BBN Technologies

Cambridge, Mass., August 9, 2005 — BBN Technologies, an advanced technology and research and development firm, announced today that two researchers have been promoted for their leadership and ground-breaking contributions in their respective fields.

Ram Ramanathan has been promoted to Principal Scientist "for leadership and ground-breaking contributions to mobile ad hoc networking" in recognition of his contributions to networking with directional antennas, large-scale ad hoc networks, and multimedia support over large-scale ad hoc networks. Since joining BBN in 1992, he has focused on topology control and scalable routing, developing a number of widely-cited solutions.

John Lowry has been promoted to Principal Engineer "for technical leadership and contributions to security technology." Lowry joined BBN in 1984 and is currently the Technical Director for the Decision & Security Technologies department. He has helped to shape the government's investment in information security technologies and define a science-based implementation process for emerging technologies.

About BBN Technologies
BBN Technologies, an advanced technology solutions firm, is focused on solving some of the world's most pressing problems. From national security, information security, speech recognition and language translation, to integrating disparate systems and networks, BBN has been at the forefront of technological change for over 50 years.

Known for pioneering the development of the ARPANET, the forerunner of the Internet, BBN continues to create advances in Internet and networking technologies through its work on ad hoc networking, the semantic web, quantum communications, and advanced protocols. Building on its substantial list of firsts, BBN operates the first metro quantum cryptography network, the first real-time foreign broadcast monitoring system, and has developed the world's first stereoscopic digital mammography system. For more information on BBN Technologies, visit www.bbn.com.