Advisory Committee on High Performance Computing and Communications,
Information Technology, and The Next Generation Internet
White House
October 31, 1997
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President Clinton names David W. Dorman, Dr. Joe F. Thompson,
Dr. Irving Wladawsky-Berger, and Dr. John P. Miller as members of
the Advisory Committee on High Performance Computing and Communications,
Information Technology, and the Next Generation Internet
The President today announced his intent to appoint David W. Dorman,
Dr. Joe F. Thompson, Dr. Irving Wladawsky-Berger, and Dr. John P.
Miller as Members of the Advisory Committee on High Performance Computing
and Communications, Information Technology, and the Next Generation
Internet.
Mr. David W. Dorman, of San Francisco, California, is currently President
and CEO of PointCast and formerly Chairman, President and CEO of Pacific
Bell. He was one of the founding leaders of the U.S. competitive long
distance industry. Mr. Dorman holds a B.S. degree in Industrial Management
with high honors from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Dr. Joe F. Thompson, of Starkville, Mississippi, is a Distinguished
Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Mississippi
State University and was founding Director of the National Science
Foundation Engineering Research center for Computational Field Simulation
at Mississippi State University. Dr. Thompson pioneered the area of
numerical grid generation, essential to computational fluid dynamics
and other areas of computational field simulation. He is a member
of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, SIAM, the
IEEE Computer Society, and is on the Editorial Board of the Journal
of Computational Physics. Dr. Thompson received a B.S. in Physics
and an M.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Mississippi State University,
and a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from the Georgia Institute of
Technology.
Dr. Irving Wladawsky-Berger, of Fairfield County, Connecticut, is
General Manager, IBM Internet Division at IBM Corporation. He is responsible
for the company's overall Internet strategy, including advanced technology
programs such as Internet 2. He is a founding member of the Computer
Sciences and Telecommunications Board of the National Research Council,
a former member of the Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics
and Resources, and also of the National Research Council. Dr. Wladawsky-Berger
received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Chicago.
Dr. John P. Miller, of Bozeman, Montana, is Director of the center
for Computational Biology at Montana State University in Bozeman,
Montana. He is an active research neuroscientist, focusing on the
biological mechanisms underlying information processing in nervous
systems. Dr. Miller received his B.A. in Physics from the University
of California, Berkeley, and his Ph.D. in Biology at the University
of California, San Diego.
The Advisory Committee on High Performance Computing and Communications,
Information Technology, and The Next Generation Internet will provide
valuable guidance and advice on all areas of high performance computing,
communications, and information technologies to the President, the
Office of Science and Technology Policy, and the Federal agencies
involved in the Computing, Information, and Communications R & D,
including the Next Generation Internet Initiative. They will also
provide valuable guidance on the Administration's efforts to accelerate
development and adoption of information technologies that will be
vital for American prosperity in the 21st century.
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