George Sadowsky

George Sadowsky

George Sadowsky (born September 30, 1936 in Russia) is an American computer scientist who has worked in a number of entities, related to promotion of the Internet worldwide.

He is well-known all over the world through his decades of work with developing countries. In many of these countries, he was the one to actually bring the Internet, or make it affordable, or help change the legislation, to make sure it minimized government control and regulation.

On August 3, 2013, Sadowsky was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame as a Global Connector.^[1]

Career

Sadowsky's first work was at Combustion Engineering, Inc. (1958–1962), where he was an applied mathematician and programmer for the Nuclear Division. He then went to Yale University (1962–1963), where he was Manager of Operations of Yale Computer Center and Research Assistant in Economics.

For three years (1962–1965), while in graduate school at Yale, Sadowsky was a consultant to government agencies and research projects, e.g. he introduced the use of computers for revenue estimation in the Office of Tax Analysis of the U. S. Treasury Department and developed a large computer-based microanalytic simulation model to analyze the revenue and distributional effects of preliminary versions of the Revenue Act of 1964.

He then went to the Brookings Institution (1966–1970), where he served as Director of the Computer Center, and was a Senior Fellow at the same time.

The next three years Sadowsky spent at The Urban Institute as a Senior Research Staff Member.

In 1973 he joined the United Nations, where he worked until 1986 as technical adviser in Computer Methods, and concurrently as adviser to the Director of the Statistical Office, and performed occasional consulting work for government, research and social service agencies.

In 1986 Sadowsky moved to Northwestern University, where he was a Director for Academic Computing and Network Services until 1990.

The next ten years, until 2000, George was working at the New York University as a Director, Networking Services, Director of Academic Computing Facility.

In 2001 George became Executive Director of the GIPI project, Global Internet Policy Initiative.^[2]

Boards

He has served as Chair of the Nominating Committee, at Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), 2005. He is a member of the Board of Directors, and Secretary for the Digital Policy Institute.

Like Vint Cerf, Sadowsky served as a member of the Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov's IT Advisory Council from March 2002 till January 2012.

Sadowsky was a member of the Election Committee of the Internet Society, 2005-2006.

He also serves on the Board of Directors of Peoplink, and is a member of the Board of Advisers of Bridge to Asia.

Sadowsky has served on the Board of Trustees of the Internet Society during 1996-1999 and 2000-2004.

In August 2009 Sadowsky was appointed to serve on the ICANN board.^[3]

References

↑ "Internet Hall of Fame Announces 2013 Inductees". Internet Hall of Fame. 26 June 2013. Retrieved August 3, 2013.
↑ http://www.internetpolicy.net
↑ "ICANN 2009 Nominating Committee Selectees". Announcement. ICANN. 28 August 2009. Retrieved 2009-08-29.

External links

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Internet Hall of Fame

Pioneers

2012	Paul Baran^† Vint Cerf Danny Cohen Steve Crocker Donald Davies^† Elizabeth J. Feinler Charles Herzfeld Robert Kahn Peter T. Kirstein Leonard Kleinrock John Klensin Jon Postel^† Louis Pouzin Lawrence Roberts

2013	David Clark David Farber Howard Frank Kanchana Kanchanasut J. C. R. Licklider^† Bob Metcalfe Jun Murai Kees Neggers Nii Quaynor Glenn Ricart Robert Taylor Stephen Wolff Werner Zorn

2014	Douglas Engelbart^† Susan Estrada Frank Heart Dennis Jennings Rolf Nordhagen^† Radia Perlman

Global connectors

2012	Randy Bush Kilnam Chon Al Gore Nancy Hafkin Geoff Huston Brewster Kahle Daniel Karrenberg Toru Takahashi Tan Tin Wee

2013	Karen Banks Gihan Dias Anriette Esterhuysen Steve Goldstein Teus Hagen Ida Holz Qiheng Hu Haruhisa Ishida^† Barry Leiner^† George Sadowsky

2014	Dai Davies Demi Getschko Masaki Hirabaru^† Erik Huizer Steven Huter Abhaya Induruwa Dorcas Muthoni Mahabir Pun Srinivasan Ramani Michael Roberts Ben Segal Douglas Van Houweling

Innovators

2012	Mitchell Baker Tim Berners-Lee Robert Cailliau Van Jacobson Lawrence Landweber Paul Mockapetris Craig Newmark Raymond Tomlinson Linus Torvalds Philip Zimmermann

2013	Marc Andreessen John Perry Barlow François Flückiger Stephen Kent Anne-Marie Eklund Löwinder Henning Schulzrinne Richard Stallman Aaron Swartz^† Jimmy Wales

2014	Eric Allman Eric Bina Karlheinz Brandenburg John Cioffi Hualin Qian Paul Vixie

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