New Leader for Advanced Internet Group for Education

H. David Lambert is going to be the new president of Internet2, the advanced networking consortium for the research and education community. His appointment was announced today. Mr. Lambert, now the vice president for information services at Georgetown University, gets to run an organization that, along with several partners, just scored a $62.5-million grant from the federal government to build a new network based on facilities run by colleges and universities and regional and state research and education networks. The new grid is intended to connect communities and give them access to advanced, high-speed Internet applications.