Who's winning the globalization race?
George Strawn
Tuesday, 21 Mar 2006 at 6:30 pm – Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall
George Strawn joined the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 1991 and has served as Chief Information Officer since 2002, where he guides the agency in the development and design of innovative information technology. He also serves as co-chair of both the interagency Large Scale Networking Working Group and the international Coordinating Committee for Intercontinental Research Networks. In his numerous roles at the NSF, he helped define and deploy the "new" (privatized) Internet architecture and led an initiative that created the first national high-performance network testbed. Before coming to the NSF, Strawn was a computer science faculty member at Iowa State University, where he chaired the Department of Computer Science from 1983 to 1986 and served as Director of the ISU Computation Center from 1986 to 1995. He has also held several positions in the computer industry and has worked as an information technology consultant in both private industry and government. Part of the Technology, Globalization, and Culture series.Cosponsored By:
- Technology, Globalization, and Culture series
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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