BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: DAVID R HUGHES

A. Curriculum Vitae
        6 North 24th Street, Colorado Springs, CO, 80904 (719) 636-2040

Education

B.S., United States Military Academy, West Point, 1950
M.A., University of Pennsylvania, PA, 1955

Employment: Commissioned officer, US Army, 1950 - 1973

Positions, Scope:

Founder, Technical Designer, Managing Partner, Chariot
Communications - 1984-1988. Commercial Service.

Managing Partner, Old Colorado City Communications, 1988 -
        Internet Service Provider 1992 -;
        Telecommunications consulting - education, government, and
        business;
        Design, production, marketting of OS2 and Unix Internet-BBS
servers for K-12 education, government and business (HiCom Systems)
        Design, project management and coordination by telecom of
Russian scientist and two Russian software engineers, in
programming, production, and marketting of of original 'Troika'
program suite based on International ISO-2022, and North American
Presentation Protocol Standards. 1992-1993
        Design, installation, of Big Sky Telegraph network project
Western Montana College. Telecommunications network serving 114 one
room school houses of Montana. Experimental use of Packet Radio
technologies for field education. 1990. Under FCC commercial Packet
Radio Licence, held by Old Colo City Comm, 1988-1992
        Formal education, online, of teachers, for University of
Colorado, Colorado Springs, Pikes Peak Community College, Pikes Peak
Technical College, Western Montana College. 1986-1992.
        Installation and training of Center School District, San
Luis Valley, Colorado of Internet, BBS, wireless (Part 15 SS) server
and associated hardware and software. 1994-1995
        Co-designer of Math, Science, Telecommunication (MAST)
network, modem server for University of Northern Colorado for use in
US West Foundation $1.6 million, 485 Colorado math/science 3 year
teacher technology education program. 1994
         Development, operation, and maintance of developmental
164kbs Wireless 903-938mhz SS Internet Server, Web page, ftp,
conferencing software, branched from Old Colorado City network. 1995

Other Professional Activities
        Extensive lecturer, demonstrator, online and offline
conferee, and informal online publisher,  on personal, educational,
business, government, public policy aspects of modem dialup,
internetwork telecommuncations. 1980-1995 Lecturer, demonstrator,
and panelist on wireless data communications 1993-1995.
        Consultant to the Congressional Office of Technology
Assessment on its National Education and Research (NREN) studies,
1990-1992.
        Charter member of the standing, Colorado Springs City
Council Telecommunications Advisory Committee - 1992-1995
        Advised panel of the National Research Council, Academy of
Sciences on networking public policies - 1994.
        Advisor to Colorado State telecommunications planners -
Telecommunications Commission, Lt. Governor Cassidy Colorado
Telecommunications Plan, 1994-95.

 Teaching experience
        United States Military Academy, 1955-1958
        Series of formal, university credit, courses online, for
remote teachers (university and K-12 schools) from Colorado,
Wyoming, Montana, Alaska, Australia. (Scholars indicate the original
1983 course, Electronic English, for Colorado Technical College, was
the first such college-credit courses taught by this method, 1993.)

 Awards and Recognition:
        Pioneer Award, Electronic Frontier Foundation 1993 for
telecommunications achievements. Other recipients that year - Dr.
Bennet Cerf, and Dr. Paul Baran.
        Extensively covered by international and national general,
professional, and academic press and media for work in (1) grass
roots public telecom (2) educational networking (3) public policy
networking (4) innovations in low cost - high connectivity
solutions for rural areas. 1980-1995

B. Selected publications (10)
        Virtually all  writings on telecommunications (over 200)
from 1982-1995 in the form of reports, analyses, essays, and
conference colloquies, by this author - which represent the body of
his important work - are online, and have not been reduced to paper.
        "Appropriate and Distributed Networking" paper, 1992,
submitted to the Clinton Transition Team detailing methods for
networking all 83,000 public schools in the US. Available online.
Reproduced all or in part by numerous publications.

C. List of collaborators (within 48 months)
        Dr. George Johnston , MIT. Co-design and remote delivery of
formal courses in the math and physics of Chaos.
        Prof Frank Odasz, Co-design of distance learning curriculum
for Western Montana College.
        Glenn Reedy, PACCOM. Design of packet radio devices for
integration into educational networks.
        Dr. Andrey Sebrant, Moscow, in designing international
telecommunications software program.
        Steve Cisler, Chief Library Scientist, Apple Corporation.
Experiments in internettworking Apple AUX and Unix systems.
        Dr. Ed Lyell, Colorado State Board of Education. Design of
technologically supported reform of K-12 education.
        Dr. Tomas Atencio, University of New Mexico. Development of
'La Resolana Electronica' community-educational programs.
        Dewayne Hendricks, Tetherless Access. Integration of spread
spectrum wireless devices into rural networks.