1993 ISOC Trustee Elections Nominated Candidate David Sincoskie sincos@thumper.bellcore.com W. David Sincoskie Work Address: Home Address: 445 South Street RR 3, Box 181A Morristown, NJ 07962-1910 Hampton, NJ 08827 (201) 829-4426 (908) 537-7867 sincos@bellcore.com Education Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of Delaware, 1980. Dissertation: SODS/OS: A Distributed Operating System M.S.E.E., Electrical Engineering, University of Delaware, 1977. B.E.E., Electrical Engineering (High Honors), University of Delaware, 1975. Work Experience 1986-present Executive Director, Computer Networking Research, Bellcore, Morristown, NJ. Responsible for managing a group of 3-4 subordinate managers and 20-25 researchers. Annual budget of approximately $7 million. Also manage laboratory computer center providing service to approximately 150-200 users, annual budget approximately $2 million. One major objective of the Department has been to prove the feasibility of packet switching as the underlying technology for the Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network (BISDN). The department is currently working on gigabit networking, high speed packet switching, transport protocols, and computer network management. I am currently responsible for overseeing some of Bellcore's collaborative research with the Corporation for National Research Initiatives, MIT, University of Pennsylvania, and Washington University, as well as Bellcore's membership in the Internet Society. I am also responsible for coordinating all of Bellcore's work on the national Gigabit Testbeds, and lead Bellcore's work on the AURORA gigabit testbed. Recently, I have formed and lead Bellcore's collaborations on Local ATM with Apple, Digital, HP, SUN Microsystems, and XEROX PARC, resulting in the publication of specifications for a new generation of LANs based upon ATM technology. My personal research interests during this time involved simulation of broadband packet switches, broadband packet switch design, and extensions of local area network bridges into large, high speed, network applications. I have received 3 patents in these areas. 1989-present Adjunct Associate Professor of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania. In residence from 9/89-12/89 on sabbatical leave from Bellcore. Participated in Ph.D. committees for 2 students. Maintaining collaborations with Profs. Farber and Smith. 1983-1986 District Manager, Computer Communications Research, Bellcore. Formed and then supervised a group of 5-7 researchers working in distributed computing, computer networking, LAN bridge techniques, optimizing compilers, and distributed operating systems. One major personal effort was the systems design and programming of a Ethernet-based packet telephone system which integrated voice and data switching on a single network. 1980-1983 Member of Technical Staff, Digital Systems Research, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ. Performed research in distributed operating systems, packet voice transmission over local area networks, and distributed switching systems. Professional Activities Senior Editor, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 1987-present. Editorial Board Member, Proceedings of the IEEE, 1992-present. Guest Editor, IEEE JSAC issue on Broadband Packet Communications, December, 1988. Senior Member, IEEE; Member: ACM, Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu. References Available upon request. Selected Publications Clark, D. D., Davie, B.S., Farber, D. J., Gopal, I. S., Kadaba, B. K., Sincoskie, W. D., Smith, J. M., and Tennenhouse, D. L., The Aurora Gigabit Tested, Infocom '92, Florence, Italy, May 1992 and Computer Network and ISDN Systems, Vol. 25, No. 6, January 1993. Estes, G., Geiger, E., Lyles, B., Sammartino, F., and Sincoskie, W. D., Network Compatible ATM for Local Network Applications, Phase 1, Version 1.0, Internet Posting, April 1992. Biersack, E., Cotton, C. J., Feldmeier, D. C., McAuley, A. J., and Sincoskie, W. D., Gigabit Networking Research at Bellcore, IEEE Network Magazine, March 1992. Sincoskie, W. D., System Architecture for a Large Scale Video on Demand Service, J. of Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, Vol. 22, pp. 155-162, 1991. Sincoskie, W. D., Video on Demand: Is It Feasible?, Proceedings Globecom'90, San Diego, December 1990. Giacopelli, J. N., Littlewood, M. and W. D. Sincoskie, Sunshine: A High Performance Self-Routing Broadband Packet Switch Architecture, Proceedings Int'l Switching Symposium, Stockholm, Sweden, May 1990 and J. on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 9, No. 8, pp. 1289- 1298, October 1991. Sincoskie, W. D. and C. J. Cotton, "Extended Bridge Algorithms for Large Networks," IEEE Networks Magazine, January 1988. Wu, L. T., Arthurs, E. and W. D. Sincoskie, A Packet Network for BISDN Applications, 1988 Int'l Zurich Seminar on Digital Communications, Zurich, Switzerland, March 1988. Sincoskie, W. D., and J. O. Limb, Integrated Switching Over A High- Speed Packet Network, Digest NCC-Telecommunications 86, pp. 91-96, September, 1986. Sincoskie, W. D., Transparent Interconnection of Broadcast Networks, Proceedings 1986 International Zurich Seminar on Digital Communications, pp. 131-134, March, 1986. Albanese, A., W. D. Sincoskie, and J. O. Limb, Local Communications with Multiservice Integration, Proceedings of the 33rd International Congress on Electronics, pp. 12-15, Rome, Italy, March, 1986. Albanese, A., J. O. Limb, and W. D. Sincoskie, Multiservice Integration With Optical Fiber Networks, Globecom 1985 Proceedings, December, 1985. DeTreville, John, and W. D. Sincoskie, Program Transformations for Data Access in a Local Distributed Environment, Bell System Technical Journal, Vol 63, No. 6, July-August, 1984. DeTreville, John, and W. David Sincoskie, A Distributed Experimental Communications System, IEEE J. Selected Areas in Communications, December, 1983. Sincoskie, W. D., and D. J. Farber, SODS/OS: A Distributed Operating System for the IBM Series/1, Operating Systems Review, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 46-54, July, 1980; Also Proceedings of Micro-Delcon 80, pp. 92-96, 1980. Nominator's Comments -------------------- I would like to nominate W. David Sincoskie as a candidate for the 1993 ISOC Board of Trustees election. I believe that he is qualified to serve the ISOC as a board member based upon his rather extensive involvement with the Internet to date. Dr. Sincoskie has been, at various times, an active researcher, user, network operator, and sponsor of R&D within the Internet community. Further, I also believe that as an employee of Bellcore he can, if elected, serve as a more effective bridge between the Internet community and the public telecommunications carriers.