BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: DAVID R HUGHES A. Curriculum Vitae 6 North 24th Street, Colorado Springs, CO, 80904 (719) 636-2040 Education B.S., United States Military Academy, West Point, 1950 M.A., University of Pennsylvania, PA, 1955 Employment: Commissioned officer, US Army, 1950 - 1973 Positions, Scope: Founder, Technical Designer, Managing Partner, Chariot Communications - 1984-1988. Commercial Service. Managing Partner, Old Colorado City Communications, 1988 - Internet Service Provider 1992 -; Telecommunications consulting - education, government, and business; Design, production, marketting of OS2 and Unix Internet-BBS servers for K-12 education, government and business (HiCom Systems) Design, project management and coordination by telecom of Russian scientist and two Russian software engineers, in programming, production, and marketting of of original 'Troika' program suite based on International ISO-2022, and North American Presentation Protocol Standards. 1992-1993 Design, installation, of Big Sky Telegraph network project Western Montana College. Telecommunications network serving 114 one room school houses of Montana. Experimental use of Packet Radio technologies for field education. 1990. Under FCC commercial Packet Radio Licence, held by Old Colo City Comm, 1988-1992 Formal education, online, of teachers, for University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, Pikes Peak Community College, Pikes Peak Technical College, Western Montana College. 1986-1992. Installation and training of Center School District, San Luis Valley, Colorado of Internet, BBS, wireless (Part 15 SS) server and associated hardware and software. 1994-1995 Co-designer of Math, Science, Telecommunication (MAST) network, modem server for University of Northern Colorado for use in US West Foundation $1.6 million, 485 Colorado math/science 3 year teacher technology education program. 1994 Development, operation, and maintance of developmental 164kbs Wireless 903-938mhz SS Internet Server, Web page, ftp, conferencing software, branched from Old Colorado City network. 1995 Other Professional Activities Extensive lecturer, demonstrator, online and offline conferee, and informal online publisher, on personal, educational, business, government, public policy aspects of modem dialup, internetwork telecommuncations. 1980-1995 Lecturer, demonstrator, and panelist on wireless data communications 1993-1995. Consultant to the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment on its National Education and Research (NREN) studies, 1990-1992. Charter member of the standing, Colorado Springs City Council Telecommunications Advisory Committee - 1992-1995 Advised panel of the National Research Council, Academy of Sciences on networking public policies - 1994. Advisor to Colorado State telecommunications planners - Telecommunications Commission, Lt. Governor Cassidy Colorado Telecommunications Plan, 1994-95. Teaching experience United States Military Academy, 1955-1958 Series of formal, university credit, courses online, for remote teachers (university and K-12 schools) from Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Alaska, Australia. (Scholars indicate the original 1983 course, Electronic English, for Colorado Technical College, was the first such college-credit courses taught by this method, 1993.) Awards and Recognition: Pioneer Award, Electronic Frontier Foundation 1993 for telecommunications achievements. Other recipients that year - Dr. Bennet Cerf, and Dr. Paul Baran. Extensively covered by international and national general, professional, and academic press and media for work in (1) grass roots public telecom (2) educational networking (3) public policy networking (4) innovations in low cost - high connectivity solutions for rural areas. 1980-1995 B. Selected publications (10) Virtually all writings on telecommunications (over 200) from 1982-1995 in the form of reports, analyses, essays, and conference colloquies, by this author - which represent the body of his important work - are online, and have not been reduced to paper. "Appropriate and Distributed Networking" paper, 1992, submitted to the Clinton Transition Team detailing methods for networking all 83,000 public schools in the US. Available online. Reproduced all or in part by numerous publications. C. List of collaborators (within 48 months) Dr. George Johnston , MIT. Co-design and remote delivery of formal courses in the math and physics of Chaos. Prof Frank Odasz, Co-design of distance learning curriculum for Western Montana College. Glenn Reedy, PACCOM. Design of packet radio devices for integration into educational networks. Dr. Andrey Sebrant, Moscow, in designing international telecommunications software program. Steve Cisler, Chief Library Scientist, Apple Corporation. Experiments in internettworking Apple AUX and Unix systems. Dr. Ed Lyell, Colorado State Board of Education. Design of technologically supported reform of K-12 education. Dr. Tomas Atencio, University of New Mexico. Development of 'La Resolana Electronica' community-educational programs. Dewayne Hendricks, Tetherless Access. Integration of spread spectrum wireless devices into rural networks. | |
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