Networked Computing for the 21st Century
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Overview
Committee members

Overview
Established by President Clinton on February 11, 1997, the Advisory Committee on High Performance Computing and Communications, Information Technology, and the Next Generation Internet will provide the President, the Office of Science and Technology Policy, and the Federal agencies involved in CIC R&D with guidance and advice on all areas of high performance computing, communications, and information technologies. Representing the research, education, and library communities and including network providers and representatives from critical industries, the Committee members will help guide the Administration's efforts to accelerate development and adoption of information technologies vital for American prosperity in the 21st century.
 
On October 31, 1997, President Clinton appointed four new members to the Committee, bringing the total number of members to twenty-five. The new members are David Dorman, John Miller, Joe Thompson, and Irving Wladawsky-Berger. Their affiliations are given on the next page.
 
As part of the Executive Order creating the Committee, President Clinton asked for an independent assessment of the Federal government's role in high performance computing and communications, including:

  • Progress made in implementing the High Performance Computing and Communications Program
  • Progress in designing and implementing the NGI 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
During FY 1998, the Committee held public meetings December 9-10, 1997; March 11, 1998; and May 19, 1998. At the December meeting, the CIC R&D Program Component Area chairs presented budget briefings and summaries of the CIC R&D agenda. The Committee was


Committee members
Committee Co-Chairs

  • Ken Kennedy is Director of the center for Research on Parallel Computation and is Ann and John Doerr Professor of Computer Science at Rice University.

  • Bill Joy is co-founder and Vice President of Research at Sun Microsystems.
Committee Members

  • 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 Vice Chairman of Hughes Electronics Corporation, Chairman of Hughes Telecommunications and Space Company, and a member of Hughes Electronics Office of the Chairman.

  • David W. Dorman is President and CEO of PointCast.

  • 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.

  • John P. Miller is Director of the center for Computational Biology at Montana State University, Bozeman.

  • 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 Computational Science Alliance and Professor of Physics and Astrophysics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

  • Joe F. Thompson is the William L. Giles Distinguished Professor of Aerospace Engineering in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Mississippi State University.

  • 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.

  • Irving Wladawsky-Berger is General Manager, IBM Internet Division at IBM Corporation.

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