Background
Oettinger, Anthony Gervin was born on March 29, 1929 in Nuremberg, Germany. Son of Albert and Marguerite (Bing) Oettinger. came to the United States, 1941, naturalized, 1947.
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The introduction of new technologies exerts a profound influence on our ways of thinking about current businesses and issues. They quickly make obsolete the products and services that these businesses provide. Nowhere has this been more evident in the early 1990s and the decades before than in the information industries, the focus of this book.
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This book approaches the subject with a clear grasp of the underlying concepts, and appreciation for the politics and choices that shape them, and a nonpartisan perspective the permits an objective overview. Because of a lack of understanding, participants in the telecommunications/computer industry often take stands counter to their own interests. Further-more, allies in one area may be competitors in another. The volume presents an accurate account of the hard questions faced by these companies, their regulators, an their customers. The author focuses on issues that remain constant regardless of their shape at a given time. Also illustrated are some concepts, such as local service, that are sheer invention, reflecting politicalaand economic choices.
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Oettinger, Anthony Gervin was born on March 29, 1929 in Nuremberg, Germany. Son of Albert and Marguerite (Bing) Oettinger. came to the United States, 1941, naturalized, 1947.
Bachelor of Arts, Harvard University, 1951; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1954; Henry fellow, U. Cambridge, England, 1951-1952; Doctor of Letters (honorary), University Pittsburgh, 1984.
Member faculty, Harvard, since 1955;
associate professor applied mathematics, Harvard, 1960-1963;
professor linguistics, Harvard, 1963-1975;
Gordon McKay professor applied mathematics, Harvard, since 1963;
chairman program on information resources policy, Harvard, since 1972;
member of faculty of government, Harvard, since 1973;
professor information resources policy, Harvard, since 1975. Member command control committee and intelligence board Department Navy, 1978-1983. Member science advisory group Defense Comm.
Agency, 1979-1990; Chairman of the Board visitors Joint Military Intelligence College, since 1986. Chairman, director Control Intelligence Advanced Technology Panel, since 1995. Consultant Arthur D. Little, Inc., 1956-1980, Office Science and Technology, Executive Office of President, 1960-1973, Bellcomm, Inc., 1963-1968, Sys.
Development Corporation, 1965-1968, National Security Council, Executive Office of President, 1975-1981, President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, 1981-1990. Chairman.Computer Science and Engineering Board, National Academy Sciences, 1968-1973. Member Massachusetts Cmty.
Antenna television Commission, 1972-1979, chairman, 1975-1979. Member research advisory board Committee for Economics Development, 1975-1979. Trustee Babbage Institute, since 1991.
Panel member Naval Studies Board NAS/National Research Council, 1993-1995. Member banking and finance teamPres.' Commision on Critical Infrastructure Protection, 1998.
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Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Association Computing Machinery (member county 1961-1968, Chairman of Commission United States Government Rels. 1964-1966, editor computational linguistics section Commission 1964-1966, president 1966-1968). Member Society Industrial and Applied Mathematics (member county 1963-1967), Council on Foreign Rels., Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi.
Married Marilyn Tanner, June 20, 1954;children: Douglas, Marjorie.