JOHN GAGE

John Gage is the Chief Researcher and Director of the Science Office, for Sun Microsystems, Inc. He is responsible for Sun's relationships with world scientific and technical organizations, for international public policy and governmental relations in the areas of scientific and technical policy, and for alliances with the world's leading research institutions. In 1995, Gage created NetDay, a volunteer project to bring the resources of high-technology companies to schools and libraries to connect them to the Internet. Since then over 500,000 volunteers have wired over 50,000 schools and libraries in the United States. NetDays are planned in over thirty countries.

In late 1999, President Clinton appointed Gage to the Web Based Education Commission, which issued its report December, 2000. The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government named Gage as one of five distinguished journalists and scholars to be its 2000 Fall Fellows. He taught a course on "Technology, Media, and Governance" during the fall semester, 2000. Gage is also a frequent host on Sun's "Digital Journey" - an ongoing series of Web-based multimedia programs that seek to gain a more complete understanding of new and emerging technologies in their business, social, environmental, and cultural contexts.

Gage attended the University of California, Berkeley, the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and the Harvard Graduate School of Business. He did doctoral work in mathematics and economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and left Berkeley in 1982 to join Bill Joy as one of the original employees of Sun Microsystems. He is a member of the Mathematical Association of America, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Gage has served on scientific advisory panels for the US National Research Council and the National Academy of Sciences. He has also been a member of the Board of Regents of the US National Library of Medicine, the Board of Trustees of Fermi National Laboratory, the External Advisory Council for the World Bank, and the Board of Trustees of the Internet Society (ISOC). Gage lives in Berkeley with his wife Linda, and their two children, Peter and Kate.

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