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Audio archives of most keynote presentations are available, courtesy of PC Week Radio. So you can still hear them, in even if couldn't go to them, or if you just want to review the keynotes again once you get back home. PC Week Radio broadcasts in RealAudio 3.0. Before accessing the archives, make sure you've downloaded the RealAudio 3.x player. (Trouble with your audio connection? Try clicking here.)
Zipfiles of keynote transcripts and slides are available for downloading:
Baratz Slides/Transcript
Following are the JavaOne '97 Keynote Presenters.
James Gosling
Dr. Alan Baratz
Before Sun, Dr. Baratz was president and CEO of Delphi, the on-line business unit of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. In that role, he was responsible for transforming Delphi into the first full Internet-based on-line content and access service. Prior to Delphi, Dr. Baratz held a number of senior management positions with IBM in New York, culminating in his being named the company's director of strategic development.
John Gage, Master of Ceremonies
Dr. Eric Schmidt
Vinton G. Cerf
From 1982 to 1986, Cerf was vice president of MCI Digital Information Services serving as chief engineer in the development of MCI Mail, one of the first commercial electronic mail services. He played a major role in sponsoring the development of Internet-related data packet technologies during his stint with the Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) from 1976 to 1982.
Scott McNealy
McNealy draws much of his early experience from the auto business. Since taking the reins as CEO at Sun in 1984, he has steered the company to constant growth and profitability. In the process, the company has maintained its reputation as a strong competitor and a constant innovator. In 1995, Sun was named one of the worlds' 100 best-managed companies (by Industry Week) and NcNealy himself as one of the nation's top 25 managers (by Business Week). The Technical Business Research Group has recently rated Sun the #1 technology company, praising its market, technology, product, manufacturing and management strategies.
Tune in as PC Week intervews these two Java luminaries. Archived for one week.
Dana Carvey 
Emmy-award winning comedian Dana Carvey has made that successful jump from
stand-up to television to the big screen. In the past few years, Carvey has
starred in Wayne's World, Wayne's World 2, The Road To Wellville, Clean Slate
and Trapped in Paradise. In 1992, Carvey left Saturday Night Live after seven
seasons on NBC. A repertory member since the 1986-87 season, Carvey is best
known for his characters: The Church Lady, Hans, Garth and Weekend Updates
Grumpy Old Man. Carvey has also received widespread praise for his uncanny
comedic impersonations of George Bush, Ross Perot, Jerry Brown and David Duke.
Carvey was born June 2, 1955, in Missoula, MT. While a student at San Francisco State University, he won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition. After his graduation (with a degree in communication arts), he played at numerous clubs in the Bay Area and then moved to Los Angeles in 1981 to pursue his career.
Jeff Johnson
Mr. Johnson is a Hubble veteran with 10 years experience developing user interfaces and data displays for various components of the ground system. In his role as a prime system architect, he was key in persuading the HST Project to adopt Java technology as a major component of the system concept and design. Mr. Johnson has also been at the forefront of developing practical applications of Java for data access and display.
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Keynote Hours: Wednesday, April 2 8:30am- 10:30am: James Gosling & Alan Baratz 3:00pm- 4:30pm: Dr. Eric Schmidt & Vinton G. Cerf Thursday, April 3 8:30am- 9:30am: Scott McNealy 1:45pm- 2:45pm: PCWeek Talk Show w/ McNealy & Baratz Dana Carvey Friday, April 4 8:30am - 9:30am: Jeff Johnson |
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As a vice president and Sun Fellow, Gosling is the lead engineer and key
architect behind the Java technology. Gosling has been involved in
distributed computing since his arrival at Sun in 1984. His first project
was the NeWS (tm) window system. Before joining Sun, he built a
multiprocessor version of UNIX (R); the original Andrew window system and
toolkit; and several compilers and mail systems. He also built the original
UNIX 'Emacs' text editor and helped build a satellite data acquisition
system.
As president of JavaSoft, Dr. Alan Baratz is in charge of developing,
marketing and supporting products based on Java technology to customers
worldwide and through Sun Microsystems, Inc.'s other existing business units.
He oversees JavaSoft's efforts to continue enhancing the Java Platform
and work with third parties to create application tools, systems platforms
and services that will augment Java's capabilities.
Dr. Baratz joined Sun
when JavaSoft was established in January 1996.
Gage 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 U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment, the European
Institute of Technology and the United States National Academy of Sciences.
He was also appointed to the U.S. National Research Council Mathematical
Sciences Educational Board.
Gage is on the Board of Directors of Unicode, an industry consortium
that provides multilingual capability in all world scripts for all documents
and applications.
In his role as chief technology officer, Dr. Eric Schmidt is widely
recognized as an Internet pioneer and has been instrumental in the widespread
acceptance of Java. In addition, he is responsible for coordinating all
aspects of Sun's core technologies, such as SPARC (tm) microprocessors and
the Solaris (tm) operating environment. Dr. Schmidt works with engineering
and technology groups within Sun to maintain Sun's technological edge in
computer and networking technology and examines emerging areas such as
interactive multimedia and broad-band networks. He also manages Sun's
Research and Development laboratories and a number of new software and
networking businesses for Sun.
Vinton Cerf is Senior Vice President of Internet Architecture and Engineering
of MCI Communications Corporation. Cerf is responsible for the development
of MCI's Internet network, the world's fastest and largest Internet backbone.
He oversees the design and development of the network architecture that will
enable MCI to deliver a combination of data, information, voice and video for
businesses and consumers. Cerf is the co-developer of the computer networking
protocol, TCP/IP, which has become the language for Internet communications.
Sun Microsystems--a company which Scott McNealy helped to found in 1982--is
the quintessential Silicon Valley success story. In just 14 years, the
company has dramatically surfed the rightsizing wave in corporate computing
to become the leading global supplier of networked computer systems, with
revenue last year of more than seven billion dollars. For more than a
decade, McNealy has been advancing Sun's networked vision and slogan-"The
Network is the Computer." Now, according to Business Week: "Sun's mantra has
begun to resonate around the Globe..."
Mr. Johnson is a lead engineer on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Vision
2000 Control Center Systems Project, which is in the process of implementing
a new, state-of-the-art ground system for the Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble,
the world's most complex scientific satellite, has returned an astounding
series of astronomical discoveries since its launch in 1990. The
re-engineering effort of Hubble is focused on harnessing new technologies such
as Java to provide major increases in efficiencies and system flexibility. this
system is responsible for the real-time control and execution of scientific
observations and for the monitoring of health and safety of the spacecraft and
its science instruments.