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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
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Special Features:
DAVID J. FARBER APPOINTED AS CHIEF
SCIENTIST FOR NLR
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.
- 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-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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