Published for BBN Employees
Cambridge, Massachusetts Octobcr1994
Current this month
BBN Celebrates the 25th Anniversary of the
ARPANET. BBN hosted a celebration to honor
those who developed the ARPANET ....................... 1
An Interview with Frank Heart .......................... 4
NEARNET Becomes Subsidiary of New BBN ISC.
With NEARNET s and BARNT TM, BBN has further
secured its position as a leading provider of Internet
services on both coasts ............................................ 7
Affirmative Action at BBN. The company is
working actively on developing its affirmative
action programs ....................................................... 8
Voice Commands for Traffic Information. BBN
has teamed with SmartRoute Systems to provide a
service that allows users to give voice commands
for traffic information ............................................. 9
BBN Staff News. Employee Anniversaries, Ungar
Receives Award, Papers and Publications, New
Principal and Division Scientists and Engineers,
SDP Publications and Patent Awards .................... 10
BBN Reports ....................................................... 13
BBN BusinessNews. BBN Names Fjeldstad to
Board. STD Introduces an Internet Server for School
Networks. TotalView TM Multiprocess Debugger
Available for Alpha AXP Workstation. BBN lnternet
Services Corporation subsidiary formed. Expansion
of NEARNET to New York. BARRNET Acquisition
Merges Internet Services on Two Coasts. New
Training Group/Services. John Kish Named Head
of SPC. RS/1 © Release Enhances External Interface.
MicroNova electronic GmbH to Distribute
BBN/Probe Software. LightStream CEO Appointed
a VP of BBN. LightStream, BBN, and NEC to
Expand ATM Relationship .................................... 14
Julie Oonahue Named CEO of New
BBN HARK Systems Corporation .................. 16
BBN Celebrates the
25th Anniversary of the ARPANET
On the weekend of September 10, BBN hosted a cclcbration to
recognize the achievements and honor the group of people
who envisioned and developed the ARPANET, the computer
network that was the predecessor to the lnternet. Thc celebra-
tion, called "The History of the Future: ARPANET, Internet ...
and Beyond," comprised several events.
Among the activities were a press reception on Friday afternoon in
the Copley Plaza Bar for members of the press, attended by a rep-
resentative group of the "pioneers," who worked on the original
ARPANET project and on the development of computer networks;
a gathcring at 6 p.m. in the Venetian Room of the Copley Plaza for
a larger group of the people who developed computer networking;
a BBN Open House at 150 CambridgePark Drive on Saturday,
Sept. 10, with technology demonstrations, to which press and pio-
neers were invited; and a gala reception and dinner in the Grand
Ballroom of the Cop]ey Plaza on Saturday cvening, attended by
more than 350 people, including members of the press, pioneers,
and others associated with computer networking around the world.
Friday Press Reception
At the Friday reception, BBN Presidcnt and CEO Gcorge Conrades
briefly described the ARPANET project and thc purpose of tbc silver
anniversary celebration Steve Lew, chairman of BBNk board of
directors, then introduced about 15 of the ARPANET foundcrs to
the press.
Among those introduced from BBN were Frank Heart, recently re-
tired from the presidency of BBN Systems and Tcchnologies Divi-
sion, who was the principal investigator on the ARPANET project;
Ben Barker, then a hardware cngincer at BBN responsible for
designing the hardware interfaces on the original IMP (Interface
Message Processor), and for installing thc first IMP at UCLA, and
now a senior vice president and chief technology officer at BBN;
and Dave Walden, then a member of the ARPANET team and one
of the three computer programmers on the project to develop the
IMP, and now a senior vice president at BBN. (Names of current
and recent BBNers appear in bold in this article.)
Several of the pioneers and a few members of the press gave brief
spontaneous talks at the Friday press reception, describing their
impressions of the early days of networking and the importance of
networking today. Other pioneers introduced included Bob Kahn,
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The "IMP guys" in 1969. Top row: Ben Barker. Second row (l to r): Truett Thach, Bill Bartell, Dave
Walden, Jim Geisman, Bob Kahn, Frank Heart, Marty Thrope, Will Crowther, and Severo Ornstein.
Severo Ornstein, Truett Thach, and Martin
Thrope, all of whom were in the original
"IMP guys" photo, taken in 1969.
Kahn, a co-author of the TCP/IP protocol,
was the founder and is now president of
the Corporation for National Research
Initiatives. Ornstein, who was respon-
sible for the ARPANET network hard-
ware component, was the founder and is
now chairman of Computer Professionals
for Social Responsibility. Truett Thach,
who helped test and install the first IMPs,
is now director of Quality and Manufac-
turing Engineering at ACC Systems in
Santa Barbara, CA.
Roland Bryan, Vint Cerf, Steve Crocker,
Doug Engelbart, Len Kleinrock, John
Postel, Lan-y Roberts, Bob Taylor, and Barry
Wessler were also introduced. Bryan, then
a principal investigator at the University of
Santa Barbara, CA, one of the original four
nodes of the ARPANET, is now president
and CEO of ACC Systems. Vint Ceff, a
co-author of the TCP,qP protocol, is now
senior vice president of data architecture
at MCI Communications Corp. and presi-
dent of the Internet Society.
Steve Crocker, responsible for the hard-
ware and software connections of the
first ARPANET computers, is now vice
president of Trusted Information Sys-
tems. Doug Engelbart, an innovator in
human/machine interaction who is cred-
ited with inventing the mouse, is now
director of the Bootstrap Institute in
Fremont, CA. Dr. Engelbart spoke on the
Thursday before the weekend events in
BBN's Guest Lecturer series.
Len Kleinrock, who developed the basic
principles of network communications
and was Principal Investigator for the
ARPA project at UCLA, the site of the
first ARPANET node, is now chairman of
UCLA's Computer Science Department
and chairman and CEO of Technology
Transfer Institute. John Postel, a member
of the ARPANET programming team at
UCLA, is now associate director for net-
working at the University of Southern
California. Larry Roberts, then Director
of the Information Processing Techniques
Office for ARPA and known as the man
who made the ARPANET happen, is now
president of ATM Systems, a division of
Pe2
Connectware, Inc. Bob Taylor, tbcn D-
rector of ARPA's computer research pro-
gram and initiator of ARPANET research,
is now director of Digital Equipment
Corporation's Systems Research Center at
Palo Alto, CA. Barry Wessler, part of the
ARPA developtnent team, was cofounder
of Telenet Communications Corp. and
NetExpress, and is now CEO of Plcxys
international in Hemdon. VA.
Among others currently at BBN who
were early contributors to networking
technology are Jerry Burchfiel, Will
Crowther, Ken Pogran, Alex McKenzie,
Touy Michel, Bob Thomas, and Ray
Tomlinson. Tomlinson developed the
first electronic mail that could work
across many computers in a network,
and is now a Principal Scientist at BBN.
A number of other BBNcrs who wcrc in-
volved with the ARPANET in its earliest
years attended the 25th Anniversary
events, as did many people working at
ARPA at the time, or located at one of the
original ARPANET sites, or who were at
BBN at the time but then went elsewhcrc.
(See photo of original ARPANET team in
1969 for some of the original "IMP guys";
see photo taken on Sept. 9, 1994 for a
"recreation" of the original team photo.)
Some of the press who accepted invitations
to the 25th anniversary celebration were
from the Boston Globe, Computer World,
Global Network, Infoworld, PC Week, Net-
work Computers, Newsbytes News, The New
Yor],' Times, and Reuters, among others.
Technology Day
BBN hdd a Technology Open House m
connection with the celebration of 25
years of innovation in netxvork communi-
cations, on Saturda); September 10 from
10 a.m to 2 p.m. at 150 CambridgePark
Drive. They showed six presentations,
and provided bus service from the Copley
Plaza to the demo site. Brief descriptions
of the demos follow:
ß Cornerstone Data Analysis Software
(BBN Software Products Corp.):
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Cornerstone integrates the key func-
tions required to perform exploratory
data analysis in an easy-to-use "point
and click" desktop application.
