Speaker And Advisory Board Biographies
NextGens: Impending New Technologies
October 5-6, 1999
Mr. John Perry Barlow
Vice Chairman and Co-founder
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Mr. John Perry Barlow is Vice Chairman and Co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an organization that promotes freedom of expression in digital media. He is a writer and lecturer on subjects relating to the virtualization of society. Mr. Barlow is a contributing editor of numerous publications, including Communications of the ACM, Microtimes and Mondo 2000, as well as a contributing writer for Wired. In addition, he meets frequently with government leaders and business executives. He is recognized as an eloquent commentator on computer security, virtual reality, digitized intellectual property, and the social and legal conditions arising in the global network of connected digital devices. A past lyricist for the Grateful Dead, Mr. Barlow is also a retired Wyoming cattle rancher.
Mr. C. Gordon Bell
Senior Researcher
Microsoft Corporation
Mr. Gordon Bell is one of the worlds leading authorities on computer architecture and design, having been pivotal in establishing cost-effective, powerful computers for engineering, science and industry. He spent 17 years at Digital Equipment Corp., where he was Vice President of Research and Development. Mr. Bell led the design and development of DEC's VAX distributed computing environment and many other products. He has also been involved in advising, funding and designing products at a score of other start-up companies. Among his many pursuits, Mr. Bell is currently a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Corporation's San Francisco research lab, doing work on scalable computing and telepresence. He established the computing directorate at the National Science Foundation, where he co-authored the High Performance Computing and Communications Initiative. Mr. Bell is a founder and overseer of The Computer Museum in Boston.
Mr. Daniel Bryson
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Stark Design, Inc.
Mr. Frank Casanova II
Director, QuickTime Product Marketing
Apple Computer, Inc.
Frank Casanova is responsible for all QuickTime product marketing at
Apple. Frank started work at Apple in early 1988 and helped start Apple's
high-performance CPU group which was responsible for the Macintosh IIfx,
the Macintosh Quadram family and, eventually, the PowerPC program.
In 1993, Frank joined Apple's Advanced Technology Group and headed the
Advanced Systems Laboratory where he and 52 research scientists and
engineers worked on the problems around ubiquitous computing and
information access among other "Third Paradigm" technologies.
After a two year stint as Vice President of Product Management and
Interface Design at MetaCreations, based in Santa Barbara California,
Frank returned to Apple in late 1998 to lead the Product Marketing
efforts in the QuickTime group.
Frank is an avid Heavy Metal guitarist and professional head banger who
is very happy to be back "home" at Apple.
Professor Peter Cochrane
Chief Technologist
BT Laboratories
Professor Peter Cochrane was promoted to Chief Technologist for BT Laboratories in April, 1999, and launched the concept of the Communications Consultancy Group (C2G). This is to be a new form of catalyst operation staffed with a range of senior people working inside BT and it's customer base to realize new technologies, solutions, businesses and relationships. Professor Cochrane previouslycreated andheaded advanced applications and technologies, the research organization at BT Laboratories. He led work on the future of advanced media, computing, communications, components, networks and systems. He has a 30-year career with BT and has been a consultant to numerous international companies and organizations. Professor Cochrane's work has spanned circuit, system and network design; programming, switching and transmission; human interfaces; working environments; artificial intelligence; adaptive systems and control; management system design; and work methods. He is a visiting professor at University College London and Essex University
Mr. John Ellenby
President and Chief Executive Officer
GeoVector Corporation
In 1990 John, and his two sons, started the project that became the core of GeoVector’s business. GeoVector develops and fields technology to complement the development of phones into simple to use information appliances. From 1987 to 1990, John Ellenby was Chairman and President of Agilis Corporation, a company he co-founded in 1987. Agilis pioneered wireless networking using innovative low-cost spread spectrum digital radios and their application in a modular computing system. John Ellenby founded GRiD Systems Corporation in late 1979. As Founder, President and Chairman of GRiD, Mr. Ellenby conceived and directed the early stages of what has now become the laptop industry. During his time at GRiD Mr. Ellenby led the development of a series of laptop computers, communications servers and software systems. Mr. Ellenby left GRiD in 1987 to found the Agilis Corporation. From 1974 to January 1980, Mr. Ellenby held a number of positions at Xerox/PARC. During his time at Xerox Mr. Ellenby founded an integrated design, engineering and manufacturing unit and was responsible, amongst other things, for managing the development and manufacture of the Alto II and several high-volume laser printer systems. From 1968 to 1974, Mr. Ellenby worked as Consulting Designer, Ferranti Limited in the United Kingdom on the design of multi-processor computer systems for high reliability process and communications control. John Ellenby has held a tenured position as Lecturer in the Computer Science Department of Edinburgh University and a tenured position as Assistant Lecturer at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He graduated with first class honors from University College, London in 1962 and held a State Studentship during three years in the Research Division of the LSE. John Ellenby is the co-author of a number of issued and pending US and international patents. He is master and owner of an ocean going sailboat fitted out as a floating laboratory and has completed around 25,000 miles of blue water passages.
