Colloquium Details
The Network Startup Resource Center: Teaching About Networking Around the World
| Author: | Dale Smith University of Oregon |
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| Date: | November 06, 2008 |
| Time: | 15:30 |
| Location: | 220 Deschutes Hall, University of Oregon |
| Host: | Andrzej Proskurowski |
Abstract
Dale will talk about the Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC), which is a grant and gift funded activity based at the University of Oregon. The NSRC provides significant outreach and education to the international Internet community. The talk will introduce the NSRC and its activities and will explore possible collaborations between the NSRC and the Computer and Information Science Department.
For slides from the lecture, please see The Network Startup Resource Center
For some background info about the NSRC's activities, please see:
www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=0726077
www.oreilly.com/news/nsrc_0800.html
moat.nlanr.net/NATimes/NAT.6.5.pdf
cc.uoregon.edu/cnews/summer2004/nsrc04.htm
Biography
Dale Smith is the Director of Network Services for the University of Oregon. He graduated from the University of Oregon in 1980 and obtained his masters in 1989. He has worked for the University since 1980 and has been intimately involved in all networking activities at the University since that date. He was the architect of the original U of O campus network and installed the first Internet connectivity at the University in the mid 1980s. Dale is the Principal Investigator on a National Science Foundation grant titled "Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC): Collaboration for Education, Outreach and Training". This grant, along with a number of donations and other grants funds the NSRC, which has had worldwide impact on networking training and education and the penetration of Internet technologies throughout the developing world.