George Sadowsky
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George Sadowsky is an American
United States
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 computer scientist
Computer scientist
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 who has worked in a number of entities, related to promotion of the Internet worldwide.

He is well-known all over the world through his decades of work with developing countries. In many of these countries, he was the one to actually bring the Internet, or make it affordable, or help change the legislation, to make sure it minimized government control and regulation.

Career

Sadowsky's first work was at Combustion Engineering, Inc. (1958–1962), where he was an applied mathematician and programmer for the Nuclear Division. He then went to Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

 (1962–1963), where he was Manager of Operations of Yale Computer Center and Research Assistant in Economics.

For three years (1962–1965), while in graduate school at Yale, Sadowsky was a consultant to government agencies and research projects, e.g. he introduced the use of computers for revenue estimation in the Office of Tax Analysis of the U. S. Treasury Department and developed a large computer-based microanalytic simulation model to analyze the revenue and distributional effects of preliminary versions of the Revenue Act of 1964
Revenue Act of 1964
The United States Revenue Act of 1964 , also known as the Tax Reduction Act, was a bipartisan tax cut bill signed by President Lyndon Johnson on February 26, 1964. Individual income tax rates were cut across the board by approximately 20%...

.

He then went to the Brookings Institution
Brookings Institution
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 (1966–1970), where he served as Director of the Computer Center, and was a Senior Fellow at the same time.

The next three years Sadowsky spent at The Urban Institute as a Senior Research Staff Member.

In 1973 he joined the United Nations
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, where he worked until 1986 as technical adviser in Computer Methods, and concurrently as adviser to the Director of the Statistical Office, and performed occasional consulting work for government, research and social service agencies.

In 1986 Sadowsky moved to Northwestern University
Northwestern University
Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....

, where he was a Director for Academic Computing and Network Services until 1990.

The next ten years, until 2000, George was working at the New York University
New York University
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 as a Director, Networking Services, Director of Academic Computing Facility.

In 2001 George became Executive Director of the GIPI project, Global Internet Policy Initiative.

Boards

He has served as Chair of the Nominating Committee, at Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), 2005. He is a member of the Board of Directors, and Secretary for the Digital Policy Institute.

Like Vint Cerf
Vint Cerf
Vinton Gray "Vint" Cerf is an American computer scientist, who is recognized as one of "the fathers of the Internet", sharing this title with American computer scientist Bob Kahn...

, Sadowsky is a member of the Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov
Georgi Parvanov
Georgi Sedefchov Parvanov is a President of Bulgaria, whose second and last mandate expires on January 22, 2012; he was elected after defeating his predecessor Petar Stoyanov in the second round of the presidential elections in November 2001 and he came into office on January 22, 2002...

's IT Advisory Council, assigned with a Presidential Decree on March 8, 2002.

Sadowsky was a member of the Election Committee of the Internet Society
Internet Society
The Internet Society or ISOC is an international, nonprofit organization founded during 1992 to provide direction in Internet related standards, education, and policy...

, 2005-2006.

He also serves on the Board of Directors of Peoplink, and is a member of the Board of Advisers of Bridge to Asia.

Sadowsky has served on the Board of Trustees of the Internet Society
Internet Society
The Internet Society or ISOC is an international, nonprofit organization founded during 1992 to provide direction in Internet related standards, education, and policy...

 in 1996-1999 and 2000-2004.

In August 2009 Sadowsky was appointed to serve on the ICANN board.

External links

  • Site of Sadowsky
  • PUNKCAST#33 - 'The Future of The Internet' ISOC-NY webcast - NYU - Jan 17 2000 (mp3
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    )
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