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Dr. Vinton G. Cerf Vinton G. Cerf is senior vice president of Architecture and Technology for MCI. Cerf's team of architects and engineers design advanced networking frameworks including Internet-based solutions for delivering a combination of data, information, voice and video services for business and consumer use. Widely known as one of the "Fathers of the Internet," Cerf is the co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet. In December 1997, President Clinton presented the U.S. National Medal of Technology to Cerf and his partner, Robert E. Kahn, for founding and developing the Internet. Prior to rejoining MCI in 1994, Cerf was vice president of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI). As vice president of MCI Digital Information Services from 1982-1986, he led the engineering of MCI Mail, the first commercial email service to be connected to the Internet. During his tenure from 1976-1982 with the U.S. Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Cerf played a key role leading the development of Internet and Internet-related data packet and security technologies. Vint Cerf serves as chairman of the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Cerf served as founding president of the Internet Society from 1992-1995 and in 1999 served a term as chairman of the Board. In addition, Cerf is honorary chairman of the IPv6 Forum, dedicated to raising awareness and speeding introduction of the new Internet protocol. Cerf has served as a member of the U.S. Presidential Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) since 1997 and serves on several national, state and industry committees focused on cyber-security. Cerf is a principal for the Global Internet Project (GIP), and he sits on the Board of Directors for the Endowment for Excellence in Education, Folger Shakespeare Library, Gallaudet University, the MarcoPolo Foundation, Avanex Corporation, Nuance Corporation, CoSine Corporation and the Hynomics Corporation. Cerf is a Fellow of the IEEE, ACM, and American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the International Engineering Consortium, the Computer History Museum and the National Academy of Engineering. Cerf is a recipient of numerous awards and commendations in connection with his work on the Internet. These include the Marconi Fellowship, Charles Stark Draper award of the National Academy of Engineering, the Prince of Asturias award for science and technology, the Alexander Graham Bell Award presented by the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf, the NEC Computer and Communications Prize, the Silver Medal of the International Telecommunications Union, the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal, the IEEE Koji Kobayashi Award, the ACM Software and Systems Award, the ACM SIGCOMM Award, the Computer and Communications Industries Association Industry Legend Award, the Yuri Rubinsky Web Award, the Kilby Award , the Yankee Group/Interop/Network World Lifetime Achievement Award, the George R. Stibitz Award, the Werner Wolter Award, the Andrew Saks Engineering Award, the IEEE Third Millennium Medal, the Computerworld/Smithsonian Leadership Award, the J.D. Edwards Leadership Award for Collaboration, World Institute on Disability Annual award and the Library of Congress Bicentennial Living Legend medal. In December, 1994, People magazine identified Cerf as one of that year's "25 Most Intriguing People." In addition to his work on behalf of WorldCom and the Internet, Cerf has served as a technical advisor to production for "Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict.," He also made a special guest appearance in May 1998. Cerf has appeared on television programs NextWave with Leonard Nimoy and on World Business Review with Alexander Haig and Casper Weinberger. Cerf also holds an appointment as distinguished visiting scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory where he is working on the design of an interplanetary Internet. Cerf holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Stanford University and Master of Science and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from UCLA. He also holds honorary Doctorate degrees from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich; Lulea University of Technology, Sweden; University of the Balearic Islands, Palma; Capitol College, Maryland; Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania; George Mason University, Virginia; Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York; and University of Twente, Eschede, The Netherlands. His personal interests include fine wine, gourmet cooking and science
fiction. Cerf and his wife, Sigrid, were married in 1966 and have two
sons, David and Bennett. Professor Rolf Staedler Rolf Stadler is a professor at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm since 2001. He received an M.S. degree in mathematics in 1994 and a Ph.D. in computer science in 1990 from the University of Zurich. In 1991, he was with the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory. From 1992-1994, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Telecommunications Research at Columbia University, which he joined in 1994 as a Research Scientist. From 1998-1999, he was a Visiting Professor at ETH Zurich.
Rolf Stadler serves on the editorial board of the Computer Networks journal.
He has been program co-chair of the 2002 IFIP/IEEE Network Operations
and Management Symposium (NOMS'02) in Florence, Italy. His current research
interests include Scalable Networks and Systems, Autonomous Computing
and Self Management. Bill St Arnaud Bill St. Arnaud is Senior Director Advanced Networks for CANARIE Inc., where he has been responsible for the coordination and implementation of Canada's next generation optical Internet initiative called CA*net 4.
Plenary
speakers Luis Rodríguez-Roselló Luis Rodriguez-Roselló holds a degree in Telecommunications Engineer (Polytechnics University-Madrid). After some years of professional activity as engineer at a private company and as full professor at the Polytechnics University in Computer Science and Control Systems, he was appointed as Director of the Research and Development Department at the ITE (Institute for Technologies in Education) of the Ministry of Education in Spain and principal advisor for the Programme of New Technologies. He held a position as Director of the EC-liaison Department at the CDTI (Centre for the Development of Industrial Technologies) private agency of the Ministry of Industry in Spain. He joined the European Commission in 1989 as Head of Division in Directorate General “Telecommunications, Information Market and Exploitation of Research” as responsible for the R&D Programme DELTA (Developing European Learning through Technological Advance) initially, and later on of its follow-up within the III and IV Framework Programmes “Telematics for Flexible and Distance Learning“. He was responsible of the sector Research Networks and he coordinated the European Commission Task Force on Educational Multimedia. He was later on the Head of the Unit responsible for Education and Training Applications within the Information Society Technologies Programme in the 5th R&D Framework Programme. He has been recently appointed advisor and acting director of Directorate F “Emerging Technologies, Infrastructures. Applications”, a new Directorate of DG-Information Society he has been entrusted to set up in the context of the Sixth R&D Framework Programme
Peter Villemoes Peter Villemoes graduated from the Technical University in Denmark in
1959 and joined the physics research staff at Risø, the Danish
Nuclear energy research establishment.
Steven N. Goldstein Dr. Goldstein was formerly a Program Director, Interagency and International
Coordination National Science Foundation, Arlington, Virginia 22230. Dr.
Goldstein joined the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 1989 to coordinate
international networking in support of the communication needs of the
U.S. research and education community. He retired from Government Service
in January, 2003. Education Dr. Goldstein initiated and directed NSF's International Connections Management (ICM) project which, during the early 1990's, assisted in connecting about 25 countries to the Internet, including Mongolia in 1996. Through the ICM project, NSF increased trans-oceanic connectivity about 150-fold since 1991, including a historic 45 Mbps link in July, 1995 that supported a 34 Mbps connection to NORDUnet which became operational just in time for the July, 1995 IETF meeting in Stockholm. An Internet gateway implemented by the ICM in 1993, hosted the Internet connections from academic networks of eight Latin American countries at the PanAmSat teleport in Homestead, Florida. As Telecommunications Advisor to the Soros Foundations' International Science Foundation in 1993, coordinated the implementation of the first open Internet link from Moscow to the U.S. Initiated Internet initiatives in Ukraine that persist to this day. Co-chaired the "NATO Advanced Networking Workshop" in Golitsyno (Moscow area), September, 1994. Originated the high-performance international Internet exchange point which was implemented in May, 1997 as the STAR TAP in Chicago. Also initiated the NSF High Performance International Internet Services solicitation which will made use of the STAR TAP.
Stellan Ranebo
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