Cornerstone was designed for a client/
server computing environment, where
a user working at a desktop computer
or workstation can analyze data pulled
from a database on another computer.
The demo showed the use of Comer-
stone to analyze network performance.
ß LightStream 2020--Pecct Vision for
ATM Migration (LightStream Corp.):
The presentation discussed how to mi-
grate to Asynchronous Transfer Mode
(ATM) networks and provided an
overview of the LightStream TM 2020
Enterprise Switch, an optionally fault-
tolerant modular device. The switch
offers sophisticated bandwith manage-
ment and congestion avoidance features
that enable customers to reduce their
operating costs without compromising
the quality of service.
ß BBN Inte,-nct Sen, erBringing Internet
Power to the Desktops of Students and
Teachers (Educational Technologies
Dept., BBN Systems and Technologies
Division): BBN is working with schools
worldwide to incorporate internet-
working as a constructive and creative
tool for learning and teaching. The
schools are supported by the BBN In-
ternet Server TM, a complete hardware
and software package that is easy to
manage from a desktop personal com-
puter. Children and educators use tra-
ditional Internet services such as eraall
and newer interactive and hypermedia
services such as Gopher and World
Wide Web in their projects. This demo
included remote visits to students and
teachers using the Intemet Server.
ß BBN Speech Recognition Technoloy:v--
Present and Future (BBN Hark Systems
Corp.): This demo highlighted the
BBN Hark Systems Corporation's
speaker-independent continuous
speech technology. The presentation
included demos of both current and
future technology capabilities, focus-
ing on projects for the financial and
travel industries. The demo concluded
with a glimpse at the world's first
large-vocabulary, speaker independent,
continuous speeckdictation system.
Personal Internet Newspaper--Finding
and Organizing Information on the Inter-
net (Distributed Systems Dept., BBN
Systems and Technologies Division):
The BBN Personal Internet Newspaper
is designed to help people manage the
flow of information available on the
Internet from email, bulletin boards,
and on-line databases. It helps users
select what interests them from the sea
of possibilities and organize the mate-
ria] into one unified, automatically
generated digest. The demo showed
how this is done within the open
architecture of the World Wide Web,
thus integrating and adding value to
the collection of rapidly evolving tools
for the Web that facilitate information
creation, publication, discovery, and
presentation.
BBNk Network' Opcrations Ccntcr
(NOC) (BBN Interact Services Corp.):
This demo showed how BBN's Network
Operations Center proactively moni-
tors, troubleshoots, and solves prob-
lems on the Internet, one of the most
complex networking environments in
existence todas: The NOC provides
services for business, educational, and
research orgamzations that depend on
the Internet for their work.
Satuay Dinner
At the dinner on Saturday, September 10,
more than 350 people crowded into the
bar next to the CopIcy Plaza grand ball-
room for drinks and hots d'oeuvrcs and
a chance to see old friends. Marly of the
pioneers had not seen each other for
many years, Vint Cerf noted, although
they have kept in touch through eraall.
Then the guests, who had come froln all
over the United States and froln many
forcign countries, moved into the ornate
gold-and-white ballroom for dinner.
United States Rep. Edward Markey gave
a keynote speech of appreciation for the
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The "IMP guys" in 1994. Top row: Ben Barker. Second row (l to r): Truett Thach, Dave Walden
Bob Kahn, Frank Heart, Marty Thrope, and Severo Ornstein.
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computer pioneers. "I'm only an expert
on the information highway in compari-
son to other congressmen," said Marke);
"but look around you in this room. You'll
see that it's filled with daunting genius."
Governor Weld declared September 10,
1994 "Communications Networking Day,"
celebrating Massachusetts as a world
leader in computing and networking.
Steve Levy read a letter of congratulation
from President Bill Clinton, which said
in part, "Bringing together visionary in-
dividuals from every area of society, the
ARPANET project stands as a testament to
the brilliant achievements that can result
when the public and private sectors work
together for the common good. As one of
the millions of people around the world
who stays in touch through the Internet,
I extend gratitude and deep admiration to
the pioneering scientists who have made
computer networking a reality"
Video Presentation
Next, the audience saw a state-of-the-art
video presentation featuring interviews
with many of the pioneers. The presenta-
tion showed still photos of the founders
at work 25 years ago,_film footage of sig-
nificant current events of the time, and
videotaped interviews conducted with
the ARPANET pioneers this year. The
presentation provided a lively history of
the growth of computer networks from
the ARPANET to the Internet, conclud-
ing with interviews of a group of school-
children giving their views on using the
Internet.
In their interviews, several kids said that
they are much more interested in using
the Internet than their parents, who pre-
fer using the phone or watching TV,
although they try to teach their parents
how to use the new technology. One boy
said tie likes to use the Internet because
it lets him talk to all his friends at once,
instead of only one friend at a time. "Most
people didn't even have computers 25
years ago," noted another student. "i
would like to thank the [oundcrs of the
ARPANET. Even to think of making a
computer network then, they must have
been geniuses." This video presentation
will be shown in Newman Auditorium
and copies are available in the BBN Library.
Awards and Speeches
Vint Cerf briefly reminisced about the
pioneering days of networking, before he
presented awards [or their service to the
Internet community to Bob Bradcn of
USC Information Sciences Institute, and
Lyman Cbapin and Steve Kent of BBN.
He also called his wife up to tbc podium
and gave her a bug, because the day of
the dinner was their 28th wedding anni-
versary. Then Steve Levy introduced
Frank Heart, who walked to the podium
to strains of the song, "You Gotta Have
Heart," and gave a speech analyzing why
the ARPANET project was so successful.
(See the interview in this issue for sonic
of the reasons.) ß
An Interview with
Frank Heart
At the Systems and Technologies DivisionS;
New l'kar Lunch on June 30, 1994, BBN
President and CEO George Conrades
announced that Frank Heart, President of
Systems and Technologies and a senior vice
president of the corporation, was retirillg
on July 31 after 28years at BBN. Follow-
hlg is an inten, iew Frank gave to the BBN
Digest.
Q: What was your background before
you came to BBN?
A: When I was a graduate studcnt in
engineering at MIT I worked on Whirl-
wind, which was a computer on campus
there, in the late 40s, about 1949. When
1 first worked there, the machine bad 32
registers, and you entered instructions
and data in binary, via toggle switches,
and the machine took up two very large
rooms. I've been luck); because very fcw
peoplc get to ride technology rockets,
and l've had two chances. The first was
being in at the very beginning of the
computer era and getting to watch it be-
come a major industry. And then 1 had a
second crack, with the ARPANET.
Q: You mentioned that you had worked
on tim SAGE system at Lincoln Lab.
What was SAGE, and when did you go
to Lincoln Lab?
A: I'm also lucky because I never had to
apply for a job in my life. When 1 was a
graduate student working on Whirlwind,
the Air Force had just asked M1T to build
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a system to protect the country from air
raids, and that air defense system was
called SAGE. The air defense people
stumbled on Whirlwind just when it
needed to be stumbled on, and eventu-
ally most of the Whirlwind team was
transferred to Lincoln Lab, a research lab
of MIT supported by the government.
After a while, my office moved from the
campus to Lincoln Lab in Lexington, and
I continued to work on the SAGE system.
Q: How did you come to BBN?
A: I went to a summer conference at
Woods Hole which was being run by the
director of Lincoln Lab, on "Intrex," which was a study of how to use technol-
ogies and computers to make a difference
in how libraries work. At the conference
I became friendly with Danny Bobrow
from BBN, and I subsequently heard
about a possible need at BBN for addi-
tional help with the Hospital Computer
project. This project was started by Jor-
dan Baruch, a very charismatic technolo-
gist who later became Assistant Director
of the U.S. Dept. of Commerce. BBN tried
to capitalize on this project by making an
arrangement with G.E. to set up a com-
pany called Medinet, and as part of this
plan, Jordan was to run Medinet for some
period. So BBN needed help to run the
Hospital Computer project. When I came
to BBN it was being run by Paul Castle-
man, who looked twelve at the time. He
probably wasn't twelve, but he looked
twe}ve, and he had been left to cope with
NIH, Mass General, and an assortment of
strong-willed people both at these orga-
nizations and at BBN.
