Quantifying Internet performance and the worldwide digital divide: the emergence of Africa
Channel: Let's Talk Network
Date: 2011-09-23

http://wiki.letstalknetwork.tv/index.php?title=Quantifying_Internet_performance_and_the_worldwide_digital_divide%3A_the_emergence_of_Africa_-_Dr._Roger_Leslie_Cottrell

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Dr Leslie Cottrell iWeek 2011 Presentation 
**http://www.iweek.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/africa-sep11.pdf

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I left the University of Manchester, England in 1967 with a Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics to pursue fame and fortune on the Left Coast of the U.S.A. I joined SLAC as a research physicist in High Energy Physics, focusing on real-time data acquisition and analysis in the 1990 Nobel prize winning group that discovered the quark. In 1972/3, I spent a years leave of absence as a visiting scientist at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, and in 1979/80 at the IBM U.K. Laboratories at Hursley, England, where I obtained United States Patent 4,688,181 for a a dynamic graphical cursor.

I was a leader of the effort that, in 1994, resulted in the first permanent Internet connection to mainland China. In 2002/3, I was the co-PI of teams that captured the Internet2 Land Speed Record twice, a feat that was entered in the Guinness Book of World Records and also earned us the CENIC 2003 On the Road to a Gigabit, Biggest Fastest in the West award. In 2003, 2004, and for a third time in 2005 I was the co-leader of the teams that won the SuperComputing Bandwidth Challenge for the maximum bandwidth utilization.

I am also the PI of the DoE funded Internet End-to-end Performance Monitoring (IEPM) project which has attracted funding of almost $2M since 1997. I am the SLAC PI of the DoE funded Terapaths project, the SLAC/NIIT/MAGGIE project, and the collaboration with ICTP, Trieste.

Networking and distributed computing technology are my main activities. In particular I am focusing on network monitoring and high performance networking. More recently I have focused much activity on measuring the Internets Digital Divide in particular as it applies to Developing countries. I am also very interested in the Web, since being at SLAC (the first Web site outside Europe) in the Webs early days I used it and as assistant director of computing was able to actively support its development at SLAC. I also contributed a chapter to the book HTML and CGI Unleashed published by Sams/Macmillan as well as an article to the May 1996 edition of the Web Techniques magazine.

I have other interests beyond computers. I used to run, mainly at weekends, Hash when possible, and commute to work come rain or shine on a bicycle. I enjoyed mountain climbing especially on snow and ice, and hiking in the Sierra back-country. More recently I have taken up golf and am a member of the Stanford Golf Course. I collect stamps, and am also interested in geneology and tracing the family history.