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Dr. Glenn Ricart is an Internet pioneer and entrepreneur with a broad range of technology and business leadership experience in large corporations, startups, academia, the U.S. military, and government research.
Dr. Glenn Ricart is an Internet pioneer and entrepreneur with a broad range of technology and business leadership experience in large corporations, startups, academia, the U.S. military, and government research.
Dr.Ricart is renowned for bringing the ARPAnet protocols into academic and commercial use. While at the University of Maryland in the '80s, he and his teams made the following innovations:
Dr. Ricart is renowned for bringing the ARPAnet protocols into academic and commercial use. While at the University of Maryland in the '80s, he and his teams made the following innovations:
* Created the first implementation of TCP/IP for the IBM PC
* Created the first implementation of TCP/IP for the IBM PC
* Created the first campus-wide TCP/IP network
* Created the first campus-wide TCP/IP network
* Created the first operating NSFnet regional network, SURAnet.<ref>[http://www.saiee.org.za/files/File/BERNARD_PRICE.pdf SAIEE.org]</ref>
* Created the first operating NSFnet regional network, SURAnet.<ref>[http://www.saiee.org.za/files/File/BERNARD_PRICE.pdf SAIEE.org]</ref>
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.<ref>[http://www.saiee.org.za/files/File/BERNARD_PRICE.pdf SAIEE.org]</ref>
==Career History==
==Career History==
Dr. Glenn Ricart is currently a Board Member and the Secretary of [[PIR|The Public Interest Registry]].<ref>[http://www.linkedin.com/in/gricart linkedin.com]</ref> 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.
Dr. Glenn Ricart is currently a Board Member and the Secretary of [[PIR|The Public Interest Registry]].<ref>[http://www.linkedin.com/in/gricart linkedin.com]</ref> 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.