So BBN extracted me from Lincoln Lab
to take over that part of BBN. With great
trepidation I left Lincoln Lab after 15
years (I have lots of trouble making
major life changes.) I came to BBN in
December 1966, in time to help the Hos-
pital project through its terminal illness.
The Hospital Computer project was quite
important, even though it wasn't "sue-
cessfut," in my engineering sense. "Suc-
cessful," to me, means something that
gets out into the field and works for real
users. The project never became a work-
ing system at Mass General, but it was a
seedground and catalyst for many other
projects around the country.
For the next year and a half (1967-1968)
I worked on various projects along with
the Hospital Computer project. Then,
in mid-'68 the ARPANET project came
on the horizon, and the contract was
awarded to BBN on January 1, 1969.
Recentb; I found Hawley Rising's copy
of the original RFP and proposal, with
the names of the people involved in the
proposal. And many of them are still in-
volved with BBN. (Hawley, who helped
run the proposal in the beginning, died
earlier this year, not long after he retired
from BBN). Severo Ornstein was in charge
of hardware design, and Will Crowther
and Dave Walden were in charge of soft-
ware design. Dave is still here, and Will
is at LightStream. Bob Kahn, who was
another key member of the design team,
eventually left to go to ARPA. But a lot of
the original group stayed.
Q: so the ARPANET marked the begin-
ning of networking?
A: The ARPANET was the first packet-
switching network that was at all "real."
In England, the National Physical Lab
had a test network, and there were other
computer-to-computer connections in
existence. But the ARPANET was the
clear rootstem of networking as we know
it today. It was the first actually useful
packet network. Labor Day of 1969 was
the first installation of the ARPANET.
Q: Did we invent electronic mail at BBN?
A: Yes, Ray Tomlinson did, in the early
1970s. That is, we "invented" eraall in
the networking sense. There were ways
before then that you could leave mes-
sages for someone else within an indi-
vidual computer. The distinction was
that with our electronic mail you could
work across a multiplicity of computers
in a network.
Q: How did the ARPANET evolve into
the Internet?
A: After seeing how the ARPANET
worked, many groups around the world
built networks and then began connect-
ing them together. Then people worked
ß on connecting them in an orderly way,
and eventually the TCP/IP protocol suite
and other protocol suites were developed.
and BBN participated in the development
of such interconnection protocols. And
then, in recent years, network growth
around the world exploded.
Q: What made the ARPANET project
work so well?
A: There were many factors. At BBN we
had a very small, very talented group; the
hardware guys could program and the
software people knew a lot about hard-
ware. And the other groups around the
country who participated in the network
were the cream of the technological crop
of the day.
Also, it was crucial that Larry Roberts, at
ARPA, had cognizance of the activities
both of the user groups and the network
builders. There was a strong yet informal
group at ARPA that directed the develop-
ment activities.
It was also important that BBN placed great
emphasis on reliability. That was one of
our strengths, and has been all along. For
example, the first IMP was ruggedized
physically, and it had a watchdog timer to
restart the machine if the program went
wild, and the equipment was expected to
run unattended, with no use of buttons or
knobs locally. It was in a solid case that
was hard to tamper with. This kind of
thinking about reliability was partly a
legacy of the project group from my prior
experience at Whirlwind and Lincoln
Lab, where Jay Forester was very insistent
on the importance of reliability issues.
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Q: How about some of the other major
activities at BBN? How did the company
develop while you were here?
A: BBN started as a consulting organi-
zation. in a very real sense BBN hired
people and told them to go make a living.
What gets done here, or at least what used
to get done here, was strongly a function
of what good people wanted to do. For
example, there was an Education group
here, with Wally Feurzeig, when I arrived,
and there's been one ever since. I encour-
aged people to do what they wanted to
do, if they could make money at it (or at
least not lose too much). It was kind of
the "let the many flowers grow" philoso-
phy. Therefore, we have an organization
in which many people are working on a
broad range of technologies. BBN is less
focused than many organizations, and
while there are negative attributes to lack
of focus, there is also strength and resil-
ience in diversity. We have also found that
it is far easier to move from an existing
activity to a new one that is "close" in
some senses, rather than making a large
jump to a wholly new area.
Also, BBN is mostly pretty careful about
who it hires. It tries to hire quite good
people. It has a strong group of employ-
ees, and we are fortunate to be located a
bike ride away from Harvard and a bus-
ride away from MIT. The turnover has
been very low in the organizations I su-
pervise& Many people are still here from
the time of the ARPANET--McKenzie,
Walden, Barker, Crowther--and many
people who leave come back--some-
times after only a week!
Q: It sounds like there were lots of
connections and interactions between
between ARPA and BBN.
A: Well, as an example, BBN formed
Telenet Corporation as a direct outgrowth
of the ARPANET, and hired Larry Roberts
from ARPA to run it. Maybe that an ele-
ment of "the military-industrial complex"!
Q: But ARPA wasfit so militar3; was it?
A: Well, it varies. Many parts of ARPA,
and many people at BBN, have always
been interested in trying to create dual-
use systems, and under the Clinton ad-
ministration dual use is much in vogue.
Q: What were some other major projects
at BBN?
A: Well, there was Prophet, one of our
longest running contracts. I was involved
with that in its early years. RS/1 © grew
out of Prophet, and Software Products
Corporation grew out of RS/1.
I also believe that BBN (and I) made a
significant and rather unpublicized con-
tribution with the Pluribus multiprocessor;
BBN hasn't received the credit it deserves
for this. It was built with the goal that it
was necessary for the ARPANET, but Bob
Kahn, then at ARPA, realized that it was
an important technical advance with
more generic applications than just this
network application. We didn't get pub-
lic acclaim [or the multiprocessor revolu-
tion that is still taking place, but the
Pluribus was a very important machine.
Network monitoring and management
has also been a major activity here.
Q: Can you describe the evolution of
BBN's organization, from a single company
to one with divisions and subsidiaries?
A: Well, I've managed to survive a surfeit
of BBN reorganizations, centralizations,
decentralizations, and recentralizations
over the years, and I've continued to sup-
port good people and keep a strong R&D
group. Conrades and Levy both like to
quote me as saying that "in a real com-
pany the product sales support the R&D,
but in this company the R&D supports
the product activities." Of course it
would be nicer if the company could
send money in the other direction.
The chief way to keep the R6D part of
the company healthy is to be able to con-
tinue to attract quality staff and funding
for cutting-edge R&D. It's a circlc: good
people lead to good research funding,
and good research funding leads to more
good people being interested in working
here. A lot of our success with funding
agencies has been a [unction of the spe-
cific people we have working here. We
are one of the few profit-seeking compa-
nies with ARPA support over the years.
Q: What's your feeling about BBNg future?
A: I'm going to hold on to my stock!
Q: Do you have any concluding remarks
you'd like to make?
A: Throughout my career here, the place
has been the people. BBN has been largely
successful in selling its R&D because it
has been successful in finding, retaining,
stimulating, and supporting very high
quality people. I've loved working with
the people here, and I hope to bc able to
continue my relationship with them. ß
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NEARNET Becomes
Subsidiary of New BBN ISC
The following article describing NEARNET
is adapted in part from an article that
appeared in theJuly/August I994 issue of
the NSF Network News.
Foltoxving its August 1994 acquisition of
the Bay Area Regional Research Network
(BARRNEV TM) from Stanford University,
BBN has further secured its position as
a leading provider of Internet services.
The acquisition consolidates two of the
nation's major Internet service providers:
BBN's NEARNET sM operation, which pro-
vides Internet access, integration, con-
sulting, security, and training services
for organizations in the Northeast, and
BARRNET, the leading provider of such ser-
vices in the San Francisco Bay Area.
