BIOGRAPHY

RICHARD VAN SLYKE Dr. Richard Van Slyke is Professor Computer Science Emeritus at Polytechnic University. He was Head of the Department of Computer and Information Science there during 1995-1996. From 1983 to 1988 he was Director of New York State's Center for Advanced Technology in Telecommunications at Polytechnic. During that period he started two industry oriented masters degree programs in Telecommunications Management and Information Systems Engineering. He also initiated Forums on Telecommunications Practice, monthly forums which ran for over eleven years, providing telecommunications professionals information on the latest in telecommunication technology and management techniques. He retired in 2006.

He is currently developing distributed optimization systems.

In 1969, he helped start the Network Analysis Corporation (NAC), a telecommunications consulting firm. He served in executive capacities and as a member of its Board of Directors until 1980 when NAC--at that point 100 employees strong--was sold to Continental Telephone. He spent 1980 to 1983 as a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Stevens Institute of Technology. As a consultant, Professor Van Slyke worked with five of the six largest U.S. banks, AT&T, NYNEX, E.F. Hutton, Metropolitan Life, the Defense Department, Perkin-Elmer, Merck, RCA, WUI, and many other users and providers of information services. He has over forty publications in books, technical journals, and the popular press. He served as Vice Chairman of the IEEE's Committee on Computer and Information Policy (1988-1990) and served on the Board of Directors of the Telecommunications Cooperative Network, an organization providing information services to more than 750 non-profit organizations. He also served on the Telecommunications Educational Advisory Council of the National Engineering Consortium.

Dr. Van Slyke received a B.S. in Physics from Stanford in 1959, and a Ph.D. in Engineering Science from Berkeley in 1965. He was also on the faculty of the University of California from 1965 to 1969.

R. Van Slyke, 8/29/2006