Alumni Hall Of Fame

Glenn Ricart

Photo of Glenn Ricart
Graduation Year:
1980
Dissertation:
Efficient Synchronization Algorithms for Distributed Systems
Advisor(s):

 

Glenn Ricart received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland in 1980. In 1981, Ricart set up the first Internet Exchange point, the FIX (Federal Interned Exchange) in College Park, Maryland. This exchange point connected the original federal TCP/IP networks and the first U.S. commercial and non-commercial Internet networks. This interconnection was later extended to a Washington metropolitan area Ethernet called MAE-East. Between 1982 and 1993, Ricart spearheaded academic computing and networking at the University of Maryland, which became the first university to implement TCP/IP campus wide in 1984.

During his time at the University of Maryland in the mid-1980s, Ricart managed two teams: one which wrote the code for the first implementation of TCP/IP for the IBM PC and another that developed the “Open Shortest Path First” reference implementation, both of which were highly acclaimed. 

Ricart has also held various senior manager positions in industry including Executive Vice President and CTO for Novell in the 1990s, Managing Director of PricewaterhouseCoopers, and CEO and President of National LambdaRail. He has also founded five startup companies, including US Ignite and CenterBeam, which was sold to Earthlink in 2013 after 14 years of independent operation. 

Ricart has also served on the boards of three public companies, CACI, the SCO Organization, and the First USA Financial Services, in addition to various non-profits. 

Inductees

Photo of Narendra Ahuja

Narendra Ahuja
PhD 1979

Photo of Michael Antonov

Michael Antonov
Bachelor's 2003

Photo of J. Gary Augustson

J. Gary Augustson
Master's 1969

Photo of David Baggett

David Baggett
Bachelor's 1992

Photo of Suman Banerjee

Suman Banerjee
PhD 2003

Photo of Sergey Brin

Sergey Brin
Bachelor's 1993

Photo of Paul Capriolo

Paul Capriolo
Bachelor's 2006

Photo of Anthony Casalena

Anthony Casalena
Bachelor's 2005

Photo of Charles Dyer

Charles Dyer
PhD 1979

Photo of Gary Flake

Gary Flake
PhD 1993

Photo of Rajiv Gandhi

Rajiv Gandhi
PhD 2003

Photo of Howard Gobioff

Howard Gobioff
Bachelor's 1993

Photo of Naresh Gupta

Naresh Gupta
PhD 1993

Photo of Patrick Jenkins

Patrick Jenkins
Bachelor's 2006

Photo of Vipin Kumar

Vipin Kumar
PhD 1982

Photo of Ronald Larsen

Ronald Larsen
PhD 1981

Photo of Haroon Mokhtarzada

Haroon Mokhtarzada
Bachelor's 2001

Photo of Idris Mokhtarzada

Idris Mokhtarzada
Bachelor's 2010

Photo of Zeki Mokhtarzada

Zeki Mokhtarzada
Bachelor's 2001

Photo of Shmuel Peleg

Shmuel Peleg
PhD 1979

Photo of Andrew Reisse

Andrew Reisse
Bachelor's 2001

Photo of Glenn Ricart

Glenn Ricart
PhD 1980

Photo of Debanjan Saha

Debanjan Saha
PhD 1995

Photo of Pooja Sankar

Pooja Sankar
Master's 2004

Photo of Jagdeep Singh

Jagdeep Singh
Bachelor's 1987

Photo of Aya Soffer

Aya Soffer
PhD 1995

Photo of Lee Spector

Lee Spector
PhD 1992

Photo of Granger Sutton

Granger Sutton
PhD 1992

Photo of Qiang Yang

Qiang Yang
PhD 1989

Photo of Shayan Zadeh

Shayan Zadeh
Master's 2002