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Biography
In the above role, David Lounsbury leads activities related
to government research, with a particular focus on developing
adaptive and real-time system software.
David's previous executive assignments at The Open Group
include Vice President, Open Group Program Management. In
this role, he was in charge of coordinating corporate activity
for major programs among the development, membership, and
specification/test/branding business activities. 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 included LDAP, ActiveX Core Technology,
DCE 1.2, CDE-Next, and Complex Text Layout PST's, as well
as support and consulting activities. Other assignments at
OSF include Director of the Distributed Environment Engineering
group. This group was responsible for production of the DCE
1.1 and DME 1.1/Network Management Option technologies. David
has been the manager of OSF's DCE effort from the announcement
of the RFT in 1990.
Prior to coming to OSF, David worked for Prime Computer
as the manager of the Multiprocessor Operating Systems group,
working on systems incorporating CMU Mach and Unix System
V release 4 technology. Earlier, he led the Open Systems
technology group, which developed a variety of networking
products including SNA, TCP/IP, and OSI Ethernet.
David holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from Worcester
Polytechnic Institute, and is holder of three U.S. patents.
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