talk on Wed at udel will be webcast

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

http://www.udel.edu/ums/udlive

at 3  pm est

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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