Barry Leiner is a Senior Scientist with Universities Space
Research Association (USRA), where he is providing technical
support to the Federal High Performance Computing and
Communications Program. During his tenure at DARPA from 1980 to
1985, he was responsible for a variety of programs in networking
including the Internet research program. Since that time, he has
been particularly interested in network support of scientific
collaboration (e.g. telescience, collaboratory). He is currently
focussed on the use of the network to support software exchange
and reuse. He has been on the IAB since its inception and serves
as its representative to the Coordinating Committee for
Intercontinental Research Networks. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical
Engineering from Stanford University.