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June 08, 2006 | Comments: (0)

Hi. My Name is Brian

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I founded the lab about 10 years ago in hopes of creating an environment where Computer Science students could get some industry experience to balance their ivory tower curriculum. What a concept, students that can be immediately valuable to a corporation, but with the firm science foundation with which to innovate.

The Advanced Network Computing Laboratory (ANCL) creates enterprise simulations based upon data sent by friends and associates around the world. We then use these examples to do "what if" scenarios sized to the target audience. Our main goal is to put ourselves into the shoes of our readers and to sweat the details of keeping the comparisons on a level playing field.

A bit of history...
I got involved pretty early in networking with a job as a student helper on the AlohaNET project run by Norman Abramson, PhD at the University of Hawaii. This DARPA funded project produced several papers, one of which was used by Bob Metcalf of Xerox PARC as the basis for Ethernet. I finally graduated and went to work for Xerox as an interfacing specialist, then moved on to a regional distributor to become one of the first ten Novell Certified Instructors outside of Novell itself. With stops along the way with folks like Fujitsu, I landed at the General Services Administration Office of Information Security in the '90s doing secure data/video/voice communications systems. I'm now the Director of the Advanced Network Computing Laboratory at the University of Hawaii Manoa Campus in the School of Ocean and Earth Sciences and Technology (SOEST). As the largest research unit at UH I get to work on projects like upgrading the fiber optic networks on our research ships (www.soest.hawaii.edu/agor26) like the Kilo Moana (top 10 most fantastic vessels in the world according to the Discovery Channel's SuperShips show ( http://www.parthenonentertainment.com/Pages/Programs/In%20Production/superships.htm ) and suboceanic cables connecting underwater sensor nodes back to the university.

Posted by Brian Chee on June 8, 2006 11:44 AM

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