AG reservation for March 1st

[Allan Bautista]

ACCESS DC needs to reserve the AG node for March 1st  from 1pm -3 pm EST

Speaker will be Vint Cerf



 > >Vint Cerf, "Interplanetary Internet"
 > >
 > >NGI Distinguished Lecture - 1 March 2000, 1 PM EST
 > >
 > > In order to expand the potential of Internet protocol beyond
 > > our realm and into space, I recently began working with NASA's
 > > Jet Propulsion Laboratory on a new project. The project
 > > entails developing an interplanetary communications system
 > > based on a special set of protocols that would carry
 > > transmissions between planets.
 > >
 > >The DARPA and NSF NGI Programs are proud to announce the second
 > >event in the NGI Distinguished Lecturer series of live and telecast
 > >seminars on Next Generation Internet technologies. Vint Cerf is
 > >senior vice president of Internet Architecture and Technology for
 > >MCI Worldcom. Cerf is the co-designer of the TCP/IP protocol, the
 > >communications protocol that gave birth to the Internet and which
 > >is commonly used today. 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.
 > >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. Cerf served as founding
 > >president of the Internet Society from 1992-1995 and as the
 > >chairman of the Board from 1998-1999. He is a fellow of the IEEE,
 > >ACM, American Association for the Advancement of Science, the
 > >American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of
 > >Engineering. He is on the Board of Directors of the Internet
 > >Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
 > >
 > >Location:
 > >
 > > National Center for Supercomputing Applications
 > > ACCESS Facility:
 > > Ballston Metro Center Office Tower, Suite 800
 > > 901 North Stuart Street
 > > Arlington, Virginia 22203