MEDIA ADVISORY

INTERNET PIONEERS CERF, FARBER TAKE THE STAGE

WHO: Internet pioneers Vint Cerf and David Farber

WHAT: A conversation titled "The Internet Tidal Wave Is It Inevitable?"

WHEN: 4:30 p.m., Thursday, March 21, 2002

WHERE: Heilmeyer Hall in the Towne Building on Smith Walk between 33rd and 34th streets on the Penn campus in Philadelphia (across 33rd Street from the Palestra and Franklin Field)

Vint Cerf and David Farber, pioneers of the Internet, will meet at the University of Pennsylvania for a discussion of the Internet revolutionary impact on our lives. The two men, widely renowned for their early and ongoing work to foster the growth of the Internet, will discuss its origins and its future.

Cerf and Farber talk will include questions from audience members in the audi-torium and linked from afar via Internet2. The event, to take place at 4:30 p.m., Thursday, March 21, in the Towne Building on Penn campus, is free and open to the public, but seating is limited.

Cerf and his colleagues have been widely heralded as the founders of the Inter-net. Now senior vice president of Internet architecture and technology at WorldCom, he is the co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet. Cerf is also a proponent for the progress of social and policy issues raised by global networking.

Called "the Paul Revere of Cyberspace" by Wired magazine, Farber holds ap-pointments in Penn departments of Computer and Information Science and Electrical Engineering and at Penn Wharton School. He recently served as chief technologist at the Federal Communications Commission, dealing with issues such as the convergence of communications and computing technologies and the infusion of Internet technology into the nation communications system.

The talk is sponsored by Penn School of Engineering and Applied Science and Penn Information Systems and Computing, in cooperation with WorldCom.