NSF Hosts Distinguished Lecture Series on Large-Scale Networking

This fall, the National Science Foundation (NSF) begins hosting the Large Scale Networking (LSN) Distinguished Networking Lecture Series. The series is sponsored by the federal LSN Working Group, which coordinates research among NSF, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Institutes of Health, NASA, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The talks, which are being held at NSF headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, promote a national discussion of advanced networking topics for the science and engineering research community.

All lectures begin at 2:00 Eastern Standard Time. They will also be available online at http://www.ngi-supernet.org/conferences.html, but you'll need RealPlayer to access them (if you don't have RealPlayer, you may download it without charge from http://www.realnetworks.com/).

• October 9, 2001
  The Secure All-Optical Internet of 2010 --What are the key open research questions?
  Dave Farber, Dept. of Computer and Information Science University of Pennsylvania
  NSF Room 375
• December 11, 2001
  Challenges for Network Research
  Bob Aiken, Sr. Manager, Academic Research and Technology Initiatives, CISCO Systems, Inc.
  NSF Stafford II Room 555
• January 8, 2002
  Deploying the Internet--why does it take so long, and can research help?
  David Clark, Sr. Research Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  NSF Room 110
• February 12, 2002
  Wireless Internet: Promises and Challenges
  David Goodman, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Polytechnic University
  NSF Room 110
• March 12, 2002
  Customer-Owned Wavelengths & Fiber--the next evolution in research networks
  Bill St. Arnaud, Senior Director, CANARIE, Inc.
  NSF Room 110
  * Note: The first lecture in the series, Global Network Requirements for Research by Michael McRobbie, the VP for Information Technology at Indiana University, was originally scheduled for Tuesday, September 11, but has been postponed until a later date.

For details, see http://www.nsf.gov/home/visit/visitjump.htm

For more information about this series of lectures, contact:

• Tom Garritano (media): tgarrita@nsf.gov (703) 292-8070
• Alan Blatecky (others): ablateck@nsf.gov (703) 292-8950
• Dave Beverstock (webcast, logistics), dbeverst@nsf.gov (703) 292-8900