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Appendix: Biographies of Committee Members
Appendix: Biographies of Committee Members
Pages 217-224
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He is currently chairman and CEO of Zephyr Telecommunications, an international record carrier, and managing director of CROSSCONNECT, a venture capital company.
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Acampora is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California at San Diego, which he joined in 1995. There he is involved in numerous research projects addressing various issues at the cutting edge of telecommunication networks, including the Internet, ATM, broadband wireless access, network management, and dense wavelength division multiplexing.
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For 20 years before that he was at AT&T Bell Laboratories, most of the time in basic research, where his interests included radio and satellite communications, local and metropolitan area networks, packet switching, wireless access systems, and light-wave networks. His last position at Bell Labs was as director of the Transmission Technology Laboratory, where he was responsible for a wide range of projects, including broadband networks, image communications, and digital signal processing.
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Building on 15 years as a policy analyst focused on the social and policy impacts of the Internet, telecommunications networks, and digital media, he launched Flanerie Works in 2000 to help foundations better incorporate these technologies and their effects into their work. Current or recent clients include the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Paul G
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Prior to that he was general manager of the Web platforms group in the Interactive Media Group and a Microsoft chief architect, serving as a technical strategy advisor to the executive staff on advanced technology. He also led objectoriented and end-user interface technologies in the Advanced Systems division for Microsoft's future-generation operating systems products, now part of Windows NT.
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Dr. Kettler has led and continues to lead major technology thrusts, including data networking services, residential broadband, fiber-in-theloop, advanced intelligent networks (AINs)
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During his tenure, he directed the NASA National Research and Education Network project that, in combination with partners at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, deployed a high-speed national ATM infrastructure connecting major supercomputing and data archiving centers. He also supervised the primary West Coast Internet interconnect network.
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He currently teaches part time at Iona College in New Rochelle, New York, and George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He is the author of over 65 publications and 7 books: Parallel and Distributed Processing, Application of Emerging Technologies in Business, Applied Artificial Intelligence, Military Communications, Command and Control, a chapter on financial risk management in a financial management handbook, and a chapter in a book on electronic commerce.
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