Lawrence H. Landweber
Computer Sciences Dept.
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Madison, WI 53706

Lawrence H. Landweber received his B.S. degree in Mathematics from
Brooklyn College and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Purdue
University. He has been on the faculty of the Computer Sciences
Department of the University of  Wisconsin - Madison since 1967,
serving as Department Chair during 1977-79 and 1987-90.

Professor Landweber's early research was in theoretical computer
science. In 1982-83 he was Chair of the Association for Computing
Machinery's Special Interest Group on Automata and Computability.

Since 1977, he has worked in the area of computer networks. An
underlying goal of this activity has been the establishment of 
computer networks to support research and education. In 1979 he  
proposed establishment of CSNET, the  Computer Science Network and
later served as Chair of its Management Committee while the network  
as being developed. Later he worked with NSF on the establishment of
NSFNET.

Professor Landweber has been actively involved in the development of
the international academic/research  internet. From 1984 to 1989 he 
organized an annual International Academic Networkshop, attended  by
network planners, implementors, managers and funders throughout the
world. The first INET conference in 1991 was an outgrowth of these
workshops. When the Internet Society was formed in 1992, the INET
conference became its annual conference. Since 1992, Landweber has
served as Vice President for Conferences of the Internet Society and
as a member of its Board of Trustees.

His recent research has been in the area of high performance networks.
He is leading a project at Wisconsin which is  a  component  of  the
NSF/ARPA/CNRI Gigabit Testbed Project. The emphasis of this research 
has been on congestion control, quality of service issues and protocol
performance. Previously he led the development
(with  IBM  support) of implementations of the TCP/IP protocol suite
for VM (WISCNET), the ISO protocol suite for UNIX and an Internet/OSI  mail
user interface.

Professor Landweber has been a member of the Computer Research 
Association Board of Directors, the CCIRN, the Coordinating Committee on
Intercontinental Research Networks, the Office of Technology Assessment
Advisory  Panel  on Information Technology and Research, three
NSF division scientific advisory committees. a number of IBM
advisory  committees and the National Research Council Committee 
on Computer-Computer Communication Protocols and The Future of the 
NREN. He was Program Chair of the 1988 symposium sponsored by the 
ACM Special Interest Group  on  Communications  and Conference Chair 
for its 1989 symposium.