10 Facts About Glenn Ricart

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Glenn Ricart received his doctorate in the University of Maryland Department of Computer Science, which is part of the University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences in 1980, mentored by Ashok Agrawala.

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Glenn Ricart then secured financial support from IBM for writing the code, and, in addition to its free availability to the education community, arranged for IBM to sell it as IBM's entry into the field.

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3.

Glenn Ricart led the team that developed the OSPF reference implementation at the University of Maryland, including Louis Mamakos and Mike Petry.

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4.

Glenn Ricart led the team that provided and operated the routers for the first NSFNet backbone.

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5.

Glenn Ricart instructed the first networking workshop for Latin and South America and several succeeding workshops.

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6.

From 1993 to 1995, Glenn Ricart was a Program Manager at DARPA for operating systems, middleware, and end-system security.

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7.

In October 2009 Glenn Ricart was named president and CEO of National LambdaRail, the high-speed networking platform owned by the US research and education community.

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8.

Glenn Ricart is a co-founder of US Ignite, a nonprofit organization launched in 2012 with support from the National Science Foundation and numerous public and private stakeholders.

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Glenn Ricart previously served on the boards of the Internet Society, BITNET, CACI, First USA Financial Services, Santa Cruz Operation, and NASULGC.

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10.

Glenn Ricart is the CTO of Artkick - a service that displays artwork on televisions.

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