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Michael
M. Roberts is President and CEO of ICANN and a policy consultant
in the field of Internet technology, services and product
development, with a specialization in research and education.
He recently retired as Vice President at EDUCOM,
a consortium of 600 universities and colleges with interests
in information technology, where he was responsible
for networking and telecommunications programs, including
the development of public policy positions in information
technology on behalf of EDUCOM members. He was for a
number of years staff director of the EDUCOM Networking and
Telecommunications Task Force, a group of sixty universities
and corporations with common networking interests. He
was an organizer and the first director of Internet2, a project
of more than one hundred American universities to plan, integrate
and deploy an advanced broadband network and applications
for research and education. He was also one of the founders
and the first Executive Director of the Internet Society,
whose purpose is to promote the use of the Internet and guide
its further development as a foremost means of national and
international communication. Prior
to joining EDUCOM, he was at Stanford
University where he was Deputy Director of Information
Technology Services, with executive responsibilities in Stanford's
computing, communications, and information systems programs.
During 1983-86, he directed the university's telecommunications
modernization project, which installed a large digital voice
switch and extensive fiber optic network facilities. Mr.
Roberts is a liberal arts graduate of Stanford
and holds an MBA from the Stanford
Graduate School of Business. As
ICANN President, Roberts also serves as a member of its Board
of Directors. In
his long career in both the educational community and the
larger public policy arena, Mike Roberts has embodied the
wide spectrum of qualities honored in this award--influential
innovation in the use of information technology, statesmanship,
and thought leadership within and beyond our profession. His
professional work has been marked by a visionary understanding
of the nexus of higher education and information technology,
and an ability to lead communities both within and outside
of higher education. As deputy director of information technology
services at Stanford University in the mid 1980s, Roberts
was part of a senior management team that was responsible
for an institutional move into campus networking and advanced
telecommunications several years before this became a recognized
direction. He helped shape both CAUSE and Educom, two of the
most influential associations in higher education information
technologies and predecessors to EDUCAUSE. He was one of the
founders of CAUSE and in 1971 became its first president.
His service as Educom’s vice president for networking from
1986 until his retirement in 1998 included a term as interim
president. During these years he led Educom’s Networking and
Telecommunications Task Force, and his reports on the Washington
scene provided witty and politically astute insights for campus
leaders. Roberts
has shown remarkable political effectiveness over the past
20 years. He strongly influenced NSF investment in advanced
networking and related grant programs that have benefited
many of our institutions. Organizer and the first director
of Internet2, he was also one of the founders and the first
executive director of the Internet Society (ISOC) and has
been asked to help many nations develop their information
technology infrastructure plans. Currently, as interim CEO
and president of ICANN, Roberts is engaged in more groundbreaking
as he helps define policy in the volatile world of Internet
management. A prolific author and distinguished educator and
guide for CIOs at major universities, he has probably done
more than any other person to help higher education both understand
and influence economic and policy directions associated with
internetworking. Curriculum
Vitae He
was an organizer and the first director of Internet2, a project
of more than 100 American universities to plan, integrate,
and deploy an advanced broadband network and applications
for research and education. He was also one of the founders
and the first Executive Director of the Internet Society,
whose purpose is to promote the use of the Internet and guide
its further development as a foremost means of national and
international communication. Prior
to joining Educom, he was at Stanford University where he
was Deputy Director of Information Technology Services, with
executive responsibilities in Stanford’s computing, communications,
and information systems programs. During 1983-86, he directed
the university’s telecommunications modernization project,
which installed a large digital voice switch and extensive
fiber optic network facilities. Mr.
Roberts is a liberal arts graduate of Stanford and holds an
MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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