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Mike Liebhold named IFTF Distinguished Fellow
IFTF is honoring the extraordinary career-long contributions that Mike Liebhold has made to our organization and to the evolution of digital technology by conferring on him the title of IFTF Distinguished Fellow. From his work on the future of the geoweb to context aware environments, abundant computation, and mobile ecosystems, Mike has served as a key voice and contributor to technology work across IFTF. His knowledge, experience, and enthusiasm have made him a prominent figure, not only in his role at IFTF, but across the technology community.
Mike has a long and distinguished history leading innovation in the digital world. Before coming to IFTF, Mike was a Visiting Researcher at Intel Labs, working on a pattern language based on semantic web frameworks for ubiquitous computing. Before that, during the late 1990s, Mike worked with startups building large-scale international public IT services and IP networks for rural and remote regions, as well as for GPS-enhanced precision agriculture, complete IT architecture for schools in Shandong Province China, and satellite networks in India, Europe, and Latin America. He was a Principal Investigator for a National Science Foundation project to bring Internet2 broadband IP networks to 70 rural low-income communities in the United States.
In the 1990s, Mike was a senior consulting architect at Netscape Communications and a founding member of Netscape’s Strategic Investors board. Previously, Mike was Vice President, Chief Technology Officer for Times Mirror Publishing. For ten years prior, he was Senior Scientist for Apple Computers, researching and developing media technologies, geospatial information systems, and high-speed communications. Mike served as principal technology policy adviser for Apple Chairman John Sculley and drafted core recommendations on the National Information Infrastructure, which were later incorporated directly in the Clinton-Gore Technology Initiative.
We are happy to honor this distinguished career and will celebrate with Mike at a special dinner attended by the IFTF Board of Directors, staff, and invited guests on Monday, February 22, 2010.