Dan
Lynch
Dan Lynch, 63, is a private
investor. He is a founder of CyberCash,
Inc.. He also founded Interop
Company,
which is now a division of Key3Media.
As a member of ACM and ISOC, Lynch is active in computer networking
with a primary focus in promoting the spread of the Internet. Lynch is also a
member of the Board of Trustees of the Santa
Fe Institute and the Bionomics
Institute. Dan is a private investor in a number of startup companies in
the Internet arena, including, Aventail,
Sana Security, Covad (COVD), Hynomics, Maxager,
Infoseek (DIS), InfoSpace (INSP), Lumenare, Polska
Online, and Women.com (IVIL).
As Director of Information Processing Division for the Information Sciences Institute in Marina del Rey (USC-ISI) Lynch led the Arpanet team that made the transition from the original NCP protocols to the current TCP/IP based protocols. He directed this effort from 1980 until 1983.
He was Director of Computing Facilities at SRI International in the mid to late 70's. He formerly served as manager of the computing laboratory for the Artificial Intelligence Center at SRI , which conducts research in robotics, vision, speech understanding, automatic theorem proving and distributed databases.While at SRI he performed initial debugging of the TCP/IP protocols in conjunction with Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN).
Lynch received undergraduate training in mathematics and philosophy from Loyola Marymount University and obtained a Master's Degree in mathematics from UCLA .
Dan spends his free time in St. Helena, California where he is growing Syrah and Cabernet grapes for his small winery. The first crush was in October of 1998.