John Gage

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name = John Gage


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birth_date = 1942
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field = Computer science
workplaces = Sun Microsystems
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known_for = Co-founder of Sun
Co-founder of NetDay
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John Burdette Gage (born 1942), is one of the founders of Sun Microsystems with Vinod Khosla, Scott McNealy, Bill Joy, Andy Bechtolsheim and a few others in 1982. [ [http://www.johngage.com/pages/bio.html Biography] ] He served as Chief Researcher and Vice President of the Science Office for Sun until leaving on June 9, 2008 to join Kleiner Perkins as a partner to help solve global warming.cite web
url=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121304640237058521.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
title=Sun's Gage to Join Kleiner Perkins
accessdate= 2008-06-12
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last=Buckman
first=Rebecca
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date=Jun 10, 2008
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publisher= "Wall Street Journal"] [ [http://www.kpcb.com/news/articles/2008_06_09.html John Gage Joins Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers as Partner] ] He is also best known as one of the co-founders of NetDay in 1995.

Background

Gage attended the University of California, Berkeley, the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and the Harvard Business School. While at Berkeley, he was a leader in the anti-war movement and was a delegate for Robert Kennedy in 1968 for the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, representing Berkeley and Alameda County, California. He co-chaired the Robert Kennedy campaign in Alameda County. [ [http://www.developer.com/tech/article.php/606241 John Gage: Sun's voice to the outside world] ] Gage had 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. [ [http://archive.salon.com/tech/fsp/2000/05/16/chapter_2_part_one/index.html BSD Unix: Power to the people, from the code] ] Gage founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 with Bill Joy and others.

In April, 2002, Gage joined the [http://www.markle.org/markle_programs/policy_for_a_networked_society/national_security/index.php Markle Taskforce on National Security in the Information Age] , whose two [http://www.markle.org/markle_programs/policy_for_a_networked_society/national_security/projects/taskforce_national_security.php 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 [http://www.9-11commission.gov/ 9/11 Commission] and the [http://www.wmd.gov/report/ WMD Commission] Report, formed the foundation for the 2004-2005 reforms of the intelligence and homeland security communities.

In June, 2008, Gage retired from Sun Microsystems.

NetDay

Gage is perhaps also best known as one of the founders of NetDay in 1995 with Michael Kaufman. NetDay "called on high-tech companies to commit resources to schools, libraries, and clinics worldwide so that they could connect to the Internet." cite web
url=http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-9964131-54.html
title=Sun's John Gage joins Al Gore in clean-tech investing
accessdate= 2008-06-12
author=
last= Olsen
first= Stephanie
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coauthors=
date= June 9, 2008
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publisher=] It was endorsed by President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore who were active participants in NetDay'96.cite web
url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1996/03/09/MN59762.DTL
title=Clinton, Gore in Concord Today for NetDay: 20,000 volunteers wire computers at California schools
accessdate= 2008-06-12
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last=Rubenstein
first=Steve
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date=March 9, 1996
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publisher= "San Francisco Chronicle"] In 1998, Gage was awarded the ACM Presidential Award by Chuck House, the President of the ACM for his work on NetDay. [ [http://www.sigchi.org/bulletin/1998.4/henderson3.html Policy '98: Implications for SIGCHI] ]

Global warming

In 2008, Gage joined Kleiner Perkins as a venture capitalist along with Al Gore.cite web
url=http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-9964131-54.html
title=Sun's John Gage joins Al Gore in clean-tech investing
accessdate= 2008-06-12
author=
last= Olsen
first= Stephanie
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coauthors=
date= June 9, 2008
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publisher=] His goal is to "help solve environmental problems, specifically global warming. He will focus mainly on "green" technology investments, a growing area for Kleiner, which last month announced a new $500 million fund to target large, green-tech companies. Kleiner has backed "clean" companies in areas such as electric vehicles, biofuels and others."

Notes

Publications

* Information Technology and Economic Development, in "Economic Development", 1999, Oxford University Press.

External links

* [http://www.johngage.com Official website]
* [http://www.cwheroes.org/archives/histories/Gage.pdf Smithsonian Institute Leadership Award Oral History] - 29 March 1999
* Association for Computing Machinery [http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1037851.1037866 Video Interview with John Gage]
* [http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/esgage.html Power to the People: Why is John Gage, a bearded old Berkeley troublemaker, carrying the corporate flag for the Pentagon's favorite computer maker?]