video of my CMU ISRI symposium The Societal Implications of Networking: A Personal Perspective

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

[ Note if someone can strip audio I would appreciate it djf]


http://ilserver.sp.cs.cmu.edu/VIDEO/00000591/544-00000591- 
Farber9_23_04.wmv



The PhD Program in Computation, Organizations & Society Presents:

The Societal Implications of Networking: A Personal Perspective

David Farber
Distinguished Career Professor of Computer Science Public Policy

Thursday, 23 Sept. 2004, 12 pm, NSH 1507

Prof Farber has been involved with networking for over 45
years. Starting at Bell Labs and continuing in academia, he has been a
key player in many of the US networking activities. He is called by
many the Grandfather of the Internet due to his academic children who
were among the Fathers of the Internet.

With that background, Prof Farber will examine the impact that
networking has had on the world and its citizens -- not all
positive. He will comment on the current chaos -- spam and other
nasties and what if anything can be done.

The Moore's Law growth of network speeds has challenged the technical
field to better understand how the future directions in computer
hardware and increases in bandwidth due to all optical networking will
impact future systems and applications. Prof Farber will give his
thoughts on the directions with a hope of challenging the listeners to
explore this area.


Bio:

Professor Farber is Distinguished Career Professor of Computer Science
and Public Policy in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon
University holding secondary appointments in the Heinz School of
Public Policy and the Engineering Public Policy Group. In 2003 he
retired as the Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Telecommunication
Systems at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2004, Prof Farber was
appointed Chief Scientist of the National LambdaRail effort. In January  
2000, he was
appointed to be Chief Technologist at the US Federal Communications
Commission while on leave from UPenn for one year ending in early June
2001. While at UPenn, he co-directed The Penn Initiative on Markets,
Technology and Policy. He was also Director of the Distributed Systems
Laboratory - DSL where he managed leading edge research in Ultra High
Speed Networking.  His early academic research work was focused at
creating the world's first operational Distributed Computer System --
DCS while at the ICS Department at the University of California at
Irvine. After that, while with the Electrical Engineering Department
of the University of Delaware, he helped conceive and organize CSNet,
NSFNet and the NREN. He graduated from the Stevens Institute of
Technology in 1956 and then started a eleven year career at Bell
Laboratories where he helped design the first electronic switching
system - the ESS as well as co-designer of the programming language
SNOBOL. He then went west to The Rand Corporation and to Scientific
Data Systems prior to joining academia. At both Bell Labs and Rand, he
had the privilege, at a young age, of working with and learning from
giants in our field. Prof. Farber is a Trustee of the Electronic
Frontier Foundation and a Member of the Advisory Boards of the
National Institute of Informatics of Japan, the Center for Democracy
and Technology, and EPIC.

Lunch will be provided

For the complete ISRI seminar schedule, see
http://cups.cs.cmu.edu/isri-seminar/



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