David J Farber

David Farber is a Trustee Emeritus of the Board of Trustees of Stevens Institute of Technology. Dr. Farber is the Distinguished Career Professor of Computer Science and Public Policy at the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University with secondary appointments at the Heinz School of Public Policy and the Engineering Public Policy Department. Dr. Farber is also a Distinguished Policy Fellow at the University of Delaware. From 2000 to 2001, he served as Chief Technologist for the Federal Communications Commission. Prior to his appointment to the FCC, Dr. Farber served on the U.S. Presidential Advisory Committee on Information Technology. In 2003, he retired from the University of Pennsylvania where he held the Alfred Fitler Moore Chair of Telecommunications with appointments in the Engineering School and the Wharton School. Dr. Farber’s background includes positions at Bell Labs, the Rand Corporation, Xerox Data Systems, the University of California at Irvine and the University of Delaware. Dr. Farber is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and serves on the Board of Trustees of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Dr. Farber serves on the Markle Foundation Board and on the National Security Internet2 Research Advisory Board, and has served on the National Research Council and the Advisory Board on Computer Science at the National Science Foundation in addition to numerous industrial advisory boards. He has consulted for major firms in the Information Technology area including Samsung, NTT Docomo, HP, IBM, Intel and Citibank, among others. Dr. Farber was awarded the Sigcomm Award for life-long contributions to communications and Philadelphia’s John Scott Award for Contributions to Humanity. He received his M.E. degree and M.S. in Mathematics from Stevens Institute of Technology. He is also the recipient of an honorary doctorate from Stevens.