Mohamed Boucadair completed his degree at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Ingénieur de Caen (Institut des Sciences de la Matière et des Rayonnements.) He currently works for France Telecom R&D and is part of the team working on VoIP services. He has previously been involved in IST research projects (TEQUILA, MESCAL, AGAVE), working on dynamic provisioning and inter-domain traffic engineering. Boucadair has also worked as an R&D engineer in charge of dynamic provisioning, QoS, multicast and intra/inter-domain traffic engineering. He has published many journal articles and written extensively on these subject areas.
Salamon has written an engaging story that puts a human face on the macro-level shifts affecting the once agrarian rural communities of the American Midwest. Through her stories of six central Illinois 'postagrarian' towns, she deftly illuminates much of the micro-foundation of these shifts in the daily decisions of people. - Ralph B. Brown, Rural History If you are one of the many millions of Americans who is thinking about 'moving out to the country,' you should read this book first. - William R. Freudenburg, Contexts