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JCDL 2004 Organizing Committee is
pleased to announce our two Keynote
Speakers:
Vint Cerf, Senior Vice President
of Technology Strategy, MCI
Vinton
G. Cerf is senior vice president
of Technology Strategy for MCI®.
Cerf is responsible for helping
to guide corporate strategy development
from the technical perspective.
In the fast moving world of telecommunications
and Internet technology development,
technical capabilites can have a
critical impact on the success of
corporate business strategies including
product and service development,
infrastructure investment and strategic
acquisitions and partnerships.
Previously,
Cerf served as senior vice president
of Architecture and Technology,
leading a team of architects and
engineers to 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) from 1997 to 2001
and serves on several national,
state and industry committees focused
on cyber-security. Cerf sits on
the Board of Directors for the Endowment
for Excellence in Education, Folger
Shakespeare Library, Gallaudet University,
the MarcoPolo Foundation, Digex,
Incorporated, 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." and
made a special guest appearance
on the program 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.
9-10-2003
Joel Birnbaum, Senior Technical
Adviser, Hewlett-Packard Company
 Joel
S. Birnbaum is Special Technical
Assistant to Carly Fiorina, the
Chairman and CEO of the Hewlett-Packard
Company. Birnbaum’s role is
to help the company shape its technology
strategy and to communicate this
strategy to the marketplace. He
is currently chairing a National
Research Council study on cybersecurity
research. He is located in Palo
Alto, Calif.
Before
assuming his current role, Birnbaum
was senior vice president for research
and development (R&D) and director
of HP Laboratories -- a role he
retired from in February 1999. At
that time, HP Labs, Hewlett-Packard
Company's central research and development
facility, had 1300 employees, with
headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif.,
and additional laboratories in Bristol,
England; Cambridge, Mass; Tokyo,
Japan; and Haifa, Israel. He was
also responsible for the coordination
of worldwide activities in R&D
and served as the company's chief
technical officer on the Executive
Council. Birnbaum joined HP in 1980
after 15 years at IBM Corp.'s Thomas
J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown
Heights, N.Y., where he had last
served as director of computer science.
He is best known for his role in
the development of the first RISC
architecture at IBM, and for extension
and commercialization of those principles
in PA-RISC, HP’s mainline
computer family. For over twenty
years he has led research efforts
in pervasive computing, leading
to the utility/appliance model in
vogue in most companies today.
Birnbaum
holds a bachelor's degree in engineering
physics from Cornell University
in Ithaca, NY, and master's and
doctoral degrees in nuclear physics
from Yale University in New Haven,
CT, and was awarded an honorary
doctor of science degree by the
Technion University of Israel.
He
has been elected to the National
Academy of Engineering, the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences and
the Royal Academy of Engineering
of the UK. Birnbaum is a Fellow
of the Institute of Electrical and
Electronic Engineers, the Association
for Computing Machinery, the California
Council on Science and Technology,
and is a Sheffield Fellow of Yale
University. He was the year 2000
winner of the IEEE Weber Prize,
given for career engineering leadership.
He
is married to Eileen Shelle, a retired
opera singer; they have five children
and live in Los Altos Hills, CA.
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