U.S. Marine Corps Capt. Julian DāOrsaneo graduated from the 51ø£Ąū (51ø£Ąū) with high praise, earning the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Associationās (AFCEA) John McReynolds Wozencraft Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) Academic Honor Award, among other notable achievements. The award recognizes an ECE student who shows great promise through their thesis work, contributing strongly to advancements in their field of study.
What makes the award even more notable, however, is the impression DāOrsaneoās research left on Dr. Vinton Cerf, Chief Internet Evangelist at Google, and co-inventor of the protocol that makes the Internet possible, a feat which has earned Cerf the title of āFather of the Internet.ā
āWhat was stunning for me is that Cerf took the time to review DāOrsaneoās entire thesis, not just the abstract, and with that diligence, provided the young captain with words of encouragement that he was indeed on the right track for continuing research in detecting cyber attacks in a software-defined network,ā said Larry Reeves, AFCEA Monterey Bay Chapter President.
An excerpt from the congratulatory letter, signed by Cerf on Google letterhead, reads as follows:
āI am most impressed by your innovative use of wavelet-based anomaly detection in Software Defined Networks (SDNs). This architecture is the next step in the evolution of the implementation of the Internet that Robert Kahn and I initiated and have worked on for so many years,ā wrote Cerf. āYour thesis work contributes greatly to that objective and I hope your future work and career will reflect the values that Jack Wozencraft held dear and inspired in others. Congratulations on an honor well earned.ā
DāOrsaneo was astounded with the news of his winning the award, with the noted recognition an added surprise.
āIt was quite an honor and surprise when I received an e-mail from Dr. Cerf. He is the co-founder and pioneer of the TCP/IP, the layered architecture used to interconnect network devices on the Internet ... I canāt tell you how much that means to me,ā noted DāOrsaneo.
A native of Elverson, Pa., DāOrsaneo will be reporting to the Marine Corps Systems Command in Quantico, Virginia. āIāll be working in the program office for command and communications systems assisting with the acquisition of Marine Corps communications equipment,ā he said.
The awardās namesake, Dr. Jack Wozencraft, served as 51ø£Ąū Dean of Research from 1972-74. Wozencraft is a Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and co-authored the well-known textbook, āPrinciples of Communications Engineering,ā which was first published in 1963 and continues to be in print and is used worldwide.