the distinguished professor and co-director of Cyber Civilization Research Center[1] at Keio University in Japan.

[4] He then began an 11-year career at Bell Laboratories, where he helped design the first electronic switching system (ESS-1) and the SNOBOL programming languages.

[4] At Irvine his research work was focused on creating the world's first operational distributed computer system.

Farber subsequently was appointed Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Telecommunication Systems at the University of Pennsylvania, where he also held appointments as professor of business and public policy at the Wharton School of Business, and as a faculty associate of the Annenberg School for Communication.

In 2012, in memory of his son, he established the Joseph M. Farber prize at the Stevens Institute of Technology, which recognizes a graduating senior majoring in one of the disciplines of the College of Arts and Letters who displays a keen interest in and concern for civil liberties and their importance in preserving and protecting human rights.