Speakers

Professor Partridge is the chair of the Department of Computer Science at the CSU College of Natural Resources. Prior to joining CSU he worked for 35 years at Raytheon BBN Technologies, including as chief scientist for networking research overseeing projects primarily funded by the U.S. Department of Defense. He is best known for designing how email is routed over the internet and for his contributions to the development of multi-gigabit internet routers. For this work, he was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2017. President Biden appointed him to the President’s Committee on the National Medal of Science, which evaluates candidates for the prestigious award. He is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences’ Computer Science and Telecommunications Board and former chair of the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Data Communications. Partridge received his A.B. in history and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in computer science from Harvard University. He has held adjunct faculty positions at Stanford University and the University of Michigan and is a fellow of the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers and the Association of Computing Machinery.

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