Dr. Craig Partridge is the GPO Outreach Director, responsible for outreach to the academic and corporate community, press relations, education and training, Government liaison, and international liaison. He will also ensure that GENI reaches out to and meets the needs of underserved and disadvantaged members of the research community. Craig has been a senior technical contributor in the research field for many years and has long record of community service. But what made him an appealing choice for Outreach Director is that he has done this job before. From 1986 to 1993, he was the Director of Technical Outreach for the National Science Foundation funded NSF Network Service Center (NNSC), which was responsible for outreach for the first two phases of NSFNET. NSFNET was NSF’s successful effort to expand access to the Internet to the entire educational and technical community (it had previously been restricted to DARPA-funded researchers plus some computer science programs and laboratories). Craig arranged education and training for users and technical personnel, helped put out a quarterly newsletter, and explained NSFNET to the press. Craig was also a founding member of the Internet Engineering Task Force’s (IETF) steering group, where he helped oversee standards work on problems hindering NSFNET deployment, most notably in network management.

Craig is Chief Scientist and Vice President for Networking at BBN. He spends roughly half his time contributing to research projects. His current research is focused on open Software Defined Radios, capable of dynamically adapting their behavior to maintain communication in the face of noise and changing propagation conditions.

Outside BBN, Craig serves as the past-chair of the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group in Data Communication (ACM SIGCOMM), the leading professional society devoted to communications research. As chair, Craig was responsible for substantially expanding the society’s conference offerings into new fields such as network measurement and sensor networks. Craig is co-chair of the Internet Research Task Force’s End-to-End Research Group, which has met since 1983 to provide a forum for researchers interested in problems of moving data between Internet endpoints (hosts). In 2005, Craig co-chaired an NSF study on the future of optical communications research, one of several studies that fed into the GENI effort.

Technically, Craig has made several contributions to data networking. In the 1980s, he designed how Internet email is routed. In the 1990s, he was leader in gigabit networking research. He wrote the standard reference, Gigabit Networking (1993), and led a project that built and demonstrated the first multi-gigabit router. As part of his work on gigabit networks, he also chaired the DARPA/NSF Workshop on the Future of Gigabit Networking in 1994 and the NSF Workshop on Scaleable Information Infrastructure in 1998.

Craig received his A.B., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University. He is a Fellow of both the IEEE and ACM, an associate member of the National Academy of Sciences, and for several years was a consulting professor at Stanford University. Craig holds 6 patents and has published nearly 50 papers in refereed journals and conferences.