingly higher speed
communications on the architectures of computer systems and the
structure of operating systems environment.


He will, in an elaboration of his ACM SIGCOM 95 AWARD keynote, examine
what the opportunities are for the creation of interesting and new
distributed systems based on the above changes and applications that
would utilize these changes.




                        Biography


DAVID J. FARBER is the Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of
Telecommunication Systems at the  University of Pennsylvania where he
is leading research in ultra-high speed networking and electronic
commerce.


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 founding Vice
Chairman of the  SIGCOMM, 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, SDS, UC Irvine and the University of Delaware.


He is a Fellow of the IEEE and is the holder of the prestigious 1995
SIGCOMM Award. He serves on the Board of Directors of both the
Electronic Frontier Foundation, where he is active in the preservation
of freedon in Cyberspace and the Internet Society . He is  a Fellow of
the Japan Glocom Institute, the Cyberlaw Institute, a Governor of ICCC.












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