UW Experts and Internet2

In October 1996, the University of Washington and 33 research universities founded the Internet2 initiative. The UW, which worked with many of the same institutions and private sector partners to bring the original Internet to the Northwest, has faculty and staff who are integrally involved with the University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development's (UCAID) work on Internet2:

• Ron Johnson (vice president for computing and communications and vice provost): member of network planning and policy advisory council

• Steve Corbató (manager of network engineering): chair of routing technical working group; active in design of Abilene project

• Ed Lazowska (professor and chair of computer science & engineering): member of network research liaison council

• Terry Gray (director of networks and distributed computing): member of quality of service technical working group

• Guy Almes (formerly on the faculty of computer science & engineering): UCAID's chief engineer