l Evolution of the Internet – A Personal Perspective -- UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE Distinguished Lecturer Series

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE
Distinguished Lecturer Series
November 18, 2009

 The Technical and Political Evolution of the Internet – A Personal  
Perspective

 Prof. David Farber
Distinguished Career Professor of
Computer Science and Public Policy
Carnegie-Mellon University

 The evolution of the Internet has been an example of a complex and  
exciting interplay of technical advances and political actions. Prof.  
Farber, a long time player in both these activities, will explore this  
interplay as an indicator of the future directions in Internet  
development.  He will explore the likely next major steps forward in  
technology and how it may dramatically change  the structure of the  
Internet. He will explore how the current FCC hearings may impact this  
technical change. Finally he will explore what the impact will be on  
our culture and on the life of our children.

David Farber is Distinguished Career Professor of Computer Science and  
Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. He retired in 2003 as the  
Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Telecommunication Systems at the  
University of Pennsylvania. While at Penn, he took a leave of absence  
to serve as chief technologist at the FCC in 2000. Farber graduated  
from Stevens Institute of Technology in 1956 and then worked at Bell  
Laboratories, where he helped design the first electronic switching  
system and co-designed the programming language SNOBOL.  His early  
academic research work at the University of California at Irvine  
focused on creating the world’s first operational Distributed Computer  
System. He then helped conceive and organize CSNet, NSFNet and the  
NREN while on faculty at the University of Delaware. Prof. Farber has  
served on a number of advisory boards and is a Fellow of both the ACM  
and the IEEE. He was named in the 1997 edition of the UPSIDE’s Elite  
100 as one of the visionaries of the field and in the 1999 Network  
World as one of the 25 most powerful people in networking. In 2002 he  
was named by Business Week as one of the top 25 leaders in E-Commerce.



Time: 3:00 PM

Place: 100 Wolf

Reception to follow in DuPont Lobby

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