Happy 2000, everybody.
What are your reactions
to this appointment?
-- ken
P.S. This was posted on the SCTE listserv.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: News Media contact:
January 3, 2000 Rosemary Kimball at
(202) 418-0500
DAVID J. FARBER NAMED FCC CHIEF TECHNOLOGIST
Washington, DC David J. Farber, currently the Alfred Fitler Moore
Professor of Telecommunication Systems at the University of Pennsylvania,
has been named Chief Technologist for the Federal Communications Commission
(FCC).
William E. Kennard, chairman of the FCC, welcomed Farber noting, "The FCC,
and, indeed, the entire country, are very fortunate to have the services of
such a distinguished, world-class technology expert as Dave Farber at this
time, as the FCC continues to tackle the complicated and increasingly
technical issues involved in ensuring universal broadband access."
Farber holds appointments in the Computer and Information Science and
Electrical Engineering Departments at Penn. He is Director of both the
Center for Communications & Information Science & Policy and the Laboratory
for Distributed Systems, where he is leading research in ultra-high speed
networking, the design of innovative distributed computer architecture, and
distributed collaboration methodology.
He was previously with the University of Delaware, the University of
California in Irvine, Scientific Data Systems, the Rand Corporation, and
the Bell Telephone Laboratories.
Farber is a Fellow of the IEEE and is the holder of the 1995 SIGCOMM
Award for lifelong contributions to the field. In 1998 he received the
John Scott Award for contributions to Humanity. Earlier recipients have
included Albert Einstein, G. Marconi, Madam Curie, the Wright
brothers, and Thomas Edison.
- FCC -
Dave Devereaux-Weber's comments:
David Farber runs Interesting People <http://www.interesting-people.org/>,
an Internet e-mail list. To find out more about Farber, go to his web page
at <http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~farber/>.
Farber is a visionary who understands the Internet. It is great to get
someone of his caliber at the FCC.
John Markoff's story in the New York Times:
<http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/01/biztech/articles/03farb.html>
Kathy Chen's story in the Wall Street Journal:
<http://interactive.wsj.com/archive/retrieve.cgi?id=SB94693329217549460.djm>
Dave
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David Devereaux-Weber, P.E.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cable.doit.wisc.edu
Network Engineering
Division of Information Technology
The University of Wisconsin - Madison
