Reformatted version of White
House Press Release (2/21/97)
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The White
House
Office of the Press Sectretary
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| For Immediate
Release |
Febuary
21, 1997 |
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President Clinton names Co-Chairman 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 Bill
Joy of Aspen, Colorado, as Co-Chairman of the Advisory Committee on
High-Performance Computing and Communications, Information Technology,
and the Next Generation Internet.
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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 administration's efforts to accelerate development
and adoption of information technologies that will be vital for American
prosperity in the twenty-first century.
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Mr. Joy is a co-founder and current Vice President for Research
at Sun Microsystems, a leading manufacturer of powerful computer workstations.
He is researching new architectures for human-computer interaction,
involving new kinds of interfaces, new system and application software
architectures, and new ways of storing information to make information
systems more agreeable to use.
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Mr. Joy was the principal designer of the University of California,
Berkeley, version of the UNIX operating system whose networking protocols
and implementations helped spawn the Internet and in the 1980's he
spearheaded Sun's evangelism of the "open systems" model
of computing which allows different groups to contribute design by
making the specifications of its components freely available.
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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 the high performance computing, networking and related issues.
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