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Historical Purposes OnlyAdvisory Committee on High Performance Computing andCommunications, Information Technology, and The Next
Generation InternetWhite House
October 31, 1997
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 theAdvisory 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 ofPointCast and formerly Chairman, President and CEO of Pacific Bell. He was one of thefounding 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 ofTechnology.
Dr. Joe F. Thompson, of Starkville, Mississippi, is a Distinguished Professor in theDepartment of Aerospace Engineering at Mississippi State University and was founding
Director of the National Science Foundation Engineering Research center forComputational Field Simulation at Mississippi State University. Dr. Thompson
pioneered the area of numerical grid generation, essential to computational fluiddynamics and other areas of computational field simulation. He is a member of theAmerican 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 ofTechnology.
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 afounding 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 ofChicago.
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 researchneuroscientist, focusing on the biological mechanisms underlying information
processing in nervous systems. Dr. Miller received his B.A. in Physics from theUniversity of California, Berkeley, and his Ph.D. in Biology at the University ofCalifornia, San Diego.
The Advisory Committee on High Performance Computing and Communications,Information Technology, and The Next Generation Internet will provide valuableguidance and advice on all areas of high performance computing, communications, andinformation 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 valuableguidance on the Administration's efforts to accelerate development and adoption of
information technologies that will be vital for American prosperity in the 21st century.