Aaron Falk Joins GENI Project Office at BBN Technologies.CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- The Global Environment for Network Innovation (GENI) Project Office (GPO) announced today that Aaron Falk has been appointed Lead System Engineer and Interim Engineering Architect in the GPO, which BBN Technologies operates under a cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation. GENI will be a national facility for experiments on a wide variety of advanced research in communications, networking, distributed systems, cyber-security, and networked services and applications and will support those experiments at a large scale with real user populations. Compatibility with the Internet is NOT required. GENI's design will be created by volunteer working groups reporting to Mr. Falk in his role as Interim Engineering Architect. Mr. Falk brings extensive systems engineering experience in a range of disciplines, including large NSF NSF - National Science Foundation projects, both within the GENI engineering community and as lead developer of the Embedded Cyberinfrastructure (ECI ECI Employment Cost Index ECI Election Commission(er) of India ECI Enterprise Content Integration ECI Early Childhood Intervention ECI Environmental Change Institute ) subsystem of the National Ecological Observatory Network The National Ecological Observatory Network or NEON is planned to be a network of observation stations that will cover the United States, in order to collect ecological data in unprecedented detail. (NEON) project. He also chairs the Internet Research Task Force (www.irtf.org) An organization of working groups involved in researching future Internet technologies. The IRTF is managed by the IRTF Chair in conjunction with the Internet Research Steering Group (IRSG). The IRTF Chair is appointed by the Internet Architecture Board (IAB). (IRTF See Internet Research Task Force. IRTF - Internet Research Task Force ), overseeing management of fourteen research groups, each with hundreds of members drawn from the research and standards communities, and has been an active Internet Engineering Task Force (c/o Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI), Reston, VA, www.ietf.org) Founded in 1986, the IETF is a non-membership, open, voluntary standards organization dedicated to identifying problems and opportunities in IP data networks and proposing technical solutions to the (IETF See Internet Engineering Task Force. IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force ) leader for over ten years. "GENI creates a huge opportunity for ambitious research," said GENI Project Director Chip Elliott, " and Aaron's unique combination of research leadership and very strong systems engineering skills will help GENI meet its research needs on time and on budget." About BBN Technologies BBN Technologies solves real problems through the creation and disciplined application of advanced technology. With expertise spanning information security, speech and language processing, networking, distributed systems, and sensing and control systems, BBN (BBN Technologies, Cambridge, MA, www.bbn.com) A consulting firm that participated in the development of some of the most extensive networks in the world, including ARPANET, which evolved into the Internet. It was founded in 1948 as a consulting service in acoustics by Dr. scientists and engineers have amassed a substantial collection of innovations and patented solutions. Today, BBN is managing the planning and design of GENI, an advanced network facility spanning the United States; is saving lives in Iraq and Afghanistan with its Boomerang Shooter Detection System; operates the first metro quantum cryptography network; has deployed the first real-time foreign broadcast monitoring system; and is proving the benefits of the world's first stereoscopic digital mammography system in clinical trials. For more information, visit www.bbn.com. |
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