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 David
M. Lounsbury
VP, The Open Group
David M. Lounsbury is Vice President, Open Group Advanced Research &
Innovation. In this role, he leads activities related to government research,
with a particular focus on developing adaptive and
highly-reliable trusted distributed systems. Recent Advanced Research
projects include development of end-to-end value-based resource management
and failure detection capabilities under the DARPA QUORUM program, and
Java-based fault tolerance technologies for the U.S. Navy. Current initiatives
include the Active Loss Prevention program, which seeks to explore the
business and legal issues surrounding IT systems risks.
Previous executive assignments at The Open Group include Vice President,
Open Group Program Management. He also served as Vice President of the
Collaborative Development Group, which fosters availability and proliferation
of open systems technology through collaborative funding and development.
Major programs in the group include LDAP, ActiveX Core Technology, DCE
1.2, CDE-Next, and Complex Text Layout PSTs, as well as support and consulting
activities.
Other assignments at OSF was as director the Distributed Environment
Engineering group. This group was responsible for production of the DCE
1.1 and DME 1.1/Netrwork Management Option echnologies. David has been
the manager of OSF's DCE effort from the announcement
of the RFT in 1990.
Prior coming to OSF, David worked for Prime Computer as the manager of
the Multiprocessor Operating Systems group, working on systems incorportaing
CMU Mach and Unix System V release 4 technology. Earlier, he led the Open
Systems technology group, which geveloped a variety of networking products
including SNA, TCP/IP, and OSI Ethernet. David holds a degree in Electrical
Engineering form Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and is holder of three
U.S. patents.
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