BBN has created BBN Internet Services
Corp. (BBN ISC) to operate the newly
consolidated companies and aggressively
expand their geographic coverage both
within the United States and internation-
ally. BBN ISC also plans to broaden the
range of services it offers its customers,
To maintain the strong local organiza-
tions that are responsive to customers'
regional needs, BBN has created two re-
gional subsidiaries: BBN BARRNET Inc. and
BBN NEARNET Inc., each of which will
have its own directors, officers, and staff.
"This arrangement offers us the checks
and balances we will need to think
globally, but act locally," says BBN ISC
president Dick Edmiston.
BBN ISC currently has an executive
search under way for an experienced,
marketing-oriented CEO, a position cur-
rently being filled by acting CEO Steve
Levy. Meanwhile, the entire BBN ISC op-
eration-including BBN NFARNET'S Net-
work Operation Center and staff--has
moved into a new and expanded facility
at 150 CambridgePark Drive.
A Brief History of NEARNET
NEARNET was created by Boston Univer-
sity, Harvard University, and the Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
in 1989 to support the research and aca-
demic communities, to strengthen the re-
gional competitiveness of New England,
and to meet a growing need for fast, reli-
able information exchange. BBN has op-
erated NEARNET since its-inception.
In June of 1988, James Bruce, vice presi-
dent for Information Systems at MIT;
Stephen Hall, director of the Office of
Information Technology at Harvard; and
John Porter, Vice Provost for Information
Technology at Boston University, began
to discuss linking their three campus
computer networks together. They were
approached by Mark Pullen of the De-
fense Advanced Research Projects Agency
(DARPA), who requested that the new
network include Internet access for sev-
eral local research and development sites
that were losing their ARPANET connec-
tivity because of the decommission of
the ARPANET.
These companies included BBN, Digital
Equipment Corporation (DEC), Encore,
Lincoln Laboratories, MITRE, and Think-
ing Machines. During this time, many or-
ganizations losing their ARPANET access
were migrating to the NSFNET, which
was designed to provide access to super-
computer centers through regional com-
puter networks. These national and local
events formed the impetus for creating
the New England Academic and Research
Network (N,RNET).
NEARNET'S Member Organizations
NEARNET currently provides Internet ac-
cess in Connecticut, Maine, Massachu-
setts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New
York, Rhode Island, and Vermont, Its
membership has diversified over its five-
year history to include many of New
England's universities, colleges, technol-
ogy-based industries and Fortune 100
corporations, as well as government and
private agencies. The Boston Globe has
recently become a NEARNET member, as
have organizations such as Hewlett-
Packard, Ziff-Davis Publishing Company
(through Ziff Information Services), and
the law firm of Hale and Dorr.
In response to demand for mission-critical
Internet services for businesses, BBN re-
cently expanded NEARNET services to New
York and northern New Jersey. The ex-
pansion into New York positions BBN to
take advantage of the large financial ser-
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4ces sector and other opportunities there.
NaRNET'S member organizations currently
include over one million people who ac-
count for approximately 20 percent of the
total U.S. Internet backbone traffic.
Technical Support and Client Services
NEARNET offers its member organizations
high-quality turnkey services to integrate
the Internet into their enterprise-wide
networks. NEARNET also provides ongoing
user and technical support so that mem-
bers can get the most from their Internet
connection. NRNET reaches organizations
across New England, the New York met-
ropolitan area, and northern New Jersey
through established points-of-presence
(POPs). NXET staff provides technical
support, consulting, and user information
services, and maintains a 24~hour-a-da);
7-day-a-week, state-of-the-art Networks
Operations Center. Professional staff over-
see the design, installation, operation, and
performance of every N\RNET node.
NEAR.ET'S Training and Seminars
Since NEARNEI introduced its first user
seminar in September 1989, thousands
of participants have attended the annual
user seminars, mini-seminars, and train-
ing seminars. The seminars have included
speakers such as Mitch Kapor, founder
and chairman of On Technology, Inc., co-
founder and president of the Electronic
Frontier Foundation, and founder of the
Lotus Development Corporation, and
Tracy LaQuey Parkerseducation devel-
opment manager at Cisco Systems, Inc.
and author of the bestseller, The Internet
Companion: A Beginners' Guide to Global
Networking Internet Training.
In response to the overwhelming requests
from the Internet community for more
Internet-specific training, BBN has
created an Internet Training Group. In
conjunction with the NEARNEI staff, the
Training Group has begun offering train-
ing courses to the general public. (To find
out more about BBN's internet Training
Courses, please send eraall to: net-
train@bbn. com or call 617-873-3282.)
NEARNET'S K-12 Activities
An important part of NEARNET'S mission
is to provide Internet services [or the
kindergarten through twelfth grade (K-
12) educational community. NEARNEI
currently allows its members to provide
guest accounts to the K-12 community.
This arrangement enables members
working on K-12 projects in their com-
munities or supporting K-12 organiza-
tions through partnership programs to
provide access to the Intcrnet. Further-
more, NE^RNEI has made arrangements
with member university systems to have
those members provide K-12 access for
statewide projects. For example, the Uni-
versity of New Hampshire (UNH) allows
K-12 teachers participating in tle New
Hampshire State project to access the
Internet through UNH.
NE^RNET also connects K-12 organizations
directly. Several schools are currently
connected to NE^RNE as part of Phase
One of the National Science Foundation's
National School Network Testbed project.
NEARNEI donated communications equip-
ment and created special membership
arrangements, with reduced fees, [or this
project. NEARNEI also provides network
connection [or schools as part of The
Co-NECT School project, funded by the
New American Schools Development
Corporation, a nonpro[it corporation
established by American corporations
and foundations to support innovative
designs for American schools. ß
Affirmative Action at BBN
BBN is working actively on enhancing its
affirmative action programs, encouraging
diversit}; and making more opportunities
available for women and minorities at the
company The Human Resources staff
want to keep people informed of BBN's
current activities and efforts in this area.
Chris Lanelone, the Human Resources
Representative for the Corporate Services
Division, prepares the affirmative action
plan for BBN. She coordinates BBN's af-
firma five action efforts, and compiles
and analyzes statistical data about appli-
cant flow--whom we interview, hire, and
promote. On the basis of this informa-
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tion BBN outlines its affirmative action
plans for each upcoming year.
Chris explains that we have always done
this kind of analysis to comply with fed-
eral requirements, but at the request of
BBN President and CEO George Conrades,
the company is making affirmative action
a heightened priority "Our overarching
concern is to be sure that we are as di-
verse as we need to be, and to provide
for the development of all our employees
and ensure their ability to contribute to
the company. We need to take action on
several fronts, one of which is affirmative
action," says Conrades.
Chris notes that we are working not just
on recruitment of minorities and women,
but also on leadership training and profes-
sional development for staff. "We are
making an ongoing effort to give women
and minorities the training they need to
move into senior management and tech-
nical roles," she says. Three major areas of
recent af[irnmtive action activities at BBN
have been in college relations, internships
for high school and college students, and
identifying appropriate leadership and
professional development programs for
BBN staff.
College Relations
In working to establish relations with
colleges, BBN has sent representatives to
recruit and to develop a presence at sev-
eral of the historically black colleges,
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qcluding Hampton Institute, Howard
Oniversit); Morehouse College, Morgan
State College, and Spehnan College.
One project that has grown out of the
college relations effort is Tom Blackadar's
work with Morehouse College, a pre-
dominantly black, all-male, four-year
liberal arts college located in Atlanta, GA.
Tom, who is manager of the Systems and
Technologies Division's Hardware Devel-
opment and Manufacturing Department,
knew that Boeing Computer Corporation
in Seattle had donated to Morehouse one
of BBN's GP1000 TM parallel processing
computers, and he offered to set it up for
them. In January 1994, the chairman of
the computer science department at
Morehouse told Tom they were ready to
set up the GP1000.
