HR Notices From April 1-3
Steve Wolff Named New Internet2 Interim VP, CTO: Ann Arbor-based Internet2 today announced that Stephen Wolff, widely considered as one of the original architects and fathers of the Internet, will join its staff as Interim Vice President and Chief Technology Officer. In this role, Wolff will be responsible for developing a strategic technical roadmap for the organization to ensure the research and education community is positioned as the focal point for network technology innovation and development. Wolff will also have primary responsibility for building a portfolio of services that significantly enhance Internet2 member institutions leading edge research efforts. In this role, Wolff will serve as the main liaison to multiple research communities as well as to the Internet2 Research Advisory Council and important federal science offices including the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy Office of Science. Wolff brings over 40 years of leadership in the development, management, and operations of advanced Internet technologies. He joins Internet2 from Cisco where he served as the Technical Manager in Corporate Consulting Engineering in the Office of the CTO, with responsibility for technical relations with the e-infrastructure community worldwide. His initial work at Cisco included the partnership with Internet2 to develop its original Abilene Network in 1998. Before joining Cisco in 1995, Wolff was Division Director for Networking and Communications Research and Infrastructure at the National Science Foundation (NSF). In this role, Wolff led the development of NSFNET, which eventually became commercialized into the Internet of today. Wolff also led the NSF's Gigabit Testbed project -- jointly funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) -- which studied the feasibility of IP networking at gigabit speeds. Prior to NSF, Wolff served as a communications technology researcher for the United States Army for 14 years where he led a team, which introduced the UNIX operating system to Army labs and participated in the development of the ARPANET. Wolff is a member of AAAS and ACM, a Life Member of IEEE, and a Pioneer Member of the Internet Society from which he received the prestigious Jonathan B. Postel Service Award in 2002. Wolff earned a Bachelors of Science with Highest Honors in Electrical Engineering from Swarthmore College in 1957, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University in 1961. In 1962 he continued his studies with post-doctoral work at Imperial College under Colin Cherry and Dennis Gabor.
