Advisory Committee - Press Release from White House
Reformatted version of White House Press
Release (2/12/97)
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The White House
Office of the Press Secretary
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| For Immediate Release |
February 12, 1997 |
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President Clinton names Co-Chairman and members of the Advisory
Committee on High Performance Computing and Communications, Information
Technology, and the Next Generation Internet
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President Clinton today announced his intention
to designate Ken Kennedy as Co-Chairman of the Advisroy Committee
on High-Performance Computing and Communications, Information Technology,
and the Next Generation Internet. In addition to announcing the Co-Chairman,
President Clinton announced his intention to appoint 19 members to
this new Committee.
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The Advisory Committee will provide guidance
and advice on all areas of high performance computing, communications
and information technologies. The Commission members bring a broad
range of expertise and interests from business and universities. They
will provide valuable guidance to the adminsitration's efforts to
acceleerate development and adoption of information technologies that
will be vital for American prosperity in the 21st century.
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Dr. Kennedy of Houston, Texas, is Director
of the center for Research on Parallel Computation at Rice University
and Noah Harding Professor of Computer Science. He is a Fellow of
the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association
for Computing Machinery, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers; a member of the National Academy of Engineering; and in
1995 received the W. Wallace McDowell Award, the highest research
award of the IEEE Computer Society. A second co-chair is expected
to be announced soon.
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The President is announcing the following
individuals as members:
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Eric A. Benhamou of Santa Clara, California,
is President, Chairman, and CEO of 3Com Corporation. Dr. Benhamou
chaired the National Information Infrastructure Task Force of
the American Electronics Association from 1993-1995.
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Vinton Cerf of Reston, Virginia, is Senior
Vice President of Internet Architecture and Engineering at MCI
Communications. He is a member of the Datamation Hall of Fame
and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers.
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Ching-Chih Chen of Boston, Massachusetts,
is a Professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information
Science, Simmons College. She is a Fellow of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science.
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David Cooper of Livermore, California,
is Associate Director of Computation at the Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory. He received the 1994 NASA Medal for Outstanding
Leadership and Exceptional Service for his pioneering work on
high performance computing.
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Steven D. Dorfman of Los Angeles, California,
is Executive Vice President of Hughes Electronics Corporation,
Chairman of Hughes Telecommunications and Space Company, and
a member of Hughes Electronics Office of the Chairman. He chaired
the Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee, and
served on the NASA Space Systems Technology Advisory Committee
and the USIA TV/Telecom Advisory Council.
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Robert Ewald of Eagan, Minnesota, is President
of Cray Research and Executive Vice President of Silicon Graphics,
Inc. He served on the Supercomputer Performance and Development
Committee of the National Academy of Sciences.
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David J. Farber of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
is Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Telecommunications at the
University of Pennsylvania, where he holds appointments in the
Department of Information and Computer Science and the Department
of Electrical Engineering. He is a Fellow of the Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers and received the 1995 Association
for Computing Machinery Sigcomm Award for lifetime contributions
to computer communications and the John Scott Award for contributions
to humanity for his work in computer networking.
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Sherrilynne S. Fuller of Seattle, Washington,
is Director of the Health Sciences Libraries and Information
center at the University of Washington and Director of the National
Network of Libraries of Medicine, Pacific Northwest. She is
a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics.
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Hector Garcia-Molina of Stanford, California,
is Leonard Bosack and Sandra Lerner Professor in the Departments
of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University.
He is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery and
received a 1984-1989 NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award.
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Susan Graham of Berkeley, California, is
Professor of Computer Science in the Department of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California,
Berkeley. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts &
Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science,
and the Association for Computing Machinery, and a member of
the National Academy of Engineering.
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James N. Gray of San Francisco, California,
is a senior researcher in Microsoft's Scalable Servers Research
Group and manager of Microsoft's Bay Area Research center. He
is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery and a
member of the National Academy of Engineering.
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W. Daniel Hillis of Los Angeles, California,
is a Disney Fellow, Vice President of R&D at Walt Disney
Imagineering and was co-founder and Chief Scientist at Thinking
Machines Corporation. He is the recipient of the Grace Murray
Hopper Award, the Spirit of American Creativity Award, and the
Ramanujan Award, and is a Fellow of the Association for Computing
Machinery and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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David C. Nagel of Menlo Park, California,
and Basking Ridge, New Jersey, is President of AT&T Labs.
He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee
on Human Factors and was Chair of a National Research Council
study symposium on keeping the U.S. computer, communications,
and entertainment industries competitive.
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Raj Reddy of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
is Dean of the School of Computer Science and Professor of Computer
Science and Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University. He is a
member of the National Academy of Engineering and President
of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence.
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Edward H. Shortliffe of Palo Alto, California,
is Associate Dean for Information Resources and Technology,
Professor of Medicine, and Professor of Computer Science at
Stanford University School of Medicine. He is a member of the
Institute of Medicine at the National Academy of Sciences, a
Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics and the
American Association for Artificial Intelligence, and has served
on the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the
National Research Council.
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Larry Smarr of Champaign, Illinois, is
Director of the National center for Supercomputing Applications
and Professor of Physics and Astrophysics at the University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a Fellow of the American
Academy of Arts and Science and of the American Physical Society
and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
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Leslie Vadasz of Santa Clara, California,
is Senior Vice President, Director of Corporate Business Development,
and a member of the Board of Directors of Intel Corporation.
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Andrew J. Viterbi of San Diego, California,
is one of the founders of QUALCOMM Incorporated and is Vice-Chairman
of its Board of Directors. He is a member of the National Academy
of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences and is Professor
Emeritus at the University of California, San Diego.
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Steven J. Wallach of Richardson, Texas,
is Chief Technology Officer of Hewlett-Packard Company's Convex
Technology center and was co-founder of Convex Computer Corporation.
He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and serves
on the External Advisory Committee of the center for Research
on Parallel Computation headquartered at Rice University. |
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| The Advisory Committee is expected to hold
its first meeting in late February. One of the Committee's first tasks
will be to provide guidance on the Next Generation Internet Initiative
announced by the President in October 1996. It will also examine a
wide range of issues in high performance computing, networking and
related issues. |
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