Mr. Douglas Engelbart
Director
Boostrap Institute
Doug Engelbart, Bootstrap Institute founder and Director, has an unparalleled 30-year track record in predicting, designing, and implementing the future of organizational computing. From his early vision of turning organizations into augmented knowledge workshops, he went on to pioneer what is now known as collaborative hypermedia, knowledge management, community networking, and organizational transformation. 1A
Well-known technological firsts include the mouse, display editing, windows, cross-file editing, outline processing, hypermedia, and groupware. Integrated prototypes were in full operation under the NLS system, as early as 1968. In the last decade of its continued evolution, thousands of users have benefited from its unique team support capabilities. 1B
After 20 years directing his own lab at SRI, and 11 years as senior scientist, first at Tymshare, and then at McDonnell Douglas Corporation, Engelbart founded the Bootstrap Institute, where he is working closely with industry and government stakeholders to launch a collaborative implementation of his work. 1C
Engelbart has received numerous awards for outstanding lifetime achievement and ingenuity. His life's work, with his "big-picture" vision and persistent pioneering breakthroughs, has made a significant impact on the past, present, and future of personal, interpersonal, and organizational computing.
Dr. Murray Gell-Mann
Professor Co-Chairman of the Science Board
Santa Fe Institute
Murray Gell-Mann is Professor and Co-Chairman of the Science Board of the Santa Fe Institute, and author of the popular science book, The Quark and the Jaguar, Adventures in the Simple and the Complex.
In 1969, Professor Gell-Mann received the Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the theory of elementary particles. Professor Gell-Mann's "eightfold way" theory brought order to the chaos created by the discovery of some 100 particles in the atom's nucleus. Then he found that all of those particles, including the neutron and proton, are composed of fundamental building blocks that he named "quarks." The quarks are permanently confined by forces coming from the exchange of "gluons." He and others later constructed the quantum field theory of quarks and gluons, called "quantum chromodynamics," which seems to account for all the nuclear paticles and their strong interactions.
Besides being a Nobel laureate, Professor Gell-Mann has received the Ernest O. Lawrence Memorial Award of the Atomic Energy Commission, the Franklin Medal of the Franklin Institute, the Research Corporation Award, and the John J. Carty medal of the National Academy of Sciences. He has been awarded honorary doctoral degrees from many institutions, including Yale University, the University of Chicago, the University of Turin, Italy, and Cambridge and Oxford Universities, England. In 1988 he was listed on the United Nations Environmental Program Roll of Honor for Environmental Achievement (the Global 500). In 1994 he shared the 1989 Erice "Science For Peace" Prize.
Professor Gell-Mann is the Robert Andrews Millikan Professor of Theoretical Physics Emeritus at the California Institute of Technology, where he taught from 1955 until 1993. He is a director of the J.D. and C.T. MacArthur Foundation, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a Foreign Member of the Royal Society of London, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a former Citizen Regent of the Smithsonian, 1974-1988, and a former member of the President's Science Advisory Committee, 1969-1972. He is currently a member of the President's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology.
