IP: President names additional members of advisory committee

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

THE WHITE HOUSE


Office of the Press Secretary
(Palm Beach, Florida)




For Immediate Release       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 
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.


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 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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