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Instructor

James Kempf

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JAMES KEMPF, Ph.D., a research engineer and consultant with more than 30 years' experience in information and communication technologies, graduated from University of Arizona with a doctorate in Systems Engineering and immediately went to work in Silicon Valley for HP. His career includes working as an engineer, primarily in research, at Sun Microsystems, as a research fellow for Docomo Labs USA, and as a principal research engineer for Ericsson Research and senior principal architect at Equinox. For more than a decade, he has worked with the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to develop standards for the mobile and wireless internet, chairing several working groups and serving as a member of the Internet Architecture Board. He holds 26 patents and has written many technical papers and three books. His most recent book, "Wireless Internet Security: Architecture and Protocols," was published by Cambridge University Press (2008). Kempf also has a certificate in Innovation and Emerging Technologies in renewable energy from Stanford and is interested in the application of software technology directed toward transforming the energy supply towards a low-carbon future. In addition to teaching cryptography and blockchain at UCSC Extension, Kempf spent six months on sabbatical teaching internet routing at the Technical University of Berlin.

Associated Program(s)
Devops and Data Virtualization