Clemson computing chief elected to national board
July 20, 2010
CLEMSON, SC – July 20, 2010 – Jim Bottum, vice provost and chiefinformation officer at Clemson University, has been elected to the boardof trustees for Internet2, the nation’s leader in the deployment anduse of Internet technologies for the research and education community.
Bottum will be chief information officer for the board until his termends in 2013.
The Internet2 board is elected by representatives from memberorganizations, and includes university presidents, chief informationofficers, network researchers, discipline researchers and industrypartners. The member-focused board provides strategic direction,leadership and oversight.
Internet2 brings researchers and the academic community together withtechnology leaders from industry and government around the world forcollaboration on work that can have a fundamental impact on the Internetand how it enables research and education.
Bottum came to Clemson in 2006 after serving as Purdue University’sfirst chief information officer. Since his arrival, Clemson hasestablished the state’s first regional optical network (CLight)connecting Clemson to Internet2 and the National Lambda Rail at no costto the university. With Bottum’s direction, Clemson also has climbedfrom outside the top 500 ranking of computational sites into the top 50.He also is chairman of the National Science Foundation’s AdvisoryCommittee on Cyberinfrastructure.