After attending a BBN meeting at which
Conrades emphasized the importance of
making connections with minority col-
leges, Tom visited Morehouse to help
them get their machine going. When he
:x-ned that the GP1000 will become one
,J! their primary machines for teaching
parallel processor programming, he of-
fered to have BBN help Morehouse set up
an educational consortium with about
twenty other schools using these ma-
chines. BBN is now working on this
project, as well as offering faculty train-
ing courses on parallel processing at
Morehouse.
While at Morehouse, Tom learned that
the college is committed to community
involvement and to working with public
schools. They expressed interest in talk-
ing with members of BBNk Educational
Technologies Department about their
K- 12 educational activities.
BBN has also been invited to help More-
house write grant proposals and to part-
ner with them on some of their projects.
BBN's training programs and their help
with the computer and parallel comput-
ing consortium will contribute to the
'ncation of students who may eventu-
, want to work at BBN, and their train-
ing may make them
stronger candidates.
In all these ways, the
relationship may
prove fruitful to both
BBN and Morehouse.
Internships
In his discussions of
affirmative action,
Conrades has par-
ticutarly stressed the
importance of reach-
ing people early and
working with them until they are ready
to join BBN. The company participated
in several internship programs this sum-
ruer. The Human Resources group worked
with the Teen Work Program, sponsored
by Just-a-Start Corporation, to bring in
summer interns from Cambridge. Just-a-
Start works with Cambridge Rindge and
Latin School and others, supporting
community programs and arranging for
hiring minority summer intern students.
This summer BBN hired ten interns,
seven of whom are minorities.
Aqualyn Laury, a recent graduate of
Spelman College, a predominantly black,
all-female four-year liberal arts college in
Atlanta, worked as an intern in the Edu-
cational Technologies Department this
summer. Aqualyn learned about BBN
from George Conrades, whom she met at
a conference at Spelman. She majored in
mathematics, and she discovered that he
too had been a math major as an under-
graduate. When she told him she was in-
terested in applied math and was looking
[or opportunities in business, he men-
tioned several possible opportunities to
explore on the east coast, including BBN.
Aqualyn took an internship working
with Bruce Goldberg and Ginny Warn
on the Co-NECT project. (Co-NECT is
a project funded by the New American
Schools Development Corporation, a
nonprofit corporation founded by
American corporations and foundations
Ginny Warn and Aqualyn Laury at work on a math resorate guide.
to support innovative designs for public
schools.) This summer she worked on a
math resource guide for teachers in the
Co-NECT schools, and she has reccntly
accepted a full-time position with the
Co-NECT group.
Aqualyn, who comes from San Antonio,
TX and had never been to thc northeast
before this summer, says, "the Education
group at BBN is very nurturing. They're
open and accepting of lots of different
ideas." Of her educational experience at
Spdman College, she COlnlnents, "There
were so many black female role models.
it provided a great support group."
Aqualyn is interested in learning as much
as she can at BBN.
Leadership and Management Training
Along with minorit), recruiting and stu-
dent internships, BBN must address tea&r-
ship training and leadership development,
providing ways for its employees to grow
and advance within the company. "We
know we have to work on this issue," says
Conrades. "It's important [or BBN to be in
balance with the larger society and reflec-
tive of it, and for us to work on develop-
ing everyone to their full potential. We
must do this if we want to remain an at-
tractive organization to potential employ-
ecs as well as potential clients.
"We are fortunate to be able to turn to
kucie Fieldstad, who was recently ap-
pointed to BBN's board of directors. We'll
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benefit from her extensive marketing and
business development experience in in-
ternetworking and multimedia-based ap-
plications, areas of great importance to
BBN's future. We'll also benefit from her
insight and guidance as we work on the
issue of developing women and minori-
ties to assume more senior positions."
As one step in this direction, Don Batsford
of Human Resources is developing a pro-
gram that will identify the training needs
of BBN through one-on-one interviews,
focus groups, and surveys. This will pro-
vide the basis [or a training program
designed to promote and value diversity
within our workforce, offering the lead-
ership tools for our employees to be
successful as they grow with BBN. In
addition, the training group will serve as
consultants and advisors, researching
and recommending appropriate courses
and programs to meet specialized train-
ing requirements.
A New Way of Thinking
Steve Heinrich, Vice President of Human
Resources and BBN's director of Equal
Employment Opportunity programs, says,
"Naturally things won't change overnight,
but we've opened the doors to a new way
of thinking at BBN. For example, wc are
now targeting a broader cross section of
colleges to provide a greater number of
highly qualified minority and female
candidates."
"The commitment is now here to change
the mix at BBN to reflect more accurately
the society at large," Steve says. "We will
be seeing additional emphasis placed on
each manager's commitment to affirma-
tive action for women and minorities.
The changes will be gradual, but we are
trying to build a foundation for some-
thing that will be self-sustaining." ß
Voice Commands for
Traffic Information
You may be one of the ten thousand
travelers a day who call 374-1234,
SmartRoute Systems' SmarTraveler
phone-in service for up-to-the-minute
traffic information on your commuting
route to or from work. If so, you'll be
interested to know that BBN has added
a new experimental feature to the sys-
tem that eliminates the usual keypad
interface for specifying your route.
Now, thanks to an integration of the
BBN Hark TM speech recognizer with the
SmarTraveter audiotex system, you can
speak your route and get real-time trav-
eler information.
This is the first speech recognition appli-
cation for any federally sponsored Intelli-
gent Vehicle Highways Systems (IVHS)
Operational Test. IVHS is sponsored by
the Federal Highway Administration and
is aimed at reducing congestion, reduc-
ing the environmental impact of highway
vehicles, and increasing safety. IVHS is
an emerging industry with projected
sales in the public and private sectors of
more than $200B over the next 15 years.
More than half of that total is expected to
be in areas related to Advanced Traveler
Information Systems (ATIS), aimed spe-
cifically at reducing congestion. A key
ATIS service is providing detailed traffic
information on demand.
Teaming with Cambridge-based
SmartRoute Systems, BBN's Sensor
Systems Technologies (SST) and Human-
Computer Cottaborative Systems busi-
ness units configured a phone access
demonstration system based on BBN's
Hark recognizer. Key BBN technical
contributors include Greg Duckworth,
Scott Carlson, Kristin Kupres, and
Bruce Papazian. Said Jack Heine, SST
Manager of Business Development,
"Voice recognition as an alternative to
telephone touch tones and kiosk key-
boards has tremendous potential for
IVHS traveler information systems. We
needed a real-time demonstration we
could access from everywhere in the
country to get customers' attention, and
the SmarTraveler system was a perfect
opportunity."
To access the touch-tone version of
SmarTraveler, users dial 374-1234 and
follow instructions to use touchtones to
get up-to-the-minute traffic information
for a specific route. For example, they
can press 2 followed by the star key to
get traveler information for Route 2, the
Fresh Pond Parkway, and Storrow Drive.
On a typical day, SmarTraveler fields
10,000 calls and has had as many as
18,000 calls on days with poor weather.
Drawbacks to the current touchtone
interface are that the number of routes
that can be accessed must be limited, so
that each route must cover a number of
route sections, and that a driver must
divert attention to the phone keypad to
get information while en route.
The BBN speech recognizer prompts the
user to speak a route request and will
recognize a specific route section, such
as "Fresh Pond Parkway," without re-
quiring the driver to understand or ac-
cess the higher level route architecture.
Duckworth, the Systems Engineer for
this project, sees this as a promising op-
portunity to interest cellular telephone
companies, which now provide the
SmarTraveler service to their customers,
in supporting development of an
expanded multi-line capability using
multiple recognizers.
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Employee Anniversaries
ß The following list includes anniversaries
that have occurred from May 1994 through
October 1994.
