John Silvester Named Chairman of the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California

LOS ALAMITOS, CA - September 13, 1999: John Silvester has been named chairman of the board of the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC), which is building CalREN-2 - the California part of Internet2. Dr. Silvester has served as Vice-Chair of CENIC since its inception in 1997, representing the University of Southern California (USC). He replaces M. Stuart Lynn who recently retired from his post at the University of California.

"Dr. Silvester has the academic background high-performance networking experience and enthusiasm to lead CENIC into new millennium," said Thomas West, President of CENIC. I look forward advancing research learning in California together with other board members.

Since 1979, Silvester has been on the faculty of the School of Engineering at the University of Southern California since 1979 and currently serves as Vice-Provost of Scholarly Technology. He is the author of over 100 technical papers and has lectured both in the United States and abroad. He has been active in the Communications Society of the IEEE and was recently appointed Director of Education. A member of the advisory board of the USC Advanced Biotechnical Consortium, he is involved with telemedicine and other applications of technology to the health sciences. Silvester was a member of the California Virtual University design team. Active in the community, Silvester is on the Board of Directors of Team Santa Monica - a community based-competitive youth swimming team and served as Vice-President from 1996-1998.

John Silvester was born in Kent, England in 1950. He received his M.A. in Mathematics and Operations Research from the University of Cambridge; the M.S. in Statistics and Computer Science from West Virginia University; and the Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA. He lives with his wife and two children in West Los Angeles.

Silvester is joined by CENIC Board of Director officers:

• Vice Chair - Jack McCredie, UC Berkeley, Associate Vice Chancellor of Information Systems and Technology
• Secretary - David Ernst, California State University (CSU), Assistant Vice Chancellor of Information Technology Services
• Treasurer - Rich Fagen, California Institute of Technology, Director of Information Technology Services

Other CENIC board members include:

• John D. Welty, CSU Fresno, President
• John Charles, CSU Hayward, Associate Vice President of Information Technology
• Raman Khanna, Stanford University, Chief Information Officer
• Jim Dolgonas, UC Office of the President, Acting Associate Vice President of Information Resources and Communications
• Kumar Patel, UC Los Angeles, Vice Chancellor for Research
• Ron Johnson, Outside Director, University of Washington, Vice President for Computing and Communications
• M. Stuart Lynn, Outside Director, past chair of CENIC, Retired

About CENIC

CENIC is a not-for-profit corporation formed by the California Institute of Technology, the California State University, Stanford University, the University of California, and the University of Southern California to advance the use of communications technology in teaching, learning, and research at California's institutions of higher education. CENIC Associates include Cisco Systems, IBM, Pacific Bell, and Sun Microsystems.