Technologies for the 21st Century Presidential Advisory Committee

	Establishment First meeting Review of NGI initiative Committee members
Establishment	On February 11, 1997, President Clinton signed an Executive Order establishing the Advisory Committee on High Performance Computing and Communications, Information Technology, and the Next Generation Internet. The Committee is asked to assist the Administration's efforts to accelerate development and adoption of information technologies that will be vital for American prosperity in the 21st century.   The twenty-one industry and academic leaders who are members of the Committee represent the research, education, and library communities, network providers, and representatives from critical industries. President Clinton designated Ken Kennedy of Rice University and Bill Joy of Sun Microsystems as co-chairmen.   As part of the Executive Order creating the Committee, President Clinton has asked them for an independent assessment of: Progress made in implementing the High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) Program Progress in designing and implementing the Next Generation Internet initiative The need to revise the HPCC Program Balance among components of the HPCC Program Whether the research and development undertaken pursuant to the HPCC Program is helping to maintain U.S. leadership in advanced computing and communications technologies and their applications Other issues as specified by the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP)
First meeting	At the first meeting of the Advisory Committee on February 26 and 27, 1997, Dr. John H. Gibbons, the President's Science Advisor and Director of OSTP, said, as he welcomed the members, "The technology of information lies at the core of many of our hopes for America's future -- in industry and commerce, in education, in medicine, in the way we talk with each other, in the way we organize knowledge... We need your guidance to design programs that serve both public needs and the needs of the companies that we must rely on to convert ideas into products, income, and jobs." At this meeting, the Committee organized itself into the Broadbased, Highend, and NGI Subcommittees. The full Committee also convened June 24-25, 1997, and plans to meet December 9-10, 1997 and in March 1998.
Review of NGI initiative	The Committee conducted a review of the NGI initiative and submitted its assessment to OSTP as a letter report in May 1997. The Committee enthusiastically supported the motivation, goals, and proposed investments embodied in the NGI program. They strongly encourage even closer coordination between the Federal NGI initiative, the academic community's complementary program known as Internet 2, and related federal and industrial efforts. Four recommendations were made: Make key investments now since today's Internet is already showing signs of frailty and high bandwidth architectures and multimedia applications are stressing it for the future Encourage stronger cooperation since the NGI vision is beyond the scope of any one institution, company, or industry sector and the Federal government can stimulate progress Encourage all sectors to invest to realize benefits by creating an environment in which breakthrough research results are possible Restate program goals to better match intended research objectives These recommendations have been incorporated into the NGI initiative. Committee members testified about the NGI initiative before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation; the House Committee on Science; and the Congressional Internet Caucus.
Committee members	Ken Kennedy is Director of the center for Research on Parallel Computation at Rice University and Ann and John Doerr Professor of Computer Science.   Bill Joy is co-founder and Vice President of Research at Sun Microsystems.   Eric A. Benhamou is President, Chairman, and CEO of 3Com Corporation.   Vinton Cerf is Senior Vice President of Internet Architecture and Engineering at MCI Communications.   Ching-chih Chen is a Professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College.   David Cooper is Associate Director of Computation at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.   Steven D. Dorfman is Executive Vice President of Hughes Electronics Corporation and Chairman of Hughes Telecommunications and Space Company.   Robert Ewald is Executive Vice President for Computer Systems at Silicon Graphics, Inc.   David J. Farber is Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Telecommunications at the University of Pennsylvania.   Sherrilynne S. Fuller is Director of the Health Sciences Libraries and Information center, Acting Director, Informatics, School of Medicine, and Director of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Pacific Northwest Region at the University of Washington.   Hector Garcia-Molina is Leonard Bosack and Sandra Lerner Professor in the Departments of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University.   Susan Graham is Chancellor's Professor of Computer Science in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley.   James N. Gray is a senior researcher in Microsoft's Scalable Servers Research Group and manager of Microsoft's Bay Area Research center.   W. Daniel Hillis is a Vice President and Disney Fellow at Walt Disney Imagineering, Research and Development, Inc.   David C. Nagel is President of AT&T Labs.   Raj Reddy is Dean of the School of Computer Science and Herbert A. Simon University Professor of Computer Science and Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University.   Edward H. Shortliffe is Associate Dean for Information Resources and Technology, Professor of Medicine, and Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University School of Medicine.   Larry Smarr is Director of the National center for Supercomputing Applications and Professor of Physics and Astrophysics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.   Leslie Vadasz is Senior Vice President and Director of Corporate Business Development at Intel Corporation.   Andrew J. Viterbi is a co-founder of QUALCOMM Incorporated and Vice Chairman of its Board of Directors.   Steven J. Wallach is Advisor to centerPoint Ventures.