35 Years
Preston Smith [ Edward Starr
30 Years
Douglas Steele
25 Years
Howard Briscoe Anthony Michel
20 Years
Michael Beelet Richard Pew
Bill Huggins Elaine Spiro
Biagio Mitrano Norman Westlake
Rafal Mlawski
15 Years
Hank Baig Michael Krasner
Carl Cascio Carol Luddecke
Ruth Chatterton Elizabeth O'Neil
Brian Donahue Edward Tkachuk
Paul Horwitz Mark Whitney
10 Years
Justin Aborn John Lowry
Josefa Alvafez Leslie Madden
Robert Bartlett Robert Masters
Edgar Burkett John Miner
Ihomas Caldem'ood Priscilla Molea
Frank Cardillicchio John Montjoy
Rosemary Carter John Oliveira
Alan Dahlbom Barbara Reisdorf
Jeffrey Davis Michael Reynolds*
Heidi Dempsey Richard Rourke
Robert Fields Kenneth Schroder
Jurgen Georgs* Varda Shaked
Griffith Harrison Ronald Singleton
David Johnston Kathleen Sullivan
Kathy Kerby Julie Tiao*
Francis Kubala Edward Vaccam
Donnalee Lane Ralph Weischedd
Kenneth Likis Theresa Whitestone
Martha Lillie John Wiggins*
Susan LoPrete Robert Willis
5 Years
Steven Avruch
Dennis Berry
Roy Booth
Steven Vanden
Bosch
Kathryn Brennan
Maeve Brennan
Brian Brock
Gregory Brown*
Isidro Castineyra
Ana Cecilio
Martin Clark
William Coney
Michael Corcoran
Therese Cwikla
Tony Davis
Leo Dopson
Joseph Dow
Beverly Duquette
John Eldridge
Peter Farina
Thomas Finn
Christina Fulkerson
Mary Galluzzo
Lisa Giberti
Virginia
Gosdanian*
Jeffrey Granger
William Harris
Kathleen Heidt
Leianne Imaoka
Makiko Kamamoto
Theodore Kral
Heather Lamarre
Anne Leaman
Vinh Luong
Richard Lyons
Robin Martin
Markutter
Mcintosh
Jonathan
McLaughlin
--Charles Miksis
Joseph Musacchia
Patricia O'Donnell
Anthony Palazola
Rose Marie Pascale
Terese Patterson
Paul Placeway
Kelly Pollsson
John Price
Kristin Ragucci
Catherine Rocchio
Ira Scharf
Beverly Schwartz
Harold Shallman
Lisa Sebelt
Laura Silvafi-Fidell
Janine Silver
Man-Hung Siu
Karen Sivret
Valerie Smith
Lenore Gauthier
Smith
Vik Solera
Donald Sutton
Barbara Taylor
Elizabeth
Thoenen*
Gary Torressen
David Trasatti
Irene Walborsky
Guyton Watkins*
Jane Wojcik
Clivc Wilmot
Jeffrey Zuccaro
*Denotes LghtStrcam employee
Ungar Receives Gold Medal
from ASM E
Eric Ungar, a Chief Engineer at BBN
and member of the Physical Scienses
Business Unit of BBN Systems and
Technologies, has been selected by
the America[ Society of Mechanical
Engineers (ASME) to receive the 1994
Per Bruel Gold Medal for Noise Control
and Acoustics.
The Per Bruel Gold Medal, the preemi-
nent medal awarded by ASME's Noise
Control and Acoustics Division, is "for
fundamental contributions to noise and
vibration control engineering involving
structural damping, vibration isolation,
and vibrations of complex structures, as
applied to aerospace vehicles, ships, ma-
chinery, and buildings." Formal presen-
tation of the medal will take place at the
President's Luncheon during the Winter
Annual Meeting of ASME November
1994, in Chicago, IL. ß
Papers and Publications
Charlie Berger, Bob Blauth, Reinhart
Richter, and Dave Walden from BBN
contributed to a special issue of The
Center for Quality Management Journal,
vol.2, no. 4, Fall 1993. They are among
the authors of a paper entitled "Kano's
Methods of Undcrstanding Customer-
Defined Quality."
A paper by Dave Walden, "Thoughts on
Goals and Metrics," will appear in Thc
Center for Quality Management Journal,
vol.3, no. 1, Winter 1994, pp. 33-38. ß
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New Principal and Division
Scientists and Engineers
The Science Development Program
recognizes the outstanding technical
accomplishments of some of BBN's staff
members by promoting them to the po-
sitions of Chief, Principal, and Division
Scientist. Brief biographies of this year's
appointees follow.
New Principal Scientists
Greg Duckworth earned an Sc.D. degree
in 1983 in electrical engineering and
oceanographic engineering from the
Joint Program of MIT and the Woods
Hole Oceanographic Institution. In
1987, Dr. Duckworth joined BBN's Un-
derwater Technologies Division and is
currently in the Acoustic Sciences and
Technologies Group. His primary focus
has been on the physical analysis of
underwater and noise-control acoustics
problems and the design and develop-
ment of data acquisition, signal process-
ing, and control systems for application
to these areas. Dr. Duckworth has re-
cently provided technical leadership for
the measurement of the scattering of
low-frequency underwater sound inci-
dents at the arctic ice canopy, and he
has been involved with developing a
high-precision-modal and multiple-
sensor-location measurement systems
[or a Navy test facility.
Paul Horwitz received a Ph.D. in phys-
ics from New York University in 1967.
At BBN he works in the Educational
Technologies Department, developing
new computer-based instructional tech-
niques for physics and mathematics. Dr.
Horwitz was a principal investigator of
the National Science Foundation-funded
ThinkerToots Project, which has a
curriculum and associated software to
teach NewtonJan physics to sixth-grade
students. He developed the award-win-
ning RelLab system for teaching Special
Relativity to high-school and college
students. He is currently principal
investigator for a project exploring
students' difficulties in understanding
genetics. This project is producing a
program called GenSe6pe, an open-
ended, computer-based, exploratory
tool that presents the complex processes
of genetics visually and dynamically and
makes explicit the causal connections
and interactions among them.
Ralph Weischedel received a Ph.D. in
computer science from the University of
Pennsylvania in 1975. Before coming to
BBN in 1984, he was a professor of
computer science for nine years. His
research interests are in artificial intelli-
gence, and, more particularly, natural
language processing and knowledge rep-
resentation. Dr. Weischedel is currently
the principal investigator for three con-
tracts from ARPA: "Research in Auto-
mated Document Processing--TIPSTER
Text Phase II," "Language Modelling for
Text Understanding," and "HOOKAH."
These contracts employ the use of proba-
bilistic algorithms and learning algo-
rithms in linguistically motivated models
of natural language text. The goal of the
approach is to process free text, such as
newswire and technical abstracts, to up-
date a database automatically.
New Division Scientists
Ron Coleman received a Ph.D. in me-
chanical engineering from North Caro-
lina State University in 1984. He joined
BBN's Applied Physics Department in
1985 and has led several projects in the
field of active noise and vibration con-
trol. For the past five years, he has been
the project manager and lead designer
for BBN's development of the Advanced
Vibration Reducer (AVR). Dr. Coleman
is currently managing the development
of control algorithms for the General-
Purpose Noise-Cancellation Processor
(QuietChip).
Henry Olds earned an Ed.D. in children's
language development from Harvard
University in 1968 and joined BBN's
Educational Technologies Department
in 1991. He is co-director of the
Co-NECT project, for which BBN is
using modern technology of many
kinds--computers and software tools,
telephones, fax machines, video and
teleconferencing, and local area net-
works--to create a new approach to
education. Dr. Olds is also co-principal
investigator of a new Teacher Enhance-
ment project funded by the National
Science Foundation to create "The
Mathematical Inquiry Videotapes: Tools
for Professional Growth." ß
Voice Commands
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The current interface has been pilot
tested by a group of SmartRoute and
BBN employees. For the pilot test all
calls are recorded and digitally stored
on disk for a subsequent Human Fac-
tors analysis. BBN is creating a database
and maintaining a tog of system outputs,
which will be reviewed periodically to
assess the system's effectiveness. The
system's vocabulary will be expanded to
new route segments based on results of
the assessment.
