IP: Nice article from Philadlphia Inquirer on FCC appointment

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

http://www.phillynews.com/inquirer/2000/Jan/04/business/FARBER04.htm

Penn's Farber will share Net expertise with FCC

The Internet pioneer and teacher is named the agency's chief technologist. 
His ideas have been called both great and nutty.

By Patricia Horn

INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
David J. Farber, an irrepressible and outspoken pioneer of the Internet and 
a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, will become the chief 
technologist at the Federal Communications Commission in mid-January, the 
agency announced yesterday.

The post will put Farber in a position to influence policymaking at the 
FCC, the government body that regulates the telephone, broadcasting and 
cable industries, and one day, perhaps, the Internet.

Farber will undoubtedly add some spice to the FCC. How many other 
government employees quote Mao Tse-tung on their personal Web sites, were 
called the "Paul Revere of Cyberspace" by Wired Magazine, or publish one of 
the most engaging e-mail lists in the world?

"He's one of the most engaging, imaginative guys, who sometimes alternates 
between great ideas and things that sound nuts. And I love them both," 
Gregory Farrington, dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science 
at Penn, said about Farber to The Inquirer in 1996.

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