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From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 04:10:32 -0400
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TechFEST 99' Honors Global Telecommunication Pioneer Contact: July 10, 1999 Contact: Keith Roberts-Sampson, TechFEST Organizer Lindsay Kay, TechFEST Tel: (610)-432-4337 http://www.tekfest.com Allentown, PA - July 10, 1999 - TechFEST `99 is a three-day celebration of technology held from July 15-17 in downtown Allentown. Along with roundtable discussions, exhibits, and presentations by world-class information technology specialists, several awards will be given out during the event. Recipients for one such award, entitled Innovative Award for Developing the Digital Nervous System, who is also TechFEST '99 festival's inaugural speaker, is the globally recognized telecommunication expert, David Farber of the University of Pennsylvania..The speech will be delivered at the festival's inaugural breakfast at Allentown's Hilton Hotel, between 7:30 am to 9:00 pm. Admission is FREE OF CHARGE. Appointed by Vice President Gore to be on the US Presidential Advisory Committee of Information Technology, by Congressman Curt Weldon, Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee Subcommittee on Military Research and Development to chair the H.U.B.S. advisory council, a critical witness in the landmark Microsoft antitrust case and named recently by the prestigious journal Network World as the most powerful 25, 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. 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. In addition, he is a Fellow of the IEEE and serves on the Board of Directors of both the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Internet Society. He was a 10 year alumni of the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) of the US National Research Council. He is is a Fellow of the Japan Glocom Institute and of the Cyberlaw Institute. He is the Founder and Editor of the influential network newspaper Interesting People with a readership of over 20,000. He serves on many industrial Advisory Boards including AT&T, COM21, Covad, Intertrust , Metricom and Torrent. He also holds an honorary Doctor of Science from and is a member of the Board of Trustees of Stevens Institute of Technology of Hoboken, New Jersey. Unquestionably, David Farber's lifetime significant pioneering work in telecommunications and his vision of electronic communication, will have impact the world in the 21st century. It is therefore fitting that as the 1999 is drawing to a close, David Farber will deliver his speech in this technology extravaganza. # # #
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