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.