Lyman Chapin
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Lyman Chapin is the co-owner of Interisle Consulting Group.[1]
Education
He graduated from Cornell University in 1973 with a B.A. in Mathematics.[2]
Career History
He started his career by writing time-sharing applications in COBOL for two years at Systems & Programs Ltd. In 1977 he joined the newly-formed Networking Group at Data General Corporation, where he was responsible for distributed resource and database management and routing functions for DG’s open-system hardware and software products.[3] He joined BBN (then Bolt, Beranek & Newman) in 1990 and worked there as Chief Network Architect in the Communications Division.[4]
Mr. Chapin is a Fellow of the IEEE, and has been an active contributor to the Internet and global networking for more than 25 years, with a particular emphasis on network architecture, internetwork protocols, and naming and addressing.[5] He been the chairman of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB), SIGCOMM, ANSI and ISO standards groups responsible for Network and Transport protocols. He was also the founding trustee of the Internet Society.[6]
He has served as the USA (ACM) representative to the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Technical Committee on Communication Systems (TC6), and as the USA representative to the NATO Science Committee’s networking panel. At BBN Technologies, he was the Chief Scientist.[7]
Publications
He is the co-author of Open Systems Networking —TCP/IP and OSI, which was published in 1993 by Addison-Wesley.[8]