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Appendix B: Biographies of Committee Members
Pages 224-232

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... He was formerly vice president for technical strategy and chief scientist at Digital Equipment Corporation, where he led the creation of the research laboratories for Digital focused on distributed computing, high-performance computing, Internetworking, and human-computer interfaces. He also initiated work that led to Digital's Ethernet, workstations, Unix, and Internet products.
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... She was a member of the Department of Energy Program Review Committee on Airborne Nuclear Waste Management, a member of the advisory panel in support of the congressional Office of Technology Assessment's study of magnetic fusion research and
From page 226...
... He began his career at Bell Labs conducting research on semiconductor microwave and millimeter-wave devices. Later, he supervised a group that developed magnetic bubble computer memories.
From page 227...
... One of these departments initiated work on a novel machine architecture, organization, and design known as America, which led to the IBM RS/6000 workstations. He subsequently managed the Veridical User Environments department that engaged in research into innovative user interfaces including multimodal interfaces, virtual worlds technology, and 3D visualization.
From page 228...
... Sloan School Senior Executive Program. A fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., Dr.
From page 229...
... She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the American Society for Cell Biology. She has served on several other National Research Council committees, notably the Committee on Antarctic Policy and Science, the Task Force on Alternative Organizations for the Future of Space Science, and the Committee on Building an Environmental Management Science Program.
From page 230...
... He received the inaugural Outstanding Alumnus Award of the UCLA Computer Science Department as part of its twenty-fifth anniversary and has received the IEEE Technical Achievement Award, the IEEE Reynold B Johnson Information Storage Award, and the IEEE John von Neumann Medal.
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... He operates his own firm, Windham Consulting, and also serves as a senior associate with R Wayne Sayer and Associates, a government relations company.
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... Watson Research Center in 1970, where he focused on organizing technology transfer programs to move the innovations of computer science from IBM's research labs into its product divisions. After joining IBM's product development organization in 1985, Dr.


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