[IP] David J. Farber Appointed as Chief Scientist for National LambdaRail, Inc.
David J. Farber Appointed as Chief Scientist for National LambdaRail, Inc.
WASHINGTON, D.C. April 5, 2004 Today, National LambdaRail, Inc. (NLR),
a consortium of leading U.S. research universities and private sector
technology companies, announced that it has appointed Carnegie Mellon
University Distinguished Professor David J. Farber as Chief Scientist. In
this role, Farber will coordinate the overall research agenda of the
organization as well as serve as a key public spokesperson for that
agenda. He will report directly to NLR CEO, Tom West. The relationship
between the CEO and Chief Scientist will be one of colleagues working
together to advise the NLR Board in establishing and achieving the research
goals of the company.
As Chief Scientist, Farber will be responsible for:
* Facilitating the development of a set of recommendations for NLR?s
research goals and plans; * Communicating those goals and plans to various
research communities and funding agencies;
* Acting as liaison with other providers of research infrastructure on
plans and capabilities to ensure a holistic set of facilities are provided
to various research constituencies; and
* Serving as Chair of the NLR Board?s Network Research Council and the
Science Research Council.
Farber will especially focus on coordinating efforts to identify and engage
the participation of leading researchers and subject-area communities, as
well as research programs and projects in a wide range of disciplines,
which can benefit from using NLR facilities. Simultaneously, he will
continue establishing relationships with major research funding agencies to
further their partnership with NLR and NLR participants.
?We are pleased to have Dave join our team as Chief Scientist,? said Tracy
Futhey, NLR Board Chair. ?He brings many years of experience and insight
regarding network research that will be key to the strategy and vision of
NLR. His work with the advanced scientific, clinical and networking
research communities will help create and sustain collaborations using the
NLR infrastructure and will help accelerate overall achievement in science,
medicine and network research and practices.?
Farber is Distinguished Career Professor of Computer Science and Public
Policy in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University with
secondary appointments in the Heinz School of Public Policy and the
Engineering Public Policy Group. He retired as the Alfred Fitler Moore
Professor of Telecommunication Systems at the University of Pennsylvania,
where he also was Professor of Business and Public Policy at the Wharton
School of Business and Faculty Associate of the Annenberg School of
Communications. He is currently a member of the U.S. Federal
Communications Commission?s (FCC) Technological Advisory Council and serves
on the Advisory Council of the CISE Directorate of the National Science
Foundation. In Jan. 2000, Farber was given a one year appointment as Chief
Technologist for the FCC. Prior to his role at the FCC, he served on the
U.S. Presidential Advisory Board on Information Technology.
His early research focused on creating the SNOBOL (StriNg Oriented symBOlic
Language) programming language, while at Bell Telephone Laboratories, and
in creating the world?s first operational Distributed Computer System, DCS,
while at the ICS Department at the University of California at
Irvine. Following, he helped conceive and organize CSNet, NSFNet and the
NREN at the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of Delaware
and the Gigabit Testbeds while at the University of Pennsylvania.
Farber holds an honorary degree of Doctor of Engineering from the Stevens
Institute of Technology, where he also serves as a Trustee of the Institute
and graduated in 1956.
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About National LambdaRail, Inc.
National LambdaRail, Inc. (NLR) is a major initiative of U.S. research
universities and private sector technology companies to provide a national
scale infrastructure for research and experimentation in networking
technologies and applications. NLR puts the control, the power and the
promise of experimental network infrastructure in the hands of our nation?s
scientists and researchers.
Visit www.nationallambdarail.org for more information.
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