Roger Leslie (Les) Anderton Cottrell

IT Staff (Emeritus)

Professional and Biographical Information

• The University of Manchester, 1967, Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics
• Roles
• Manager, SLAC Computer Networking and Telecommunicaitons, 2008-2018
• Assistant Director, SLAC Computing Services, 1982-2008 (Acting Director, 1995-1997)
• Manager, SLAC Computer Network, 1980-1982
• Visiting Scientist, IBM U.K. Laboratories, 1979-1980
• Visiting Scientist (Split Field Magnet experiment), CERN, 1972-1973
• Staff Physicist, 1967-1979
• Chairman, ICFA Standing Committee on Inter-regional Connectivity's (SCIC) Monitoring Group
• Image transformations on an interactive raster scan or matrix display (patent)

Events and Photos

• First Internet Connection to China
• China's First Internet Connection
• "Dr. Les Cottrell of Stanford discusses bringing the first internet connection to Beijing
• Bringing the Internet to China
• Employees Honored at 2017 Annual Awards Dinner (SLAC internal website link)
• Photo Stirs Nobel Memories
• Internet2 Land Speed Record, 2002-2003 and co-leader for the winning team of the SuperComputing Bandwidth Challenge, 2005

Non-technical publications

• For a list of articles in SLAC newsletters, please go to SLAC Popular Periodicals Index.

Technical publications

• Book Chapters
• "The Internet, Mobile Computing and Mobile Phones in Developing Countries," in m-Science Sensing, Computing and Disemmination, 2010.
• "Writing CGI Scripts in REXX," in HTML and CGI Unleashed, 1996.
• For a list of Technical Publications, please go to SPIRES HEP.

Cottrell Papers in the SLAC Archives, History & Records Office

The Cottrell papers held by the SLAC Archives, History & Records Office are currently being processed, and are not yet open for research. SLAC staff may access descriptions of his papers by clicking this link and entering his last name in the search box at the upper right on that page.

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