SmartRoute Systems is very enthusiastic
about BBN's speech recognizer. David
Stein, Executive Vice President at
SmartRoutes, says that his company is
"ecstatic about the prospects for a voice
recognition traffic information system.
We think it will be a big enhancement
to our product and will meet with ex-
treme favor among federal highway
officials because it enhances safety and
accessibility to traffic information."
BBN staff are invited to participate in
the voice recognition trial by calling
494-9425. ß
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1993 SDP Publications and
Patent Awards
In October 1992, BBN's Science Develop-
ment Progrmn (SDP), which promotes
scientific and professional staff develop-
ment at BBN, established a company-
wide incentive program that encourages
staff to publish technical artictcs and
books as well as file patent applications.
Publications Awards
This year the Publications and Patents
Awards Committee, chaired by John
Makhoul, gave cash awards for 15 publi-
cations written by the following staff
members: Marilyn Adams, Madeleine
Bates, Rusty Bobrow, Lyman Chapin,
Herb Gish. Paul Horwitz, Gregor},
McDaniet, Craig Partridge, Subramanian
Ramanathan, Bruce Rob-rts, Robin
Rohlicek, Richard Schwartz, Larry Sher,
Martha Steenstrup, Ralph Weischedet,
and Ying Zhao.
Patents Awards
The committee gave cash awards for five
patent applications submitted by the fol-
lowing staff: David Getty, Herb Gish, Bill
Huggins, Philippe Jeanrenaud, Richard
Madden, John McDonough, Kenny Ng,
Long Nguyen, Robin Rohlicek, Richard
Schwartz. and Istvan Vcr.
Outstanding Publication Awards
The SDP has also established the Out-
standing Publication Award, for publica-
tions that have appeared m print and
that a committee of senior staff have
judged to be of high qualit},: The winners
of the I994 awards were Bruce Roberts,
for a paper in the area of computer and
comnmnication sciences, and two young
authors, Subrananian P, amanathan and
Gregory McDaniel. ß
BBN Reports
BBN Report No. 7842B, Encryption of
Asynchronous Circuits Using the KG-
84A, Norman Westlake
BBN Report No. 7920, Advanced Net-
work Management (ANM): User's Guide
for ANM Release 5.43, BBN Network
Services
BBN Report No. 7921, Advanced Net-
work Management (ANM): Installation
Guide for ANM release 5.4, David
Waltzman
BBN Report No. 7941, Development of
Instrument Approach Plate Display
Technology to Support the Management
of Approach Plate Information Study
(MAPLIST), Nichael Cramer and Carl
E. Feehrer
BBN Report No. 7961, Research, Devel-
opment, Training and Evaluation Sup-
port (RDT&E), Williron J. Saher
BBN Report No. 7967, Reciprocity-
based Experimental Determination of
Dynamic Forces and Moments: A Feasi-
bility Study, Istvan Vet
BBN Report No. 7979, Research, Devel-
opment, Training and Evaluation Sup-
port (RDT&E), William 5aher, Mark
Burstein, and David Getty
BBN Report No. 7980, Evaluation of
Subscriber-based Cost Recovery Model
for NIHnet, Cynthia Mills
BBN Report No. 7982, Configuration of
the OCONUS Bulk Modems for DDN
Applications, Norman Westlake
BBN Report No. 7983, Toward a Meth-
odology for Defining Situation Aware-
ness Requirements--A Progress Report,
Stephen E. Deutsch, Richard XV Pew,
William Rogers, and Yvette J. Tenney
BBN Report No. 7990. Effects of Sinre-
lated Sonic Booms on the Hatchability
of White Leghorn Chicken Eggs, Mat-
thew Sneddon
BBN Report No. 7996, Requirements for
the Operator's Assistant, Elizabeth
Montanye
BBN Report No. 7998, Internet Traffic
and Connection Analysis, Karen
Mclthenny
BBN Rcport No. 8000, MTAC Through-
put Investigation, Mar}, Akers
BBN Report No. 8002B, Integrated High
Performance Distributed System Soft-
ware Design Document, Edward E
Walker
BBN Report No. 8004, Integrated High
Performance Distributed System Soft-
ware User's Manual, Christopher Barber
BBN Report No. 8005, Integrated High
Performance Distributed System Soft-
ware Operator's Manual, Christopher
Barber
BBN Report No. 8008, Real-time Data
Analysis and Acquisition Systems Soft-
ware Design Document (and Appendi-
ces), Nancy Aramaki
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BBN
BBN Names Fjeldstad to Board
In August, BBN appointed LucieJ. Fjeld-
stad to the board of directors, filling a
vacancy created by the departure of John
^. Gilmanin, who resigned to concen-
trate on other responsibilities. Fjeldstad
is president and CEO of Fieldstad Inter-
national, an independent consulting
group that advises corporate clients in
the computing, telecommunications, me-
dia/entertainment, and consumer elec-
tronics industries.
A veteran executive with more than 25
years' experience at IBM, Fieldstad was
also instrumental in negotiating strategic
alliances for multimedia, creating inde-
pendent business subsidiaries, and estab-
lishing the company's Internet strategy.
BBN STD
BBN Introduces an Internet Server
for School Networks
In June, BBN Systems and Technologies
unveiled the BBN Internet Server TM, an
Internet server [or school networks that
is a complete, easy-to-use, }mrdwam and
software package. This meets the current
demand for Internet access in K-12 schools
due to current educational reforms.
The product provides a full4eatured,
UNIX-based Internet server that teachers
and students can use to construct and
manage their own network resources
from their desktop computers. The server
supports a range of Internet services, and
BBN offers any consulting and training
that the schools may need in site prepa-
ration, establishing a full connection to
an Internet service provider, configuring
personal computers to interact with the
Internet, managing the server, construct-
ing information resources on it, and
planning end-user training.
The BBN Internet Server grew out of two
years of research and development within
the National School Network Testbed,
a partnership funded in part by the Na-
tional Science Foundation to develop
and better understand technologies that
will support universal participation in
the National Information Infrastructure.
BBN's TotalView TM Multiprocess
Debugger Available for the Alpha
AXP Workstation
TotalViewm--BBN's fast, easy-to-use
source-level debugger--is available for
Digital Equipment Corporation's Alpha
AXP RISC workstation running the OSF/1
operating system. With TotalView soft-
ware, programmers can view and debug
all aspects of their applications--source,
variables, and multiple processes--si-
multaneously. They can debug applica-
tions that run on multiple workstations,
making network distributed debugging a
reality.
TotalView has a point-and-click interface,
on-line help, and easy menus. It provides
source-level debugging for C, C++, and
FORTRAN as well as support for assem-
bly and mixed source/assembler debug-
ging. TotalView software requires no
special make files and imposes no re-
strictions on code or symbol table size.
BBN Internet Services
Corporation (BBN ISC)
Recently BBN ISC has expanded its
NEARNET Internet services to the New
York metropolitan area, lowered their
prices, acquired the Bay Area Regional
Research Network (BARRNET), and cre-
ated a training group (see related stop,,,
on NEARNET, p. 7).
Expansion to New York
BBN ISC has expanded its NEARNET Inter-
net services to the New York and north-
ern New jersey metropolitan area. There,
the financial services and publishing in-
dustries traditionally have been reluctant
to join the Internet commumty because
of fears about security and reliability of
service. BBN ISCs custom security ser-
vices and reliable support should go a
long way toward convincing them that
their internal networks can remain se-
cure. BBN ISC has also reduced its prices
for its Internet services, in a bid for even
greater market share.
BARRNET Acquisition Merges Internet
Services on Two Coasts
BBN has recently acquired tile Bay Area
Regional Research Network (BARIiNET)
from Stanford. which has served since
1986 as the principal Internet service
provider in the San Francisco Bay area.
BBN's extensive NEARNET service offerings
and 25 years' experience with network
technology were cited as key factors in
Stanford's decision to sell BARRNET tO BBN.
