“The Past and Future of the ”

presented by

Dr Glenn Ricart – Ph.D

Synopsis: Glenn Ricart will share some of his first-hand stories about how the ARPAnet grew into an international commercial Internet during the 1980s. Then, looking forward, Dr. Ricart will turn to the developments which he believes will need to take place in technology, economics, and politics in order to allow the Internet to continue to grow. Glitches and weaknesses which are tolerable for an entertainment medium will not be acceptable as become more integral to the economy, health and safety, and national defense.

Curriculum Vitae: Dr. Glenn Ricart is an Internet pioneer and entrepreneur with a broad range of technology and business leadership experience in large corporations, startups, academia, the U.S. military, and government research. His positions have included President and CEO of National LambdaRail, Managing Director at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of CenterBeam, and Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for .

He is known for his pioneering work in bringing the ARPAnet protocols into academic and commercial use. In the mid-1980s, while academic CIO at the University of Maryland College Park, his teams created the first implementation of TCP/IP for the IBM PC; created the first campus-wide TCP/IP network, shipped and managed the software that powered the first non-military TCP/IP national network, the NSFnet; created the first open Internet interchange point (the FIX and later MAE-EAST); and proposed and created the first operating NSFnet regional network, SURAnet.

From 1995-1999 he was Novell's EVP and Chief Technology Officer responsible for its technology. During this time, Novell shipped Netware 5 and eDirectory, and Dr. Ricart started its advanced technology organization and was responsible for growing Novell's software development capabililty in India.

From 1993-1995, Dr. Ricart served his country at DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. In this role he was responsible for managing the nation's defense research programs in end-system security, operating systems, and middleware. He also served as the military's technology liaison to the Clinton White House.

Dr. Ricart has founded or co-founded three start-ups: Consultants in Computer Technology, SURAnet, and CenterBeam. CenterBeam survived the dot-com bust and is still providing directory- based remote IT management services in San José today.

Glenn has served on the boards of three public companies (First USA Financial Services, CACI, and SCO) and numerous non-profits, including EDUCOM, the and the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges. He currently serves on the board of the Public Interest Registry, the organization that provides registry services for .org. He was the co- founder of the Common Solutions Group and the Federation of American Research Networks.

Glenn invented the seminal algorithm for distributed mutual exclusion in operating systems. Its publication in the Communications of the ACM has been cited by nearly six hundred scholarly papers and books.

Dr. Ricart holds 9 issued patents and several more are pending. Dr. Ricart received his B.S. and M.S. from Case and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, College Park.