Systems/Enterprise:
RON LACHMAN JOINS ALTNET AS CHIEF
SCIENTIST
Altnet CEO Kevin Bermeister announced that Ron
Lachman, inventor of the
TrueNames file identification method and co-founder
of Sandpiper Networks, has
been appointed Altnet's chief scientist, a new
position.
In addition to granting Altnet an exclusive license to the
TrueNames patent
for grid and peer to peer applications, Lachman will also
provide strategic
and technical guidance on Altnet's grid distributed
computing initiatives.
"Ron played a significant role in the
commercialization of the Internet, with
his technical developments and early
investments in TCP/IP and Unix
technologies," said Bermeister.
"He
adds a new level of technical and business perspective to our management
team,
and our exclusive license of his TrueNames patent for use in peer to
peer and
grid networks gives us a tremendous competitive advantage over other
distributed computing initiatives."
TrueNames is a method of
identifying data based on the actual data contents,
rather than by their name,
origin, location, address, or other information
that can easily be changed. A
unique identifier, or hash, is assigned to the
data using an algorithm in a
patented process.
Networking applications can use the hash to identify
files correctly,
eliminate unnecessary redundancies and operate more
efficiently. TrueNames can
also be used to periodically synchronize
information on distributed systems.
"Distributed, grid computing and
peer-to-peer networking are the future of the
Internet since they remove the
bottlenecks inherent to the client/server
environment" Lachman said.
"I share Altnet's vision to create a massive, worldwide, grid distributed
network that significantly lowers the costs of online distribution by making
it easier for peers to get non infringing content from each other rather than
a central source.
TrueNames identifiers will play a key role in
managing the flow of content on
Altnet's distributed network to derive the
greatest possible efficiencies and
to improve the maintenance of legitimate
content standards on the web."
Lachman co-developed and patented the
TrueNames file identification method in
1994 and granted a license for the
patent to Digital Island now part of Cable
& Wireless.
Earlier in his
career he owned a network and systems software-consulting
group, Lachman
Associates, which jointly developed NFS and
created the
Lachman Streams TCP that became
bundled with the UNIXoperating
system.
Lachman Associates was sold to Eastman Kodak's Interactive Systems Corp.
subsidiary in 1989. He served as executive vice president at Interactive
Systems and headed the business unit for four years.
When he left
Interactive Systems Corp Lachman co-founded Praxsys, which
developed a WABI
product to emulate Microsoft Windows on Unix.
Sun Microsystems
acquired Praxsys in 1992.
Lachman returned to technology consulting in
1994 and has since served as a
senior advisor and board member for many
different distributed computing and
Internet commerce technology
companies.
He will continue his consulting projects while working with
Altnet.
About Altnet
Altnet is the first peer-to-peer grid
network created to give consumers easy
access to secure content that
originates from content owners. The company's
TopSearch product integrates
with applications and web sites via the Internet
allowing content owners to
purchase keyword search terms that direct users to
their secure content.
Altnet also provides cost-effective bandwidth functions for enterprise
customers and content owners. Altnet is a subsidiary of Brilliant Digital
Entertainment.
About Brilliant Digital Entertainment Brilliant Digital
Entertainment, Inc.
(AMEX: BDE) is a developer of 3D rich media advertising
and content creation
technologies for the Internet.
It sells its b3d
Studio toolset which is targeted for use by studios,
production houses, web
content suppliers and advertising agencies to produce
entertainment,
advertising and music content for consumers distributed over
the Internet.
Brilliant also licenses its ad serving technology to the web-based
advertising industry.
For further information, please contact Robin
Gore at 818-615-1500 X528 or
rgore@bde3d.com.
http://www.brilliantdigital.com.
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