Donald N. Langenberg

My name is: Donald N. Langenberg.
I am a citizen of the United States and reside in Baltimore, Maryland.
My email address is: dnl@usmd.edu.
My current employer is the University System of Maryland.

Statement of Qualifications and Experience

I am a physicist whose research was in the area of experimental condensed matter physics, particularly superconductivity. My work on the Josephson effects provided the basis for the Josephson voltage standard now used universally. My administrative experience began as director of a major interdisciplinary research laboratory and as Vice Provost for Graduate Studies and Research at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1980, President Carter appointed me Deputy Director of the National Science Foundation, where I also served for a time as Acting Director. In 1983 I became Chancellor of the University of Illinois at Chicago. Since 1990 I have served as Chancellor of the University System of Maryland. This is a family of thirteen diverse institutions including the University of Maryland, College Park. The System has approximately 130,000 students, worldwide, and a current operating budget of $2.5 billion.

I have long been active at the national level in leadership and policy positions in science and education. I have served on many national boards and commissions. I have been President of the American Physical Society, President and Chairman of the Board of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Chairman of the Board of the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges, a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, and Chairman of the Physics Action Council, a committee advisory to the Director General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). I am currently President of the National Association of System Heads and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

ICANN Related Interests

My particular engagement with issues in the uses of information technology in research and education began in 1986 when I chaired the Panel on Information Technology and the Conduct of Research of the Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy of the National Academy of Sciences/National Academy of Engineering/Institute of Medicine. Since then I have been an active exponent in many venues of the transformational effects of the information technology revolution on the conduct of education and research. I have spoken, written, and testified frequently on the subject and am widely considered a national leader in this area. Within the University System of Maryland I have helped create what I believe to be the world's largest true virtual university. The System's University of Maryland University College now has some fifteen fully Web-based baccalaureate and master's degree programs with enrollments last year reaching 40,000 and projected this year at 70,000. On the national scene, I have participated as a SloanTrustee in the development of the Sloan Foundation's Asynchronous Learning Network program, and I have recently become a member of the Board of Experts of the U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science.

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Personal Statement

I believe I could bring to the ICANN Board an unusually broad leadership and public policy experience in the applications of information technology in research and education.

Governmental Affiliation or Employment

I am not an official of any national government or of a multinational entity established by treaty. I have small investments in a number of information technology companies relevant to the work of ICANN, but do not currently hold any employment, consulting, or official positions with such companies.

Further relevant information can be found via the University System of MarylandÕs Web site at http://www.usmd.edu.