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Board of Trustees2005 Board ElectionCandidatesGlenn Ricart, USARunning for candidacy in the Organizational Elections
Ricart was quite active in the 1980s in extending the ARPAnet into the present-day Internet. He and his group at the University of Maryland implemented the original NSFnet backbone, created the first open interconnection point for the Internet (FIX-East and later MAE-East), created the first implementation of TCP/IP for the IBM PC, operated the first of the NSFnet regional networks (SURAnet), and generated the reference implementation for OSPF routing. Ricart also provided both the political and technical legwork for the first Internet connections to South America and he personally instructed at the first Latin American Networking Workshop (EsLaRed) and several subsequent workshops. Although Ricart provided active support for the creation of the Internet Society and is one of its Pioneer members, he didn't take a place on the Board until 2002 when he was elected Treasurer and began meeting with the Executive Committee. Glenn Ricart is also a Board member of the Public Interest Registry, and chairs the ISOC Board Committee on PIR and the Joint ISOC-PIR Committee on Commitments. Prior to his election to the Board, Ricart served on the program committees and gave keynotes at various INET conferences and instructed multiple times in the ISOC Networking Workshops. |
Dr. Ricart is the Managing Director of the PricewaterhouseCoopers Center for Advanced Research in San José, California. Previously, he had been EVP and CTO for Novell, Co-founder and CTO of CenterBeam, Director of the Computer Science Center at the University of Maryland College Park , Program Manager at DARPA, and the head of intramural research computer services at the National Institutes of Health. He has served on the board of public companies as well as non-profits including the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, EDUCOM, and BITNET.
