[IP] Steven Goldstein Elected to the Russian Academy of Sciences
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From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Steven Goldstein Elected to the Russian
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[Note: This is a bit dated, but I neglected to post it when I first
received it. Steve is an old friend and this is a quite surprising
and well deserved honor for him. DLH]
From: Laura Wolf <laura.wolf@xxxxxxx>
Date: July 23, 2006 3:43:14 PM PDT
To: dewayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Dewayne Hendricks)
Subject: fyi--[STAR TAP] Steven Goldstein Elected to the Russian
Academy of Sciences
July 21, 2006
Steven Goldstein Elected to the Russian Academy of Sciences
For further information, contact:
Laura Wolf
laura@xxxxxxxxxxx
In 1989, as the world's superpowers were preparing to formally
declare the end of the Cold War, Steven Goldstein joined the National
Science Foundation (NSF) and commenced a different type of United
States-Russian diplomacy that attracted little fanfare-until now.
This May Goldstein was elected as a Foreign Member of the Russian
Academy of Sciences for promoting support for scientific
collaboration between the U.S. and Russian scientific communities.
This started with his facilitating the first Internet link between
Russia and the United States in support of science. The Russian
Academy of Sciences is the highest scientific society and principal
coordinating body for research in natural and social sciences,
technology and production in Russia.
What began twelve years ago as a simple 64 Kbps link between the U.S.
and Moscow, has grown to gigabit speeds, currently circles the globe
and also touches down in the newly emerging superpower China. It has
helped foster a new generation of scientific collaboration among
countries that do not always see eye-to-eye on the world stage. "I
believe that this honor reflects the continuing desire of Russia's
scientific leadership to engage with the rest of the world's
researchers in the most constructive manner," said Goldstein.
"Collectively, there is much that can be offered to the world by such
cooperation."
During Goldstein's tenure as a program director in the NSF's Computer
and Information Sciences and Engineering (CISE) Directorate, he first
launched the International Connections Management (ICM) project in
1991. ICM succeeded in connecting academic networks from about 25
countries to the NSFnet and to its advanced networking successor, the
vBNS. The Russia connection was implemented in 1994.
Goldstein's focus then shifted to advanced international networking
under the NSF High Performance International Internet Services
project (HPIIS). Under HPIIS, a high-performance link with Russia was
implemented, first as MIRnet, and in a later more advanced version,
as NaukaNet. He served as the U.S. representative to the G7 Global
Information Society initiative entitled "Global Interoperability of
Broadband Networks" (GIBN). To further the GIBN goals, he awarded a
grant to implement the international networking exchange point in
Chicago, STAR TAP, and as the technology progressed, its transition
to the fully optical exchange point, StarLight.
Goldstein helped to guide the high-impact HPIIS follow-on to
NaukaNet, the Global Ring for Advanced Application Development
(GLORIAD), formally launched in January 2004 with the U.S., Russia
and China as founding members. GLORIAD is constructing a dedicated
lightwave round-the-world link, connecting the U.S., Russia, China,
and recently added partners Korea, Canada, the Netherlands and the
Nordic countries.
Goldstein gratefully acknowledges the support of former NSF
Networking and Communications Research and Infrastructure (NCRI)
Division Director Steve Wolff and the former Advanced Networking
Infrastructure & Research (ANIR) Division Director Aubrey Bush. "They
strongly supported scientific collaboration at the most demanding
computational levels by approving this award for a partnership that
now involves seven major entities who are advancing cooperation with
each other for the good of the planet and its inhabitants," said
Goldstein.
Goldstein earned S.B. (1961) and S.M. (1963) degrees in Physics (with
a minor in Russian) at M.I.T. and a PhD. in Engineering and Public
Policy (1981) at Carnegie-Mellon University. He served in the U.S.
Naval Reserve after having received his master's degree from M.I.T.
That tour brought him to Washington, D.C., where he has remained
throughout the rest of his career and into retirement.
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Related Links:
Russian Academy of Sciences Announcement (page in Russian)
<http://www.ras.ru/about/generalmeeting/meetingdecisions.aspx?
ID=265849ec-9077-4ba7-8a9e-6b7d0866000f&_Language=en>
StarLight <http://www.startap.net/starlight>
GLORIAD <http://www.gloriad.org>
Weblog at: <http://weblog.warpspeed.com>
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