Lyman Chapin
Lyman Chapin is Chief Scientist at BBN Technologies, a division of Verizon. His professional interests include mobile networking, information security and personal privacy, electronic commerce, and electronic payment systems. Mr. Chapin currently serves 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.
Education
He graduated from Cornell University in 1973 with a B.A. in Mathematics
Career History
After completing B.A. he spent the next two years writing time-sharing applications in COBOL for Systems & Programs Ltd. in New Zealand. In 1977 he joined the newly-formed Networking Group at Data General Corporation, where he was responsible for distributed resource and database management, local and wide area network architecture, and OSI-based transport, internetwork, and routing functions for DG’s open-system hardware and software products. He joined BBN (then Bolt, Beranek & Newman) in 1990 as Chief Network Architect in the Communications Division.
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. He has served as chairman of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB), the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM), and the ANSI and ISO standards groups responsible for Network and Transport protocols, and was a founding trustee of the Internet Society.
In 1997 he co-founded the Wiley Networking Council publishing series at John Wiley & Sons. He is the co-author of Open Systems Networking —TCP/IP and OSI, which was published in 1993 by Addison-Wesley.[1]