BARRNET provides Internet access to more
than 200 leading San Francisco Bay Area
businesses and research, universits; and
medical facilities, including Apple Com-
puter, Hewlett-Packard, the NASA Ames
Research Center, four University of
California campuses, and Stanford itself.
BARRNET also is a key part of the "Com-
mercenet" project, under which tile fed-
eral and state governments have proreded
an $8-mitlion grant to help Bay area busi-
nesses make commercial use of the Infor-
mation Superhighway.
On the East Coast, NEARNET clients in-
elude corporations such as Polaroid,
Raytheon, and Lotus, as well as medical
facilities such as Massachusetts General
Hospital, Beth Israel Hospital, and the
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Harvard,
M1T, Boston University, Yale, and Dart-
mouth also use Nearnet to access the
Internet.
New Training Group/Services
The BBN ISC Internet Training Group
offers a full range of Internet training
courses to help organizations make stra-
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tegic business use of the Internet. The
curriculum is open to the public, and
provides a key service for organizations
wanting to maximize their existing Inter-
net investments. It also makes BBN ISC
the most complete Internet service pro-
vider, with programs ranging from net-
work consulting and integration to
Internet access services to business and
technical training. The BBN ISC Internet
Training Group's curriculum develop-
ment team includes Mary Cronin, author
of the best-selling book Doing Business
on the lntcrnet.
BBN SPC
BBN Names John Kish Head of SPC
In June, BBN Software Products Corpo-
ration got a new president and CEO in
John T. Kish, who also will serve on its
board of directors. He has also been
elected a vice president of BBN. Kish
comes from Oracle Corporation, where
',e served as the vice president, Desktop
.;ivision, and most recently as the senior
vice president, Business Development.
There he was instrumental in creating
strategic development and marketing
partnerships with companies such as
Apple, British Telecom, Microsoft, Novell,
IBM, and Lotus, as well as strategic
alliances with Bell Atlantic and US West.
The addition of John Kish supports
BBN's overall strategy to enhance and
expand worldwide sales and marketing
capabilities.
RS/1 Release 5.0 Enhances
External Interface
In September, BBN Software Products an-
nounced significant enhancements to its
RS/1 © data-analysis software to improve
integration with other applications and
data sources in a networked computing
environment. The new Interprocess
Communications Interface enables the
exchange of commands, control, and
data between RS-based applications and
other external applications on remote
and local computers. This new function-
ality facilitates RS/t integration within a
heterogeneous computing environment.
RS/1 is one of the most widely used data
analysis software packages in manufactur-
ing, engineering and research. RS/1 pro-
vides statistical and analytic functionalit)'
needed by technical professionals to solve
data driven problems. RS/I's unique flex-
ibility and extensibility lets users develop
and share customized solutions across
multiple computing environments.
MicroNova electronic GmbH
to Distribute BBN/Probe
Data Analysis Software
MicroNova electronic GmbH will distrib-
ute BBN/Probe TM in Germany, Austria,
and Switzerland. (The BBN/Probe group
has recently moved from BBN STD to
BBN SPC.) The German company is the
first of several distributors expected to
sell the BBN/Probe product line interna-
tionally. BBN/Probe is the leading time-
series, visual data analysis software for
engineering data applications.
In addition to direct sales and system
integration, MicroNova will provide
BBN/Probe software customers in the
German region with hot-line support,
application consulting, and educational
services, In addition, BBN's current
German customers will benefit from
MicroNova's experience and capabilities.
LightStream
LightStream CEO Appointed
Vice President of BBN
BBN's board of directors elected
LightStream CEO Jonathan Crane a vice
president of the cornpan); making all
presidents of BBN's operating units
company vice presidents. Crane, who
was appointed president and CEO of
LightStream Corporation--BBN's Asyn-
chronous Transfer Mode (ATM) net-
working subsidiary--in February 1994,
will continue in that capacit 5 Hc bas
stated that one of his major goals is to
make LightStream a leader in ATM switch
technology and customer scrvice (see
profile in the May 1994 Digest issue).
Already this year the company has sold
seven of its LightStream TM 2010 Enter-
prise ATM switches to Continental
Cablevision's New England dMsion, en-
tered into a distribution agreement with
Japan's NEC Corporation, and signed a
technology licensing agreement with
Tellabs Operations, Inc., a voice and data
equipment manufacturer, to jointly de-
velop and distribute ATM switching sys-
tems in the information-services market.
LightStream, BBN, and NEC to
Expand ATM Relationship
BBN will enter a broad-based relationship
to jointly develop nmltiplexing products
based on Asynchronous Transfer Mode
technology with NEC Corporation and
LightStream. NEC and LightStream plan
to jointly develop an ATM-based multi-
plexing system. The partners expect the
new multiplexing system to be used at
the core of new multimedia networks.
This agreement builds upon previously
established relationships among NEC,
BBN, and LightStream.
Currently, NEC is reselling the
LightStream rM 2010 ATM platform in
Japan while LightStream resdis BBN's
T/10 TM Integrated Access Device. NEC
and BBN arc also considering expanding
their current relationship to include joint
product development in other areas. ß
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Julie Donahue Named CEO of New BBN HARK Systems Corporation
On October 17, 1994, BBN announced
thc establishment of BBN HARK Systems
Corporation, a new subsidiar); and
named Julie Donahue as its chief execu-
tive officer. The new unit will develop
and sell BBN's HARK TM line of speech
recognition products. Donahue was also
named to the board of directors of the
subsidiary.
Donahue, age 35, was most recently
president and chief operating officer of
Voice Processing Corporation, where she
was responsible for establishing numeb
ous OEM agreements and for creating
partnerships with such major desktop
application companies as Microsoft,
WordPerfect, Lotus, and Borland.
In her previous position, she was a se-
nior vice president at Dun & Bradstreet
Software, responsible for strategic plan-
ning, mergers and acquisitions, market-
ing, and channel development. She
negotiated key business partnerships
with such companies as Microsoft,
Powersoft, Hewlett-Packard, and Sybase.
She has also held management positions
at Cullinet Software and Motorola/Four
Phase Systems. Donahue received a B.S.
from the Universit), of Pennsylvama and
an MBA from the Wharton School of
Business Administration.
"I am very excited tojoin the BBN family
of companies," said Donahue. "BBN
helped create the field of computer speech
recognition. BBN's large-vocabulary,
speaker-independent, continuous speech
technology is the class of the field. I also
see tremendous potential in collaborating
with the other BBN business units, with
their leadership in computer networking
and distributed applications, to provide
powerful solutions for customer needs.
"Our goal is to drive the mainstream
adoption of speech recognition among
users in telephony and desktop environ-
ments, through increased ease of use,
higher quality, and flexible application
development. HARK's new Release 2.0
makes new categories of form-filling and
information retrieval applications pos-
sible for the first time, including the
exciting new growth area of computer-
telephony integration."
Of the new subsidiary, BBN President
and CEO George Conrades said, ;'We are
delighted to announce the formation of
BBN HARK Systems Corporation with
Julie Donahue as its CEO. Wc believe
that speech recognition will become a
very important interface between people
and computers in the next few years.
BBN researchers have spent two decades
developing outstanding speech technol-
ogy for government customers. With
Julie Donahueg extraordinary business
development skills and her knowledge of
the industry, we intend to convert our
technology leadership into commercial
market success."
Among the customers for the new subsid-
iary's HARK speech recognition products
are: Thomas Cook Travel, Bellcore, Booz
Allen Hamilton, Lawrence Livermore
Labs, koral Federal Systems Cornpan);
Lockheed Sanders, Magnavox, Motorola,
Reuters, Speechcraft. Inc., Sun Micro-
systems, UFA, Inc., Umecorp, and Volt
Delta Resources.
An interview with Donahue will appear
in a future issue of the BBN Digest. ß
BBN Digest
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corporate news. We welcome your suggestions and contributions. Please send
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