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François Fluckiger article for Wikipedia

Francois Fluckiger (born November 24, 1949) is a French and Swiss computer scientist who has worked at CERN, Geneva, for more than 35 years. He is an Internet veteran and was selected for induction in 2013 in the Internet Hall of Fame together with 31 other inductees.

Summary of Internet contributions
Francois Fluckiger is well-known as the main builder of the CERN external network, which became in the early 90’s the largest Internet Hub in Europe.

He was, together with colleagues from the Academic and Research Networking community, at the inception of a number of Internet structures worldwide: CCIRN (the Coordinating Committee for Intercontinental Research Network) in May 1988, RIPE (Réseaux IP Européens which allocates Internet resources and services in Europe, the Middle East and parts of Central Asia, Ebone (European Backbone), the first pan-European IP network interconnecting academic and private networks.

He chaired the Inet1988, Inet2001 and Inet2002 programme, and the Technology Track for Inet1993, Inet1999, and Inet2000.

Current positions
Director of the CERN School of Computing, he is Knowledge and Technology Transfer Officer for Information Technologies at CERN. He is a lecturer at the University of Geneva, a member of the Internet Society Advisory Council and of the W3C Advisory Committee.

Education
He holds an MSc in Physics from the Pierre-and-Marie Curie University, Paris, is a graduate of the École Supérieure d'Électricité (Supélec), and holds an MBA from the Institut d'Administration des Entreprise in Paris

Those who worked with him
At CERN, since 1983 Brian Carpenter (François’s supervisor) and Olivier Martin (François’s supervisee) contributed heavily to the building of the Internet Infrastructure, together with Giorgio Heiman. Olivier Martin put in place the technical infrastructure, seconded by Jean-Michel Jouanigot.

After the departure of Tim Berners-Lee to found the W3C at the MIT, François Fluckiger took over him to lead the web development technical team at CERN. He worked with Robert Cailliau, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen and Dave Raggett in particular to organize the last release by CERN of the WWW open source software.

The six people who met at CERN to launch the RIPE idea in December 1988 were Rob Blokzijl from NIKHEF (NL), Mats Brunel from SUNET (SE), Daniel Karrenberg from EUnet (NL), Enzo Valente from INFN (IT), Olivier Martin and François from CERN. Rob and Daniel are those who then actually created and run RIPE.

Ebone was created by a team involving among others Frode Greisen, Kees Neegers, and Peter Lothberg. Frode Greisen finalized the MoU and ran the Steering Committee.

The programme committee of Inet98 was co-chaired with Jean-Claude Guédon, the Inet2001 one with Steve Cisler, the Inet2002 one with Michael Nelson, Alejandro Pisanty and Hans Klein. The technical Track of Inet93 was co-chaired with Elise Gerich, the Inet99 one with John Hine, the Inet2000 one with Fred Baker.

Books and publications
He is the author of the textbook "Understanding Networked Multimedia”, Prentice Hall as well as more than 80 articles.