Ben Segal (computer scientist) explained

Ben Maurice Segal (born 19 May 1937 in Tel Aviv) is a British-Swiss computer scientist. He is known for his role as an Internet promoter.[1] [2]

Biography

He attended William Hulme's Grammar School, Manchester, and then Imperial College, London, graduating with a Bachelor of Science in physics and mathematics in 1958.[3]

Segal worked from 1958 to 1962 for the UK Atomic Energy Authority, Industrial Division, in Risley, on fast breeder reactor development.[4] He then moved to Detroit, Michigan, USA, to work on the Enrico Fermi fast breeder project from 1962 to 1965,[5] and then to Stanford University in California for a PhD in mechanical and nuclear engineering (1966–1971). His thesis was on “Shock wave structure using nonlinear model Boltzmann equations” under the supervision of Joel H. Ferziger.[6] [7]

In July 1971 he returned to Europe and worked as a systems programmer and later as a computer networking specialist at CERN—the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva, Switzerland. Apart from a sabbatical year in 1977 working at the Bell Northern Research laboratory in Palo Alto, California, he stayed at CERN until his retirement in 2002.

Between 1985 and 1988 he co-ordinated the introduction at CERN of the TCP/IP Internet protocols, permitting interconnection of the principal computer systems inside the laboratory before CERN joined the world Internet in early 1989.[8] [9] [10] [11] [12]

From 1989 he played a major role in the project “SHIFT” that replaced CERN's mainframe computers by distributed Unix clusters.[13] [14] Segal was responsible for the system's high performance computer network. By the year 2000, SHIFT had already increased CERN's installed computing power by a factor of a hundred. The SHIFT architecture was then extended to build the World Wide LHC Computing Grid, used since that time to analyse the massive and still increasing amounts of experimental data taken by the physics experiments around the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. In 2001 CERN was awarded the Computerworld Honors award for 21st Century Achievement for this innovative application of information technology to the benefit of society.[15] [16] [17] Segal's work on TCP/IP and CERN's acceptance of the Internet in 1989, enabled Tim Berners-Lee to develop the World Wide Web and its related protocols.[18] [19] Berners-Lee acknowledged in 2014 Segal as a mentor during the years he developed the Web.[20]

Segal was a founding member of the Internet Society (ISOC), Geneva chapter, and elected to the ISOC Board of Trustees between 1997 and 2000.[21] [22]

Since his retirement, Segal remained active until 2023 as an honorary member of the CERN personnel. He has worked in the developing field of volunteer computing where the general public is invited to contribute to major scientific computing challenges by volunteering some of their private computing power. Segal co-founded and is still active in CERN's own such project, LHC@home,[23] [24] which has attracted several hundred thousand contributors since its launch in 2004.[25] [26] [27]

