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'''Lyman Chapin''' is Chief Scientist at BBN Technologies, a division of [[Verizon]]. His professional interests include mobile networking, information security and personal privacy, electronic commerce, and electronic payment systems. Mr. Chapin currently serves as the USA ([[ACM]]) representative to the International Federation for Information Processing ([[IFIP]]) Technical Committee on Communication Systems (TC6), and as the USA representative to the NATO Science Committee’s networking panel.

=== Education ===
He graduated from Cornell University in 1973 with a B.A. in Mathematics

=== Career History ===
After completing B.A. he spent the next two years writing time-sharing applications in COBOL for Systems & Programs Ltd. in New Zealand. In 1977 he joined the newly-formed Networking Group at Data General Corporation, where he was responsible for distributed resource and database management, local and wide area network architecture, and OSI-based transport, internetwork, and routing functions for DG’s open-system hardware and software products. He joined BBN (then Bolt, Beranek & Newman) in 1990 as Chief Network Architect in the Communications Division.

Mr. Chapin is a Fellow of the [[IEEE]], and has been an active contributor to the Internet and global
networking for more than 25 years, with a particular emphasis on network architecture, internetwork
protocols, and naming and addressing. He has served as chairman of the Internet Architecture Board ([[IAB]]), the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication ([[SIGCOMM]]), and the [[ANSI]] and [[ISO]] standards groups responsible for Network and Transport protocols, and was a founding trustee of the Internet Society.

In 1997 he co-founded the Wiley Networking Council publishing series at John Wiley & Sons. He is the
co-author of Open Systems Networking —[[TCP/IP]] and [[OSI]], which was published in 1993 by Addison-Wesley.<ref>[http://aso.icann.org/people/icann-board-elections/2001-elections/lyman-chapin/ aso.icann.org]</ref>

== References ==
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