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- ISOC 1993 Trustee Elections
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- Nominated candidate
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- Brian Carpenter
- brian@dxcern.cern.ch
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- CURRICULUM VITAE
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- Brian E. Carpenter
- Group Leader, Communications Systems Phone: +41 22 767-4967
- Computing and Networks Division Fax: +41 22 767-7155
- CERN Telex: 419000 cer ch
- European Laboratory for Particle Physics E-mail: brian@dxcern.cern.ch
- 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
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- I hold a first degree in Experimental Physics, Cambridge University, UK
- and an M.Sc. (1968) and Ph.D. (1970) in Computer Science, Manchester
- University, UK. At Manchester my research was on real-time speech
- recognition. (I was the one in the corner of the lab talking to a PDP-8.)
- I am also a Member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, UK.
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- I spent 1971 to 1974 at CERN as a systems programmer on the accelerator
- controls system. Among other jobs, I designed and implemented software
- for connection of Imlac display minicomputers (these were in effect early
- workstations) to an IBM 1800, including the communications software. I
- also got PDP-11 experience.
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- From 1974 to 1976 I was a Lecturer (assistant professor) in Computer
- Science, Massey University, New Zealand. I taught everything imaginable
- and participated in the early design of KIWINET, a prototype network.
- (Whatever happened to it?) I also began some work as a historian of the
- work of Alan Turing.
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- From 1976 to 1984 I led the systems software team in one of the
- accelerator controls groups at CERN; we provided and supported systems
- software for the synchrotron control system. My job included the
- design and choice of network hardware and software, and I was
- personally responsible for network software and operating system support.
- I also served as a member of the Board of NOCUS, the Norsk Data Computer
- Users Society.
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- Since 1985 I have led a group of about 30 engineers (software and
- hardware) and technicians responsible for most of the CERN data
- communications infrastructure. The group also proposes general policy on
- networking for CERN. Areas covered include local area networks (80
- Ethernets with some 4000 connected devices and an FDDI backbone), about
- 3000 terminal connections, and wide area networks (about 25 leased lines
- totalling 12 Mbit/s), as well as the support of TCP/IP, proprietary,
- and even OSI protocols.
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- I was a member of the Networks Subgroup of the European Commission High
- Performance Computing Advisory Committee. Until recently I was CERN's
- member of the HEPnet Requirements Committee, of the CCIRN (Coordinating
- Committee for Intercontinental Research Networking) and of the EASInet
- Project Committee, and alternate member of the RARE Council.
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- In addition to my management job, I have a strong technical interest in
- low level protocols, and I have been participating in two IETF working
- groups (ATM and TUBA).
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