David J. Farber, former Chief Technologist of FCC, joins Steve Wozniak on SCOTTEVEST Board

David J. Farber Modeling his Version 3.0 Finetex

I am proud to announce a new addition to our Board, David J. Farber. As, the FCC's former Chief Technologist, Professor Farber has been called "The Grandfather of the Internet", among other nice things. He was named in the 1997 edition of the UPSIDE's Elite 100, as one of the Visionaries of the field and was named in the 1999 Network World as one of the 25 most powerful people in Networking. In 2002 he was named by Business Week as one of the top 25 leaders in E-Commerce.

David has been a long time customer and fan of SeV products for many years. I think he has practically everything we ever made. He is also known for short and funny quotes, called Farberisms. as described here. His SeV dedicated Farberism is: "When I travel , my Vest is like a Fibber McGee closet. Everything is stashed in it. Keys, tools, cell phones, iPods and food. When I walk through TSA security it must look like a junk shop. (It is neat having everything in one place for travel an the Vest wins). All I have to do is remember where I put my business cards when I am in Japan. My Vest is my traveling office."


He joins other luminaries on the SCOTTEVEST/SeV Board, including Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, Kenneth "Hap" Klopp, founder of The North Face, among many other less well known smart and interesting people. Please welcome David to our board.

Professor Farber's bio is below, or if you prefer to read Wikipedia's version, click here.

David J. 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 and EPP. 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. . His background includes positions at the Bell Labs, the Rand Corporation, Xerox Data Systems, University of California at Irvine and the University of Delaware. From 2000 to 2001, he served as Chief Technologist for the Federal Communications Commission. He is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and serves on the Board of Trustees of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Stevens Institute of Technology. Prior to his appointment to the FCC, he served on the U.S. Presidential Advisory Committee of Information Technology. In 2004, he was appointed as Chief Technologist of the National LambdaRain nation educational fiber network. He was awarded the Sigcomm Award for life long contributions to communications and Philadelphia’s John Scott award for Contributions to Humanity as well as an Honorary Doctorate from Stevens.