- David J. Farber, Chief of
Technologies, Federal Communications Commission, and the
Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Telecommunications,
University of Pennsylvania
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. 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. He is a member of the US
Presidential Advisory Committee of Information Technology. In
addition, he is a Fellow of the IEEE and serves on the Board
of Directors of both the Electronic Frontier Foundation and
the Internet Society. He was a 10-year alumnus of the Computer
Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) of the US National
Research Council. He is a Fellow of the Japan Glocom Institute
and of the Cyberlaw Institute. He is the Founder and Editor
of the influential network newspaper Interesting People with a
readership of over 20,000. He serves on many industrial
Advisory Boards including AT&T, COM21, Covad, Intertrust,
Metricom and Torrent. |