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Douglas E. Van Houweling is President and CEO of the University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development (UCAID), home of the Internet 2 Project. Van Houweling was named to the position on October 1, 1997. UCAID is a consortium of U.S. research universities, in collaboration with private and public sector partners, currently engaged in the Internet2 project to advance networking technology and applications for the research and education community. Van Houweling is also chairman of the Board of Advanced Network and Services Corporation, a not-for-profit organization which implemented and operated the world’s largest Internet backbone network from 1991 until 1995. He is currently on leave from his post at the University of Michigan as Professor in the School of Information.