errata in my testimony

[David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>]

During last minute editing an important piece of my past got eliminated


Dave


My background has been focused on the understanding of and the development
of technology in the computer and communications area. I started my career
in 1956 with a BS in General Engineering from Stevens Institute of
Technology. Due to the influence of a friend, I interviewed Bell Telephone
Laboratories even though I was accepted into graduate school. I accepted a
very challenging job at Bell Labs helping design the worlds first
electronic switching system which was later installed at Morris, Illinois.
It was the ENIAC of the computer-based telephone systems we have today. I
later went on to do pioneer work in programming languages and after a
period at the RAND Corp. I left industry to join the University of
California at Irvine (UCI) as a faculty member. At UCI I was responsible
for the conceptualization of the first operational distributed computer
system sponsored by the NSF -- the DCS system which was the first use of
client-server ideas, along with the first micro kernel and the first
ring-type Local Area Network. During my 10 years at  the University of
Delaware, I collaborated in the creation and operation of CSNET and the
NREN.  My journey then took me to the University of Pennsylvania where I
hold the Chair of The Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Telecommunication
Systems and  where I have co-authored the  proposal for the Gigabit
Testbeds. I have served on more industrial and government advisory
committees than is reasonable and am a Fellow of the IEEE. I serve on the
Board of Trustees of both the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the
Internet Society.