David J. Farber farber@cis.upenn.edu Nominated Candidate 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). Work Experience 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. 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. 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. Associate Professor of Information and Computer Sciences and of Electrical Engineering (with Tenure), University of California at Irvine (1970 - 1977) 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. 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. 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.