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- David J. Farber
- farber@cis.upenn.edu
- Nominated Candidate
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- Education: University of Pennsylvania MA (honorary), 1988. Stevens
- Institute of Technology BSEE, 1956. Stevens Institute of
- Technology, MS in Math, 1962. Bell Telephone Laboratories
- Communication Development Program, 1963 (Equivalent to MS in EE).
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- Work Experience
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- Professor of Computer and Information Science and of Electrical
- Engineering, Moore School, University of Pennsylvania (1988 -
- present). Research work has concentrated in ultra high speed
- networking and the implications of that on processor interconnect,
- protocols and software. This has created several joint study
- agreements with industrial research laboratories such as Bellcore
- and the RBOCS (Project Dawn - with MIT), IBM and Bellcore (Project
- Aurora - with MIT), and to becoming one of the principals of the
- NSF/Darpa research project in Gigabit Networking and Chairman of
- the Coordination Committee.
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- Director of the Distributed Systems Laboratory, University of
- Pennsylvania (1988 - present).
- The DSL is the focus of the research activities in the general
- systems area of both the Computer Sciences and the Electrical
- Engineering Departments. The past year has seen extensive physical
- plant improvements as well as a major revamping of the educational
- and research programs.
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- Director of the Center for Networking Technology and Applications,
- University of Delaware (1987 - 1988). Professor of Electrical
- Engineering and Professor of Computer Science, University of
- Delaware (1977 - 1988). Research work concentrated in distributed
- systems with particular emphasis on the integration of software and
- hardware leading to efficient implementations of such systems. Had
- been the leader in the creation of a campus network and had
- spearheaded the formation of and was the Director of the Center for
- Networking and Distributed Systems Applications devoted to research
- in such systems. It was at Delaware that the creation of SODS was
- undertaken and where the CSNET mail system -- MMDF was
- conceptualized and implemented.
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- Associate Professor of Information and Computer Sciences and of
- Electrical Engineering (with Tenure), University of California at
- Irvine (1970 - 1977)
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- Created and lead the Distributed Computer System Research Project
- ( 1971). At the time the largest computer research activity funded
- by the National Science Foundation. It created the software
- architecture that has formed the basis for much of the Distributed
- Systems activities that followed. It had a number of ideas such as
- Client/Servers, micro-kernal, process
- migration, message based IPC, contract resource allocation etc.
- Also conceived and directed the implementation of the first
- distributed token ring -- a forerunner of the IBM Token Ring. The
- activity transferred its technology into the Darpa work via
- collaborative efforts with IPTO and MIT.
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- Founder and Vice President of Research and Planning for Caine,
- Farber and Gordon Inc. (1970 -)
- CFG is a key player in the Program Design Methodology area. Held
- many other positions at Xerox Data Systems, RAND Corporation, and
- Bell Telephone Laboratories where he was a co-author of the SNOBOL
- programming language.
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- Many honors, academic appointments in US and abroad. Chairman of
- the Advisory Board for INET'92. Board member ISODE Corp, EFF,
- Philadelphia Academy of Sciences, Computer Science and
- Telecommunications Board of National Research Council, Corporation
- for Research and Education Networking. Founding chairman, Network
- Program Advisory Group, NSF. Co-founder, CSNET. Member IEEE, Sigma
- Xi. Invited speaker at conferences worldwide.
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