CMU SCS "special: seminar Predicting the Unpredictable Current and Future Directions in Networking and the Implications on Society

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

SPECIAL SEMINAR

Speaker:    David Farber, University of Pennsylvania

Topic: Predicting the Unpredictable Current and Future Directions in
Networking and the Implications on Society

Date:   Tuesday, April 15, 2003

Time:   4 pm  (Refreshments at 3:30 pm)

Location:  Wean Hall 7500

 

Abstract

 

The talk will first examine the current state of networking technology and
research and project it¹s short-term successes and failures. I will then
explore likely networking technologies that will mature over the next
decade and the implications on other fields of information systems and
society. I have chosen to restrict myself to the decade time scale since
predicting outside that that time frame is likely to be writing science
fiction. In specific, I will examine the future directions in three areas.
The first will be the wireless arena from a technical, economic and policy
perspective. I will then look at the prospects and implications for end to
end all optical networking and finally conclude with the technological
prospects for very high speed access to the home and office technically
not difficult but politically tricky.

Bio

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 and is a Professor
of Business and Public Policy at the Wharton and Annenberg schools at
UPenn. This year, 2002-2003, he is a Visiting Professor at CMU in Computer
Science and Public Policy. 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. Prior to his one year appointment
as Chief Technologist for the Federal Communications Commission, he was a
member of the US Presidential Advisory Committee of Information
Technology. In addition, he serves on the Board of Directors of both the
Electronic Frontier Foundation. He is a Fellow of both the ACM and the IEEE
and was the recipient of the 1995 ACM Sigcomm Award for life long
contributions to the computer communications field. He was awarded in 1997
the prestigious John Scott Award for Contributions to Humanity. He was a
10-year alumnus of the Computer Science and  Telecommunications Board (CSTB)
of the US National Research Council. He is  is a Visiting Professor at the
International University of Tokyo and a  Fellow of the Asian Research Center
and the Cyberlaw Institute. He is the  Founder and Editor of the influential
³network newspaper² Interesting  People with a readership of over 25,000. He
holds a Honorary Doctor of  Science from the Stevens Institute of Technology
where he is also a Trustee.

 

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