Diane Pozefsky facts for kids

Diane P. Pozefsky is a research professor at the University of North Carolina in the department of Computer Science. Pozefsky was awarded the Women in Technology International (WITI) 2011 Hall of Fame Award for contributions to the fields of Science and Technology.

Education

Pozefsky earned a A.B in applied mathematics from Brown University in 1972 and her Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science at UNC in 1979 under the tutelage of Doctor Mehdi Jazayeri.

Career

Pozefsky joined IBM Corporation, Raleigh, NC, in 1979 as a member of the Communication Systems Architecture Department working in the specification and application of the Systems Network Architecture (SNA), a large and complex feature-rich network architecture developed in the 1970s by IBM. Similar in some respects to the OSI reference model, but with a number of differences. SNA is essentially composed of seven layers. She worked for IBM for 25 years and was named an IBM Fellow in 1994 in recognition of her work on APPN and AnyNet architectures and development. She was tasked with the network and application design for the 1998 and 2000 Olympics. Her work life has largely been focused on networking and software engineering, including:

• developing networking protocols
• deploying the network at the Nagano Olympics
• development processes
• storage networking
• application development
• mobile computing

She has worked in development, design, and architecture and two areas that she has become particularly interested in later in here career are improving quality and blending theory and practice.

Dr. Diane Pozefsky returned to UNC after retiring from IBM in June 2004.

US Patents

US Patents

• 6,430,604 “Technique for Enabling Messaging Systems to Use Alternative Message Delivery Mechanisms” with Ogle et al., issued August 6, 2002
• 5,802,053 “Transport Gateway Between a Native Network and a Mixed Network” with Bollella et al., issued September 1, 1998
• 5,491,693 “General Transport Layer Gateway for Heterogeneous Networks” with Britton et al., issued February 13, 1996
• 5,425,028 “Protocol Selection and Address Resolution for Programs Running in Heterogeneous Networks” with Britton et al., issued June 13, 1995
• 5,361,256 “Inter-Domain Multicast Routing” with Doeringer et al., issued November 1, 1994
• 5,224,098 “Compensation for Mismatched Transport Protocols in a Data Communications Network” with Bird et al., issued June 29, 1993
• 5,109,483 “Node Initiating XID Exchanges Over an Activated Link Including an Exchange of Sets of Binding Signals Between Nodes for Establishing Sessions” with Baratz et al., issued April 28, 1992
• 5,101,348 “Method of Reducing the Amount of Information Included in Topology Update Messages in a Data Communications Network” with Arrowood et al., issued March 31, 1992
• 4,967,345 “Method of Selecting Least Weight Routes in a Communications Network” with Clarke et al., issued October 30, 1990
• 4,954,821 “Method of Establishing Transmission Group Numbers for Network Links” with Gray et al., issued September 4, 1990
• 4,914,571 “Locating Resources in Computer Networks” with Baratz et al., issued April 3, 1990
• 4,873,517 “Method for Selecting Least Weight End Node to Ned Node Route in a Data Communications Network” with Baratz et al., Issued October 10, 1989
• 4,827,411 “Method of maintaining a Topology database” with Arrowood et al., issued May 2, 1989
• 4,736,369 “Adaptive Session Pacing” with Barzilai et al., issued April 5, 1988

See also

In Spanish: Diane Pozefsky para niños