David Jack Farber is best known for his contributions to the worlds of networking and telecommunications, but he has also worked on various computer languages and has extensive industrial as well as academic experience.

Dave (David) Jack Farber was born in 1935 in Jersey City, New Jersey, and he grew up in nearby Saddlebrook. Farber graduated from the Stevens Institute of Technology in 1956 with a degree in electrical engineering and mathematics. Before graduating, during the summer of 1955, Farber took a job working with the United States Navy in Washington, D.C., where he worked with Wally Dietrich. Dietrich was the inventor of the first transistor analog computer and Farber spent his time working on the programming of this computer. This marked a turning point in Farber's life; initially he had intended on progressing to MIT to undertake graduate studies in electronic engineering, but this early exposure to computers fired...