ISOC 1993 Trustee Elections

Nominated candidate

	Brian Carpenter
	brian@dxcern.cern.ch


CURRICULUM VITAE

    Brian E. Carpenter
    Group Leader, Communications Systems      Phone:  +41 22 767-4967
    Computing and Networks Division           Fax:    +41 22 767-7155
    CERN                                      Telex:  419000 cer ch
    European Laboratory for Particle Physics  E-mail: brian@dxcern.cern.ch
    1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland

I hold a first degree in Experimental Physics, Cambridge University, UK
and an M.Sc. (1968) and Ph.D. (1970) in Computer Science, Manchester
University, UK. At Manchester my research was on real-time speech
recognition. (I was the one in the corner of the lab talking to a PDP-8.)
I am also a Member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, UK.

I spent 1971 to 1974 at CERN as a systems programmer on the accelerator
controls system. Among other jobs, I designed and implemented software
for connection of Imlac display minicomputers (these were in effect early
workstations) to an IBM 1800, including the communications software. I
also got PDP-11 experience.

From 1974 to 1976 I was a Lecturer (assistant professor) in Computer
Science, Massey University, New Zealand. I taught everything imaginable
and participated in the early design of KIWINET, a prototype network.
(Whatever happened to it?) I also began some work as a historian of the
work of Alan Turing.

From 1976 to 1984 I led the systems software team in one of the
accelerator controls groups at CERN; we provided and supported systems
software for the synchrotron control system. My job included the
design and choice of network hardware and software, and I was
personally responsible for network software and operating system support.
I also served as a member of the Board of NOCUS, the Norsk Data Computer
Users Society.

Since 1985 I have led a group of about 30 engineers (software and
hardware) and technicians responsible for most of the CERN data
communications infrastructure. The group also proposes general policy on
networking for CERN. Areas covered include local area networks (80
Ethernets with some 4000 connected devices and an FDDI backbone), about
3000 terminal connections, and wide area networks (about 25 leased lines
totalling 12 Mbit/s), as well as the support of TCP/IP, proprietary,
and even OSI protocols.

I was a member of the Networks Subgroup of the European Commission High
Performance Computing Advisory Committee. Until recently I was CERN's
member of the HEPnet Requirements Committee, of the CCIRN (Coordinating
Committee for Intercontinental Research Networking) and of the EASInet
Project Committee, and alternate member of the RARE Council.

In addition to my management job, I have a strong technical interest in
low level protocols, and I have been participating in two IETF working
groups (ATM and TUBA).