Aaron Falk Joins GENI Project Office at BBN Technologies

Cambridge, Mass., August 15, 2007 — The Global Environment for Network Innovation (GENI ) Project Office (GPO) announced today that Aaron Falk has been appointed Lead System Engineer and Interim Engineering Architect in the GPO, which BBN Technologies operates under a cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation.

GENI will be a national facility for experiments on a wide variety of advanced research in communications, networking, distributed systems, cyber-security, and networked services and applications and will support those experiments at a large scale with real user populations. Compatibility with the Internet is NOT required.

GENI's design will be created by volunteer working groups reporting to Mr. Falk in his role as Interim Engineering Architect.

Mr. Falk brings extensive systems engineering experience in a range of disciplines, including large NSF projects, both within the GENI engineering community and as lead developer of the Embedded Cyberinfrastructure (ECI) subsystem of the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) project. He also chairs the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF), overseeing management of fourteen research groups, each with hundreds of members drawn from the research and standards communities, and has been an active Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) leader for over ten years.

"GENI creates a huge opportunity for ambitious research," said GENI Project Director Chip Elliott, "and Aaron's unique combination of research leadership and very strong systems engineering skills will help GENI meet its research needs on time and on budget."

About BBN Technologies
BBN Technologies, an advanced technology solutions firm, is focused on solving some of the world's most pressing problems. From national security, information security, speech recognition and language translation, to integrating disparate systems and networks, BBN has been at the forefront of technological change for more than 50 years.

Known for pioneering the development of the ARPANET, the forerunner of the Internet, BBN continues to create advances in Internet and networking technologies through its work on ad hoc networking, the semantic Web, quantum communications, and advanced protocols. Building on its substantial list of firsts, BBN operates the first metro quantum cryptography network, the first real-time foreign broadcast monitoring system, and has developed the world's first stereoscopic digital mammography system. For more information on BBN Technologies, visit www.bbn.com.

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