Although a theoretical physicist, Professor Gell-Mann's interests extend to many other subjects, including natural history, historical linguistics, archaeology, history, depth psychology, and creative thinking, all subjects connected with biological evolution, cultural evolution, and learning and thinking. His recent research at the Santa Fe Institute has focused on complex adaptive systems, which brings all these areas of study together. He is also concerned about policy matters related to world environmental quality (including conservation of biological diversity), restraint in population growth, sustainable economic development, and stability of the world political system.
Mr. Mike Hawley
Dreyfoos Professor
MIT Media Laboratory
Dr. Michael Hawley is the Alex W. Dreyfoos Assistant Professor of Media Technology at the MIT Media Lab. He is a principal investigator of Things That Think, a groundbreaking research program that explores the limitless ways digital media will infuse everyday objects. He also directs the newly created consortium "Toys of Tomorrow," which engages many of the world's leading toy companies to invent wonderful new playthings. Hawley received undergraduate degrees in music and computer science from Yale University and did his doctoral work under Marvin Minsky at MIT. His research career has involved psychology and human-computer interfaces (at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill), computer music (at IRCAM in Paris, France) and pioneering work in digital cinema at Lucasfilm, Ltd (in San Rafael, CA), where he was a scientist in the Computer Research Division. Hawley's work has involved fundamental graphics interfaces to drive audio production, digital video editing and computer graphics technology. Working with Steve Jobs, Hawley was a principal engineer at NeXT, where he developed the world's first library of digital books, including digital editions of Shakespeare and Merriam-Webster's dictionary. At MIT he produced A Day in the Life of Cyberspace in 1995 and developed a number of new wearable technologies for the 1997 WEARABLES event. Hawley received the first Jack Kilby prize for innovation in science in 1990. Hawley is a fellow and Trustee of Jonathan Edwards College at Yale and on the board of directors of the Rutgers Jazz Institute. He is a one-time Duncan Yo-Yo champion, a former luger, and member of the United States Bobsled Federation. Also an accomplished pianist, he has studied with Ward Davenny, Claude Frank, David Deveau, and Earl Wild.
Mr. Ray Idaszak
Chief Technical Officer and Co-founder
Alternate Realities Corporation
Dr. Sundaresan Jayaraman, PhD
Professor
Georgia Institute of Technology
Dr. Sundaresan Jayaraman is a Professor of Textile Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia. He and his research students have made significant contributions in the following areas: (i) Enterprise Architecture and Modeling Methodologies for Information Systems; (ii) Engineering Design of Intelligent Textile Structures; (iii) Design and Development of KnowledgeBased Systems (KBS) for textiles and apparel; and (iv) Multimedia Educational Systems. Most recently, his group's research has resulted in the realization of the world's first "Wearable Motherboard©. This contribution has been featured as one of the "21 Breakthroughs that Could Change Your Life in the 21st Century" in a Special Issue of LIFE Magazine entitled Medical Miracles for the Next Millennium, Fall 1998. He received his Ph.D. degree from North Carolina State University, in 1984, and the M.Tech and B.Tech degrees from the University of Madras, India, in 1978 and 1976, respectively. He was involved in the design and development of TK!Solver, the first equation-solving program from Software Arts, Inc., Cambridge, MA. Dr. Jayaraman worked as a Product Manager at Software Arts, Inc., and at Lotus Development Corporation, Cambridge, MA, before joining Georgia Tech in fall 1985. Professor Jayaraman is a recipient of the 1989 Presidential Young Investigator Award from NSF for his research in the area of computeraided manufacturing and enterprise architecture. In September 1994, he was elected a Fellow of the Textile Institute, (UK). In April 1997, he received the Georgia Outstanding Manufacturing Researcher of the Year Award from Georgians for Manufacturing. His publications include a textbook on computer-aided problem solving published by McGraw-Hill in 1991. Dr. Jayaraman is Technical Editor, Information Technology, for America's Textiles International, a leading textile trade publication.
