sunflash-Distributed to mailing list sun/NC/north-carolina sunflash-Send requests, problems to owner-sunflash@suntri.east.sun.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Florida SunFlash SUNERGY - LIVE INTERACTIVE SATELLITE BROADCAST #8 January 11, 1994 "Global Information Infrastructures" SunFLASH Vol 60 #16 December 1993 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 60.16 Sunergy Satellite Braodcast: 'Global Information Infrastructures' In the last Sunergy broadcast the topic of the Internet was discussed. During that program we took a look at some of the ways that the Internet acts as both supplier and retriever of information, internationally. We also discussed US government policy and security issues. (The Sun Ft. Lauderdale office has its own satellite dish, so we will be hosting this event in our office. 11:30 am to 1:00 pm EST-johnj) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday January 11, 1994 8:30 - 10:00 am (NOTE --> PST <----) Sunergy #8 will take an even *closer* look into the building of a global information highway. Topics/issues covered will include: - Interoperability and standards issues - What critical factors stand in the way (or are yet to be resolved)? - How will the building of an NII (National Information Infrastructure) in the United States affect the rest of the world? - What are the "real world" uses of an information highway? - What will this highway look like? Guests: John Gage (HOST) - Director of the Science Office, Sun Microsystems Vinton Cerf - Vice President, Corporation for National Research Initiatives President, Internet Society Dr. Eric Schmidt - President, Sun Technology Enterprises Geoffrey Baehr - Chief Technical Officer, SunConnect If you have satellite receive capabilities and would like the satellite coordinates email the Sunergy Office at sunergy@sun.com. Also, include any specific topics or issues you would like to see covered in this broadcast. ########################## GUEST BIOGRAPHIES ######################## Dr. Eric E. Schmidt - President, Sun Technology Enterprises, Inc. Corporate Executive Officer, Sun Microsystems, Inc. Dr. Schmidt heads a subsidiary of Sun Microsystems, Inc. that includes several independent business units. Sun Technology Enterprises Inc. is made up of SunConnect, which handles network connectivity and network management products; SunPics, for printing and imaging products; SunPro, for software developer tools; SunSelect, for products that integrate UNIX with personal computers; and SunSolutions, for distributed workgroup applications. Dr. Schmidt joined Sun in June 1983 as manager of software and moved to director of software engineering before his appointment as vice president and general manager of the Software Products Division in May 1985. He was promoted to vice president of the General Systems Group in May 1988 and assumed his current position in February 1991. Prior to joining Sun, Dr. Schmidt was a member of the research staff at the Computer Science Lab at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), where he developed release tools for the Cedar programming environment project. He also held positions at Bell Laboratories and Zilog. Dr. Schmidt has a B.S. in electrical engineering from Princeton University, and an M.S. in electrical engineering and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California at Berkeley. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Vinton Cerf - Vice President, Corporation for National Research Initiatives President, Internet Society VINTON G. CERF is currently Vice President of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives, where he has managed the Digital Library, Electronic Mail, and Internet research programs since 1986. >From 1982 to 1986, Dr. Cerf worked at MCI Communications, where he developed MCI Mail. He worked at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency from 1976 to 1982, where he led the packet communications, internetting and security efforts and served as principal scientist in the Information Processing Techniques Office. At Stanford University, from 1972 to 1976, he taught electrical engineering and computer science, and coinvented the TCP/IP protocol suite. At UCLA, from 1967 to 1972, he managed the Network Measurement Center and helped develop the host protocols for the ARPANET. At IBM he performed systems engineering on the QUIKTRAN time-sharing system. Dr. Cerf is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and has served as chairman of LA-SIGART (1968), chairman of SIGCOMM (1987-1991), and a member of the ACM Council (1991-1992). He was elected a Fellow of the IEEE in 1988, and received the Koji Kobayashi Award in 1992. Dr. Cerf served as a member of the Internet Architecture Board from 1986 to 1989, and as its chairman from 1989 to 1992. He is a coorganizer of the Internet Society, and was elected its president in 1992. Dr. Cerf has served on numerous national and international committees and commissions, technical advisory boards and boards of charitable organizations. With his wife, Sigrid, he works on a Shakespeare video-captioning project, and in his copious spare time enjoys science fiction, gourmet cooking, and the collection and consumption of fine wines. Dr. Cerf received a BS in Mathematics in 1965 from Stanford University, and his MS (1970) and PhD (1972) in Computer Science from UCLA. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Gage (HOST) - Director of the Science Office, Sun Microsystems John Gage works for Bill Joy, the Chief Technical Officer of Sun, and is responsible for Sun's relationships with the world scientific and public policy communities, international scientific institutions and groups developing new forms of scientific research involving computing. He is on scientific and advisory panels of the United States National Science Foundation, the US Congress Office of Technology Assessment, the European Institute of Technology and the United States National Academy of Sciences. He has recently been appointed to the US National Research Council Mathematical Sciences Education Board. He is a member of ACM, IEEE, SIAM, AMS, AAAS, and SMPTE. He attended the Harvard Business School and the Harvard Graduate School of Public Policy. He did doctoral work in economics and mathematics at the University of Berkeley at the same time as Bill Joy. Gage subsequently left Berkeley with Joy to start Sun in 1982. Gage is on the Board of Directors of Unicode, an industry consortium of IBM, Microsoft, Apple, Novell, Sun, GO Corporation, and others to provide multilingual capability in all world scripts for all documents and applications. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Geoffrey Baehr - Chief Technical Officer, SunConnect (Biography to be added in next announcement) ********************************************************************** For information about SunFlash send mail to info-sunflash@Sun.COM. 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