Awards and honors

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Ben Segal . 2024-04-26 . Internet Hall of Fame . en-US.
  2. Web site: Society . Internet . 2014-07-02 . How the Web Got its 'Lingua Franca' . 2024-04-26 . Internet Hall of Fame . en-US.
  3. Book: From the Web to the Grid and Beyond . 2012 . Springer Berlin Heidelberg . 978-3-642-23156-8 . Brun . René . The Frontiers Collection . Berlin, Heidelberg . xvi–xvii . Biographies of chapter authors: Ben Segal . 10.1007/978-3-642-23157-5 . Carminati . Federico . Galli Carminati . Giuliana.
  4. A method for estimating fast-reactor one-group cross-sections . Segal . B. M. . 1959-07-30 . United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority. Industrial Group H. Q., Risley, Lancs, England . IGR-209(RD/R) . 4231246 . English.
  5. Segal . B. M. . 1964-11-01 . Improved calculations of sodium worth in the Enrico Fermi fast reactor . Transactions of the American Nuclear Society (U.S.) . English . 7. 4687828 .
  6. Shock wave structure using nonlinear model Boltzmann equations . 1971 . Ben Maurice . Segal.
  7. Segal . Ben M. . Ferziger . Joel H. . 1972-07-01 . Shock-Wave Structure using Nonlinear Model Boltzmann Equations . The Physics of Fluids . en . 15 . 7 . 1233–1247 . 10.1063/1.1694072 . 1972PhFl...15.1233S . 0031-9171.
  8. Book: Gillies . James . How the Web was Born: The Story of the World Wide Web . Cailliau . R. . 2000 . Oxford University Press . 978-0-19-286207-5 . 83–90 . en.
  9. Book: Liyanage . Shantha . Big Science, Innovation, and Societal Contributions: The Organisations and Collaborations in Big Science Experiments . Nordberg . Markus . Streit-Bianchi . Marilena . 2024-06-05 . Oxford University Press . 978-0-19-888119-3 . 266 . en.
  10. Book: Sayeed, Ahmed . You Could Be the Winner (Volume - II) . 2019-09-24 . Sankalp Publication . 978-93-88660-66-2 . 143 . en.
  11. Book: Brown, Ian . Research Handbook on Governance of the Internet . 2013-01-01 . Edward Elgar Publishing . 978-1-84980-504-9 . en.
  12. Web site: 2024-04-10 . Internet prehistory at CERN . 2024-04-26 . CERN . en.
  13. News: 1992-07-05 . Enormer Schub . 2024-04-28 . Der Spiegel . de . 2195-1349.
  14. Baud . J P . Bunn . J J . Cane . F . Foster . D . Hemmer . F . Jagel . E . Lee . G . Robertson . L . Segal . B . Trannoy . A . Zacharov . I E . 1991 . SHIFT: the scalable heterogeneous integrated facility for HEP computing . Workshop on Detector and Event Simulation in High Energy Physics: Monte Carlo '91, 8–12 Apr 1991, Amsterdam, the Netherlands . 41–56.
  15. Book: The Computerworld Honors Program: The laureate . 2009.
  16. 2001 . CERN computing wins top award . CERN Courier . 41 . 7 . 8.
  17. Web site: 2024-04-10 . Prestigious US award for CERN computing . 2024-04-26 . CERN . en.
  18. Web site: Standardization and innovation - CERN conference proceedings . 2024-06-07 . ISO . 21–28 . en.
  19. Web site: Segal . Ben . 2000-12-01 . Book review: How the Web was Born . 2024-06-07 . CERN Courier . en-GB.
  20. Web site: Tim Berners-Lee Inductee Biography . 2024-06-07 . Internet Hall of Fame . (Remarks appearing between 1' and 1'40 in the YouTube recording) . en-US.
  21. Web site: List of All Past and Present Trustees . 2024-04-29 . Internet Society . en-US.
  22. Web site: 1997-1998 . 2024-04-29 . Internet Society . en-US.
  23. Web site: History LHC@home . 2024-04-28 . lhcathome.web.cern.ch.
  24. Web site: History of LHC@home . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070622010834/http://athome.web.cern.ch/athome/LHCathome/history.html . 22 June 2007 . LHC@home.
  25. Web site: Dance . Amber . 2007-12-01 . Computers take on more than aliens symmetry magazine . 2024-04-29 . www.symmetrymagazine.org . en.
  26. Book: Regina, Lenart-Gansiniec . Crowdsourcing and Knowledge Management in Contemporary Business Environments . 2018-08-17 . IGI Global . 978-1-5225-4201-8 . 189–194 . en.
  27. Sanchez . Carlos Aguado . Blomer . Jakob . Buncic . Predrag . Chen . Gang . Ellis . John . Quintas . David Garcia . Harutyunyan . Artem . Grey . Francois . Gonzalez . Daniel Lombrana . Marquina . Miguel . Mato . Pere . Rantala . Jarno . Schulz . Holger . Segal . Ben . Sharma . Archana . 2011-12-23 . Volunteer Clouds and Citizen Cyberscience for LHC Physics . Journal of Physics: Conference Series . 331 . 6 . 062022 . 10.1088/1742-6596/331/6/062022 . 1742-6596. free . 2011JPhCS.331f2022A .

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