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	       SUNERGY - LIVE INTERACTIVE SATELLITE BROADCAST #8
			       January 11, 1994
			    8:30 - 10:00 am (PST)

		     "Global Information Infrastructures"

In the last Sunergy broadcast the topic of the Internet was discussed.
During that program we took a look at some of the ways that the 
Internet acts as both supplier and retriever of information, 
internationally.  We also discussed US government policy and security
issues.

Sunergy #8 will take an even *closer* look into the building
of a global information highway.

Topics/issues covered will include:

	- Interoperability and standards
	- What critical factors stand in the way (or are yet
	  to be resolved)?
	- How will the building of an NII (National Information
	  Infrastructure) in the United States affect the rest of
          the world?
	- What are the "real world" uses of an information highway?
        - What will this highway look like?

 
Guests:
John Gage (HOST) - Director of the Science Office, Sun Microsystems

Vinton Cerf - Vice President, Corporation for National Research Initiatives
              President, Internet Society

Dr. Eric Schmidt - President, Sun Technology Enterprises

Geoffrey Baehr - Chief Technical Officer, SunConnect

If you have satellite receive capabilities and would like the 
satellite coordinates email the Sunergy Office at sunergy@sun.com.

Also, include any specific topics or issues you would like to see 
covered in this broadcast.



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Dr. Eric E. Schmidt - President, Sun Technology Enterprises, Inc.
                      Corporate Executive Officer, Sun Microsystems, Inc.


Dr. Schmidt heads a subsidiary of Sun Microsystems, Inc. that includes 
several independent business units. Sun Technology Enterprises Inc. is 
made up of SunConnect, which handles network connectivity and network 
management products; SunPics, for printing and imaging products; 
SunPro, for software developer tools; SunSelect, for products that 
integrate UNIX with personal computers; and SunSolutions, for 
distributed workgroup applications.

Dr. Schmidt joined Sun in June 1983 as manager of software and moved 
to director of software engineering before his appointment as 
vice president and general manager of the Software Products 
Division in May 1985. He was promoted to vice president of the 
General Systems Group in May 1988 and assumed his current 
position in February 1991.

Prior to joining Sun, Dr. Schmidt was a member of the research 
staff at the Computer Science Lab at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center 
(PARC), where he developed release tools for the Cedar programming 
environment project. He also held positions at Bell Laboratories 
and Zilog.

Dr. Schmidt has a B.S. in electrical engineering from Princeton University, 
and an M.S. in electrical engineering and a Ph.D. in computer science 
from the University of California at Berkeley.

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VINTON G. CERF is currently Vice President of the Corporation for
National Research Initiatives, where he has managed the Digital Library,
Electronic Mail, and Internet research programs since 1986.  
From 1982 to 1986, Dr. Cerf worked at MCI Communications, where he 
developed MCI Mail.  He worked at the Defense Advanced Research 
Projects Agency from 1976 to 1982, where he led the packet 
communications, internetting and security efforts and served as 
principal scientist in the Information Processing Techniques Office.  
At Stanford University, from 1972 to 1976, he taught electrical 
engineering and computer science, and coinvented the TCP/IP protocol 
suite.  At UCLA, from 1967 to 1972, he managed the Network Measurement 
Center and helped develop the host protocols for the ARPANET.  
At IBM he performed systems engineering on the QUIKTRAN time-sharing 
system.

Dr. Cerf is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery 
(ACM), and has served as chairman of LA-SIGART (1968), 
chairman of SIGCOMM (1987-1991), and a member of the ACM Council 
(1991-1992).  He was elected a Fellow of the IEEE in 1988, and 
received the Koji Kobayashi Award in 1992.  Dr. Cerf served as a
 member of the Internet Architecture Board from 1986 to 1989, and
 as its chairman from 1989 to 1992.  He is a coorganizer of the 
Internet Society, and was elected its president in 1992.  Dr. Cerf 
has served on numerous national and international committees and 
commissions, technical advisory boards and boards of charitable 
organizations.  With his wife, Sigrid, he works on a Shakespeare 
video-captioning project, and in his copious spare time enjoys 
science fiction, gourmet cooking, and the collection and consumption
of fine wines.  Dr. Cerf received a BS in Mathematics in 1965 from 
Stanford University, and his MS (1970) and PhD (1972) in Computer 
Science from UCLA.

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 John Gage 
 Director, Science Office
 Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation

 John Gage works for Bill Joy, the Chief Technical Officer of
 Sun, and is responsible for Sun's relationships with the world
 scientific and public policy communities, international scientific
 institutions and groups developing new forms of scientific research
 involving computing.

 He is on scientific and advisory panels of the United States 
 National Science Foundation, the US Congress Office of Technology
 Assessment, the European Institute of Technology and the United
 States National Academy of Sciences. He has recently been appointed
 to the US National Research Council Mathematical Sciences Education
 Board.

 He is a member of ACM, IEEE, SIAM, AMS, AAAS, and SMPTE.

 He attended the Harvard Business School and the Harvard Graduate
 School of Public Policy.  He did doctoral work in economics and 
 mathematics at the University of Berkeley at the same time as 
 Bill Joy.  Gage subsequently left Berkeley with Joy to start 
 Sun in 1982.

 Gage is on the Board of Directors of Unicode, an industry consortium
 of IBM, Microsoft, Apple, Novell, Sun, GO Corporation, and others to 
 provide multilingual capability in all world scripts for all 
 documents and applications. 

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Geoffrey Baehr - Chief Technical Officer, SunConnect
(Biography to be added in next announcement)