12 Facts About Stephen Wolff

Stephen Wolff is mainly credited with turning the Internet from a government project into something that proved to have scholarly and commercial interest for the rest of the world.

Dr Wolff realized before most the potential in the Internet and began selling the idea that the Internet could have a profound effect on both the commercial and academic world.

Stephen Wolff earned a BSc with Highest Honors in Electrical Engineering from Swarthmore College in 1957, and a Ph.

Stephen Wolff taught electrical engineering at the Johns Hopkins University for ten years.

Fourteen years, Stephen Wolff worked as a communications and technology researcher for the United States Army.

Related searches

Also while working for the Army, Stephen Wolff managed a research group at the Aberdeen Proving Ground that participated in the development of ARPANET, a major technology precursor to the Internet, and its linking to the US Army's network of supercomputers.

In 1986, Stephen Wolff became Division Director for Networking and Communications Research and Infrastructure at the National Science Foundation and worked on commercializing the Internet by building a government-funded network that extended the ARPANET design into the civilian world, and spinning it off to the private sector.

Stephen Wolff managed the NSFNET project which included a national backbone network in the US that interconnected NSF sponsored supercomputing centers, regional research and education networks, federal agency networks, and international research and education networks.

Stephen Wolff managed grants to link the nation's universities together into regional networks that connected to the backbone and so provided universal connectivity to the academic community.

Stephen Wolff conceived the Gigabit Testbed, a joint NSF-DARPA project designed to prove the feasibility of IP networking at gigabit speeds.

In 1994, Stephen Wolff left NSF and joined Cisco where he helped with projects such as Internet2 and the Abilene Network.

Stephen Wolff was named the interim Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Internet2 on March 31,2011.