User:Steve Goldstein

Steven N. Goldstein -- Coming out of total retirement to accept a three-year appointment to the ICANN Board of Directors, starting December, 2006. Previously, International Networking Coordinator at the National Science Foundation from 1989 to 2003. In the early '90's helped to connect about 25 academic networks from around the world to the U.S. academic networking infrastructure. Then, did it all over again with "advanced" networks in the mid-'90's, including an initiative for an international inter-connect point in Chicago, the STAR TAP. And, then, yet once again with gigabit, wavelength-based networks and transition from STAR TAP to StarLight. Inspired creation of GLORIAD, a dedicated-wavelength ring around the globe to support computationally-intensive research, with U.S., Russia and China as initial partners, and then Canada, Netherlands, Korea and the Nordic consortium as new partners. Also supported and mentored the Network Startup Resource Center to assist grass roots networking implementation in less-developed countries throughout the 1990's. Elected as a Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2006 in recognition of initiating networking support for collaboration between Russian and Western scientists following the breakup of the Soviet Union. Formal education includes S.B and S.M. in Physics from M.I.T., graduate study in Biology at Georgetown University (ABD), and Ph.D. in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie-Mellon University.

Affiliations: ICANN Board of Directors, De. 2006-09

Location: Washington, D.C. USA

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