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Topic 393 Democracy In Cyberspace (Lecture)
peg:visionary cyberculture zone 12:00 AM Jul 26, 1994
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 1994 04:35:52 GMT
The Australian Computer Society
and
Electronic Frontiers Australia Inc
Present
"DEMOCRACY IN CYBERSPACE:
an international perspective"
by PROFESSOR DAVID FARBER
Member of the Board of Directors of the Electronic Frontier Foundation
& The Board of Trustees of the Internet Society
Aquarium Room of the Waterboard
115-123 Bathurst Street Sydney
12:30pm, Friday 29 July 1994
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
DAVID J. FARBER was responsible for the design of the DCS system, the
first operational message based fully distributed systems using the first
local area network and is one of the authors of the SNOBOL programming
language.
He was one of the principals in the creation and implementation of CSNet,
NSFNet, BITNET II, CREN and the NREN. He was instrumental in the creation
of the NSF/DARPA funded Gigabit Network Testbed Initiative and serves as
the Chairman of the Gigabit Testbed Coordinating Committee. He is the
Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Telecommunication Systems at the
University of Pennsylvania. He was formerly with the University of
Delaware, the University of California in Irvine, Scientific Data
Systems, the Rand Corporation, and Bell Telephone Laboratories. He is a
Fellow of the IEEE and serves on the Boards of Trustees of the
Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Internet Society, on the Computer
Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) of the US National Research
Council . He is a Fellow of the GloCom Institute of Japan and serves on
the Scientific Advisory Board of the Swedish Royal Institute of
Technology.
ABOUT THE AUSTRALIAN COMPUTER SOCIETY
The Australian Computer Society is the professional association in
Australia for those in the computing and information technology fields.
Established in 1966, the ACS has over 14,000 members and on a per capita
basis is one of the largest computer societies in the world. Activities
are announced in the Usenet newsgroup "aus.org.acs". Information is
available via e-mail from info@acs.org.au or Gopher at URL:
gopher://acs-gopher.mit.csu.edu.au:1605/11/acs courtesy of Charles Sturt
University.
Australian Computer Society Inc.
NSW Branch, Suite 1002, 91 York Street, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia
Ph: +61 2 2992322 Fax: +61 2 2991280
ABOUT ELECTRONIC FRONTIERS AUSTRALIA INC.
Electronic Frontiers Australia Inc. was incorporated in May 1994. The
role of EFA is modelled on that of the USA's Electronic Frontiers
Foundation from whom EFA has received advice and encouragement during its
establishment. EFA is an association of net.residents and people with a
common interest in the digital community, computer based communication
systems, online information services, and "cyberspace", whatever that
means.
Electronic Frontiers Australia Inc.
PO Box 382, North Adelaide SA 5006
Phone: +618 384 7316 E-mail: ask@efa.iinet.com.au
Subscribe to the aus.org.efa newsgroup.
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Posted by David A Vincent, member of the board of Electronic Frontiers
Australia.
--
Ph: (h) +61 2 319 4001 David A Vincent Software Development Engineer
Ph: (w) +61 2 337 0434 Atlas Elektronik (Australia) Pty Ltd
dvincent@kralizec.zeta.org.au * I do not speak on behalf of Atlas. *