Lyman Chapin, SIGCOMM Chairman
Chief Scientist, Communications Division
Bolt, Beranek, and Newman, Inc.
Phone :(617) 873-3133
Internet : lyman@bbn.com
Here is a short Biography:
Lyman Chapin graduated from Cornell University in 1973 with a
B.A. in Mathematics, and spent the next two years writing COBOL
applications for Systems & Programs (NZ) Ltd. in Lower Hutt, New
Zealand. After a year travelling in Australia and Asia, he joined
the newly-formed Networking group at Data General Corporation in
1977. At DG, he was responsible for the development of software
for distributed resource management (operating-system embedded
RPC), distributed database management, X.25-based local and wide-
area networks, and OSI-based transport, internetwork, and routing
functions for DG's open-system products. In 1987 he formed the
Distributed Systems Architecture group, and was responsible for
the development of DG's Distributed Application Architecture (DAA)
and for the specification of the directory and management services
of DAA. He moved to Bolt Beranek and Newman in 1990 as the Chief
Network Architect in BBN's Communications Division and later as a
Chief Scientist in the Systems and Technologies Division, where he
works as a consultant to BBN's research and product development
groups and to clients of its Network Consulting organization. He
also oversees and contributes to BBN's open system standards
activities. He currently serves as chairman of ANSI-accredited
task group X3S3.3, responsible for Network and Transport layer
standards; as chairman of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data
Communication (SIGCOMM); as a member of the Board of Trustees of
the Internet Society; and as the Internet Standards and
Procedures area director of the Internet Engineering Steering
Group (IESG). He lives with his wife and two young daughters in
Hopkinton, Massachusetts (USA).
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