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Internet Technical Committee

This committee is a joint committee of the Internet Society and the IEEE Communications Society for stimulating interdisciplinary exchanges and applications of state of the art communications and related technologies to Internet infrastructure and services. The committee contributes to the emergence of an ubiquitous, multimedia, and high-performance Internet serving large segments of the world's population.

Chair | Michele Nogueira
Vice Chair | Paolo Bellavista
Secretary | Ruidong Li
Standards Liaison | Periklis Chatzimisios
Student Competition Program | TBD

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