Some Key Internet Accomplishments
- Introduced the first network of Sun Workstations in Minnesota, 1982
- Co-founded the Minnesota Supercomputer Center and Directed its Networking Group, 1984-89
- Deployed the first fiber optic backbone at the UofM (MSINet), 1985
- Founded the NSF regional network MRNet in 1987, elected Chairman to oversee transition to a corporation, 1990
- Promoted light weight client-server architectures which resulted in the first Internet browser, Gopher, 1989-91
- Co-founded and designed a major Internet Service Provider (Internet Way, later UUNET France), 1994-97
- Designed satellite based multicast service adopted by Orion (WorldCast), 1996
- Principal architect and author of Loral Orion’s first global DVB IP satellite system (ODBS), 1997-2000
- Developed DVB performance and multicast enhancements at SkyStream, 1999-2002