STANFORD, Calif., May 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Clean Slate Design for the Internet program at Stanford University today announced the appointment of esteemed networking researcher Guru Parulkar as its executive director. Parulkar, currently with the National Science Foundation, will come to Stanford full-time in August.
"When Guru joined NSF, networking research was too timid - mired in a need for new ideas to be backwardly compatible with the existing Internet," says Nick McKeown, director of the Clean Slate program and a professor electrical engineering and computer science at Stanford. "Guru brought the networking community together, and has helped guide it in a new direction. We are excited to have him here at Stanford, to help guide our new program."
Launched in March, the Clean Slate program is a multidisciplinary effort that takes a nothing-is-sacred approach to better meet human communications needs. Participating in this vision of fundamentally new ways to engineer a global communications infrastructure are faculty from three Stanford Engineering departments and the Graduate School of Business. The program is supported industrial affiliates Cisco Systems, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Docomo Capital, NEC and Xilinx.
"There is an urgent and important need to explore innovative architectures that can lead to Future Internet that would serve the society for decades to come," says Parulkar. "Stanford's 'Clean Slate' program is well conceived to lead the ambitious initiative of reinventing the Internet and I am delighted to join and help in this endeavor."
In 20 years in the networking field, Guru Parulkar has worked in academia, startups, a large company, and a top tier venture capital firm. He joined the NSF in 2003 in its then new Computer and Network Systems Division.
At NSF, Parulkar played a critical role in conceiving and championing the Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) Initiative, and served as the GENI program director. As a part of GENI Initiative, he co-created a new research program on Future Internet Design (FIND). He also initiated a new research program on networking of sensor systems in 2003 and managed it for three years.
Prior to NSF, Parulkar spent several years in Silicon Valley at high-tech startups. He co-founded Growth Networks and served as its CTO and Director. Growth Networks was acquired by Cisco Systems and provided key technologies for Cisco's flagship router product line, CRS. Parulkar also co-founded a multimedia wireless company called Sceos Technologies that has since evolved to be Ruckus Wireless. He also played a key role in founding the network security company Nevis Networks. He continues to serve as an advisor to high tech startups.
From 1987 to 1999, Parulkar was a professor of computer science at Washington University in St. Louis. He served as a director of the Applied Research Laboratory, and led several large multi-investigator systems projects in the area of gigabit networking, next generation Internet, multimedia systems and networking, active networking, and network measurement and visualization. Parulkar received Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Delaware in 1987.
More about the Clean Slate program can be found on the Web at: http://cleanslate.stanford.edu .
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