Kanchana Kanchanasut

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Kanchana Kanchanasut (* 1951 ) is a Thai information scientist who worked at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) in Klong Luang. As a "pioneer" of the Internet , she was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2013 as the second woman .

Life

Kanchanasut studied mathematics and computer science in Australia , where she received a bachelor's degree and graduate diploma from the University of Queensland in 1974 . She completed her studies with a Master of Science degree in computer science from the University of Melbourne for five years . There she received her doctorate in the same subject in 1991.

Kanchanasut has been with the Asian Institute of Technology since 1984. There she set up computer networks and in 1986 was the first Thai person to send an email . She then created the first experimental research and education network and linked five universities in Thailand with the corresponding network in Australia. Kanchanasut set up her country's first Internet server in 1988 and registered the .th top-level domain, which she took over administration.

Kanchanasut took over professorships for computer science and information management at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) . She was Director of the Internet Education and Research Laboratory until the end of 2016 and has been Vice President for Research at AIT since 2013.

Kanchanasut was also the Executive Director of AVIST, the Virtual Institute for Science and Technology of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations . In 2016 she managed the establishment of the first Internet hub in Bangkok . Kanchanasut was an advisor to the Thai government on the “ICT Corridor Project” in the 2000s, a member of the Executive Committee of NECTEC and a member of the Advisory Committee of ICANN . She was director of the Thailand Network Information Center, was a member of the advisory board of the IPv6 forum and chaired international conferences or sat on their committees.

Honors

In 2013 Kanchanasut was inducted into the “Pioneers” of the Internet Hall of Fame as the second woman alongside Elizabeth J. Feinler . Her numerous initiatives to set up and expand the network in the Southeast Asian countries were recognized. Three years later she was awarded the Jonathan B. Postel Service Award .

Fonts (selection)

  • A shortest path algorithm for partitioned grid graphs . Melbourne 1979.
  • On the semantic kernel of logic programs (dissertation). Melbourne 1979.
  • Editor with Jean-Jacques Lévy: Algorithms, concurrency and knowledge . Springer, Berlin 1995. ISBN 978-3-540-60688-8
  • Asian Internet Engineering Conference . ASM, New York 2009.
  • Proceedings of the 7th Asian Internet Engineering Conference . ASM, New York 2011.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ AIT: AIT Newsletter. January 2017 . P. 4.
personal data
SURNAME Kanchanasut, Kanchana
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Thai information scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1951