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Advisory Committee - Press Release from White House
Reformatted version of White House Press Release (2/12/97)
The White House
Office of the Press Secretary

For Immediate Release February 12, 1997

President Clinton names Co-Chairman and members of the Advisory
Committee on High Performance Computing and Communications,
Information Technology, and the Next Generation Internet
President Clinton today announced his intention to designate Ken Kennedy as CoChairman of the Advisory Committee on High-Performance Computing andCommunications, Information Technology, and the Next Generation Internet. In
addition to announcing the Co-Chairman, President Clinton announced his intention toappoint 19 members to this new Committee.
The Advisory Committee will provide guidance and advice on all areas of highperformance computing, communications and information technologies. TheCommission members bring a broad range of expertise and interests from businessand universities. They will provide valuable guidance to the administration’s efforts toaccelerate development and adoption of information technologies that will be vital for
American prosperity in the 21st century.
Dr. Kennedy of Houston, Texas, is Director of the center for Research on Parallel
Computation at Rice University and Noah Harding Professor of Computer Science. He isa Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association
for Computing Machinery, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; amember 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 Instituteof Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Ching-Chih Chen of Boston, Massachusetts, is a Professor in the Graduate School of Library andInformation Science, Simmons College. She is a Fellow of the American Association for theAdvancement 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 andExceptional 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 ofHughes Electronics Office of the Chairman. He chaired the Commercial Space Transportation
Advisory Committee, and served on the NASA Space Systems Technology Advisory Committee andthe USIA TV/Telecom Advisory Council.
Robert Ewald of Eagan, Minnesota, is President of Cray Research and Executive Vice President of
Silicon Graphics, Inc. He served on the Supercomputer Performance and Development Committee ofthe National Academy of Sciences.
David J. Farber of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is Alfred Fitler Moore Professor ofTelecommunications at the University of Pennsylvania, where he holds appointments in theDepartment 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 Associationfor 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 andInformation center at the University of Washington and Director of the National Network of Librariesof Medicine, Pacific Northwest. She is a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics.
Hector Garcia-Molina of Stanford, California, is Leonard Bosack and Sandra Lerner Professor in theDepartments of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He is a Fellow ofthe 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 ofElectrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. She is a Fellowof the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement ofScience, and the Association for Computing Machinery, and a member of the National Academy ofEngineering.
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 theAssociation 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 therecipient of the Grace Murray Hopper Award, the Spirit of American Creativity Award, and theRamanujan 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 ofa National Research Council study symposium on keeping the U.S. computer, communications, andentertainment industries competitive.
Raj Reddy of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is Dean of the School of Computer Science and Professor ofComputer 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 andTechnology, Professor of Medicine, and Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University Schoolof Medicine. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine at the National Academy of Sciences, aFellow of the American College of Medical Informatics and the American Association for ArtificialIntelligence, and has served on the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of theNational 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 UrbanaChampaign. 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 isVice-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, SanDiego.
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 centerfor 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 widerange of issues in high performance computing, networking and related issues.