Glenn Ricart
Dr. Glenn Ricart is an Internet pioneer and entrepreneur. He has worked in a variety of sectors, influencing the development of the Internet. He is the Founder and CTO of US Ignite, which is a national innovation ecosystem for the development and deployment of next-generation applications and services.[1]
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Dr. Ricart is renowned for bringing the ARPAnet protocols into academic and commercial use. While at the University of Maryland in the 1980s, he and his teams made the following innovations:
- Created the first implementation of TCP/IP for the IBM PC
- Created the first campus-wide TCP/IP network
- Shipped and managed the software that powered the NSFnet, which was the first non-military TCP/IP national network
- Created the first open Internet interchange point, the FIX and later MAE-EAST
- Created the first operating NSFnet regional network, SURAnet.[2]
He is also the author of the algorithm for distributed mutual exclusion in operating systems, which has been cited hundreds of times in other scholarly papers.[3]
Career History
In 2013, Dr. Glenn Ricart became an adjunct professor at the University of Utah in addition to his work with US Ignite, which began in 2011. He was a Board Member and the Secretary of The Public Interest Registry from 2004 to 2011.[4] His previous positions have included President and CEO of National LambdaRail, Managing Director at PricewaterhouseCoopers Center for Advanced Research, Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of CenterBeam, and Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Novell.
Glenn was a Board Member and Treasurer at Internet Society. He is a member of the Non-Commercial Users Constituency.
Glenn worked as a technology liaison to the Clinton White House and The Library of Congress.
Glenn has attended ICANN Paris, Cartegena de Indias, and Sydney.
Start-ups
Dr. Ricart has been involved in the founding of several start-ups in addition to US Ignite: Consultants in Computer Technology, SURAnet, and CenterBeam. CenterBeam provides directory-based remote IT management services from San José but was sold to Earthlink in 2013 after 14 years of independent operation.[5][6]