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George Sadowsky (born September 30, 1936 in Russia) is an American computer scientist who has worked in a number of entities, related to promotion of the Internet worldwide. He is well-known all over the world through his decades of work with developing countries. In many of these countries, he was the one to actually bring the Internet, or make it affordable, or help change the legislation, to make sure it minimized government control and regulation. On August 3, 2013, Sadowsky was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame as a Global Connector. ==Career== Sadowsky's first work was at Combustion Engineering, Inc. (1958–1962), where he was an applied mathematician and programmer for the Nuclear Division. He then went to Yale University (1962–1963), where he was Manager of Operations of Yale Computer Center and Research Assistant in Economics. For three years (1962–1965), while in graduate school at Yale, Sadowsky was a consultant to government agencies and research projects, e.g. he introduced the use of computers for revenue estimation in the Office of Tax Analysis of the U. S. Treasury Department and developed a large computer-based microanalytic simulation model to analyze the revenue and distributional effects of preliminary versions of the Revenue Act of 1964. He then went to the Brookings Institution (1966–1970), where he served as Director of the Computer Center, and was a Senior Fellow at the same time. The next three years Sadowsky spent at The Urban Institute as a Senior Research Staff Member. In 1973 he joined the United Nations, where he worked until 1986 as technical adviser in Computer Methods, and concurrently as adviser to the Director of the Statistical Office, and performed occasional consulting work for government, research and social service agencies. In 1986 Sadowsky moved to Northwestern University, where he was a Director for Academic Computing and Network Services until 1990. The next ten years, until 2000, George was working at the New York University as a Director, Networking Services, Director of Academic Computing Facility. In 2001 George became Executive Director of the GIPI project, Global Internet Policy Initiative.〔http://www.internetpolicy.net〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「George Sadowsky」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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