''For the character from ''Emergency!'', see John_Gage_(Emergency!).'' Image:John_Gage.jpg '''John Burdette Gage''' (born 1942), is one of the original employees of Sun_Microsystems; in 1982 he joined Vinod_Khosla, Scott_McNealy, Bill_Joy, Andy_Bechtolsheim, and fifteen others to found Sun. Today he serves as Chief Researcher and Vice President of the Science Office for Sun. ==Career== Gage attended the University_of_California,_Berkeley, the Harvard Kennedy_School_of_Government, and the Harvard_Business_School . He did doctoral work in mathematics and economics at the University_of_California,_Berkeley. Gage worked at Berkeley with Bill_Joy, the person largely responsible for the authorship of Berkeley UNIX, also known as BSD, from which springs many modern forms of UNIX, including Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD. Gage left Berkeley in 1982 with Joy to found Sun_Microsystems. He is currently the Chief Researcher and Director of the Science Office at Sun. In 1984, Gage coined the phrase "The Network is the Computer" to describe the emerging world of distributed computing; dismissed at the time by the computer industry, this phrase came to symbolize the explosion of network-based computer services as the Internet became increasingly available. 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 1968, Gage was a delegate for Robert Kennedy to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, representing Berkeley and Alameda County, California. He co-chaired the Robert Kennedy campaign in Alameda County. In 1969, Gage co-chaired the Vietnam Moratorium in New England; he was a prime organizer of the Vietnam_Moratorium demonstrations in Washington, DC. He became a member of Nixon's Enemy's List in 1971. ==Projects== In 1995, Gage created NetDay , a volunteer project to contribute the resources of world high-technology companies to schools, libraries and clinics world-wide 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 have occurred in over thirty countries. Gage is on the board of NetDay and Schools_Online, a non-profit organization dedicated to connecting the world one school at a time. In 1998, Gage was awarded the ACM Presidential Award by Robert Kahn, the President of the ACM for his work on NetDay. In 1999 he received the Smithsonian Institute Leadership Award. In 1999, President Clinton appointed Gage to the Web-Based Education Commission, which issued its report in December, 2000. In 2002, Gage taught "Technology, Media, and Governance" at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Kennedy_School_of_Government at Harvard, where he was one of five distinguished Teaching Fellows. In April, 2002, Gage joined the Markle Taskforce on National Security in the Information Age, whose two reports explore how federal, state and local governments collect, analyze and use information as it relates to national security and homeland defense. Their two reports, when joined with the reports of the 9/11 Commission and the WMD Commission Report, formed the foundation for the 2004-2005 reforms of the intelligence and homeland security communities. The next Markle Report on National Security and Homeland Defense is due in Spring, 2006. In 2005, Gage joined the United States National Academy of Science ''Committee on Scientific Communication and National Security ( CSCANS)'', formed to address the conduct and oversight of science in a time of perceived increase in threats to national security. Gage hosts Sun's "Digital Journey" - an ongoing series of television and Web-based multimedia programs analyzing new and emerging technologies. ==Memberships== He is a member of the Association_for_Computing_Machinery (ACM), and the Institute_of_Electrical_and_Electronics_Engineers (IEEE). Gage serves on the Board of Advisors for the Graduate School of Public Policy at the University_of_California,_Berkeley, the Dean's Board of Advisors at the Harvard Kennedy_School_of_Government, and the Board of Governors of the Pardee Rand Graduate School. He is a member of the International Advisory Panel for the Malaysian Multimedia Super Corridor. Gage is a member of the Board of Advisors for the George Lucas Educational Foundation in Marin County, California. Gage is an advisor to the United Nations Information and Communications Technology Task Force. He is a former member of the Board of Trustees of the Internet_Society (ISOC), the Board of Regents of the United_States_National_Library_of_Medicine, the Board of Trustees of Fermi_National_Laboratory, and the External Advisory Council for the World_Bank. Gage has served on scientific advisory panels for the United_States_National_Research_Council, the United_States_National_Academy_of_Sciences, Gage lives in Berkeley with his wife Linda, and has two children, Peter and Kate. ==External links== *Personal web site *Berkeley in the Sixties, Gage is one of the group portrayed in this documentary. *BSD Unix: Power to the people, from the code - Salon article *''Power to the People'' Wired Magazine: December 1996:Spencer Reiss *''John Gage: He IS The network'' IEEE Spectrum: May 2004: Tekla Perry === Interviews === *Smithsonian Institute Leadership Award Oral History - 29 March 1999 *Association_for_Computing_Machinery Video Interview with John Gage ===Publications=== *Information Technology and Economic Development, in ''Economic Development'', 1999, Oxford University Press. Gage, John Gage, John Gage, John Gage, John Gage, John Gage, John