Kevin Barron

Kevin Barron is Director of Information Systems at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, located at the University of California, Santa Barbara. A graduate of the Film production and Communications programs at Simon Fraser University, he began working in network communications in 1983. These projects have spanned a wide range of countries and collaborators, and were undertaken for clients ranging from the United Nations to John Cleese. In 1997 Kevin took an active role in CENIC (www.cenic.org), which built an all-optical, advanced network in California. As founding chair of the Advanced Applications Council for CENIC, he developed a keen awareness of the capabilities of this Internet2 network and the challenges faced by those seeking to use it. Kevin is a contributing author to two best-selling books on the Internet, and has given many seminars, classes, and presentations on the subject of advanced networking.

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