Mr. Bill Joy
Chief Scientist and Co-founder
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Bill Joy, Chief Scientist of Sun Microsystems, Inc., is a co-founder of the company and a member of the Executive Committee. Bill received a B.S.E.E. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan in 1975, after which he attended graduate school at U.C. Berkeley where he was the principal designer of Berkeley UNIX (BSD) and received a M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. The Berkeley version of UNIX became the standard in education and research, garnering evelopment support from DARPA, and was notable for introducing virtual memory and internetworking using TCP/IP to UNIX. BSD was widely distributed in source form so that others could learn from it and improve it; this style of software distribution has now led to the "open source" movement, of which BSD is now recognized to be one of the earliest examples. For his work on Berkeley UNIX, Bill received the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award which is given for outstanding work in Computer Science done when the recipient is under the age of thirty. In 1993, Joy was given the Lifetime Achievement Award of the USENIX Association, "For profound intellectual achievement and unparalleled services to the UNIX community." Since joining Sun from Berkeley in 1982, he has led Sun's technical strategy, spearheading its open systems philosophy. He designed Sun's Network File System (NFS), and was a co-designer of the SPARC icroprocessor Architecture. In 1991 he did the basic pipeline design of UltraSparc-I and its multimedia processing features. This basic pipeline is the one used in all of Sun's SPARC microprocessors shipping today. More recently, Bill has led design investigations of architectures for UltraSparc V, driven the initial business and technical strategy for Java, co-designed the picoJava and ultraJava processor architectures, co-authored the specification for the Java Programming Language, and co-designed the lexical scoping and reflection APIs for Java version 1.1. Bill's most recent work is on the Jini distributed computing technology for networking computer devices using Java, and on the Sun Community Source Licensing (SCSL) model, designed to allow companies to share their intellectual property in source form, to facilitate cooperation with customers, partners, educators and researchers. Further information on the SCSL is available at In 1997, Joy was appointed by President Clinton as Co-Chairman of the Presidential Information Technology Advisory Committee. The Advisory Committee is providing guidance and advice on all areas of high-performance computing, communications and information technologies to accelerate development and adoption of information technologies that will be vital for American prosperity in the twenty-first century. The report of the committee is available at Bill was appointed as Chief Scientist of Sun in 1998. His current research is into new uses of distributed computing enabled using Java and Jini, new methods of human-computer interaction, new microprocessor and system architectures, and the uses in computing of scientific advances in areas such as complex adaptive systems, quantum computing, and the cognitive sciences. Bill was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1999. Bill has 11 issued patents, with 12 in progress.
Dr. Alan C. Kay
Vice President and Disney Fellow
Walt Disney Imagineering, Research and Development
Dr. Alan C. Kay is one of the founders of the Vanguard program and is a renowned visionary in modern computer science. A foremost authority in the personal computer industry on making systems easy to use and program, he is best known for developing the idea of personal computing, the conception of the intimate laptop computer, and inventing the now ubiquitous overlapping window interface that has made PCs easier to use. He also invented modern object-oriented programming. His current interests revolve around creating better learning environments for children and adults, especially by understanding better ways to extend, capture, transmit and think about ideas via computer media. Kay was a co-founder of Xerox Corp.'s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Chief Scientist at Atari Inc., and a Fellow at Apple Computer.
Dr. Leonard Kleinrock
Chairman
TTI/Vanguard
Dr. Leonard Kleinrock is a world-renowned figure in computer networking and the founder of Technology Transfer Institute (TTI). He is a father of the Internet, having been the first to develop the underlying principles of packet switching. A professor of Computer Science at the University of California at Los Angeles, Dr. Kleinrock has always worked at the frontier of new technology, including current interests in nomadic computing and gigabit networks. Dr. Kleinrock is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including the L.M. Ericsson Prize, and the Marconi International Fellowship Award. He has written six books and over 200 professional papers and is a keenly sought after speaker to business and technical audiences on the future of computing and communications.