 President Clinton today announced his intention to designate Ken
Kennedy as Co-Chairman of the Advisory 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.
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 administration's efforts to accelerate
development and adoption of information technologies that will be vital
for American prosperity in the 21st century.
Dr. Kennedy of Houston, Texas, is the 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.
The President is announcing the following individuals as members:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Robert Ewald of Eagen, Minnesota, is President of Cray Research
and Senior Vice President of Silicon Graphics, Inc. He served on the
Supercomputer Performance and Development Committee of the National
Academy of Sciences.
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.
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.
Hector Garcia-Molina of Stanford, California, is the 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. |