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Appendix B 

 Committee and Staff Biographical Information 



FRANK PRESS, Chair, is the Cecil and Ida Green Senior Fellow at the Carnegie 

 Institution. He served as president of the National Academy of Sciences from 1981 

 to 1993 and as the president's science adviser during the Carter administration. A 

 geophysicist, he has served on the faculties of Columbia University, California Insti- 

 tute of Technology, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He served on the 

 president's Science Advisory Committee during the Kennedy administration and on 

 the presidential Advisory Committee during the Ford administration. He was ap)- 

 pointed by president Nixon to the National Science Board of the National Science 

 Foundation and also served on the Lunar and Planetary Missions Board of the Na- 

 tional Aeronautics and Space Administration. Among his many honors, Dr Press 

 received the Japan Prize and theVannevar Bush Award in 1993 and the National 

 Medal of Science in 1994. 



LEW ALLEN, JR., is chairman of the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. 

 From 1982 to 1990, he served as vice president of the California Institute of Technol- 

 ogy and director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Prior to his association with 

 CalTech and JPL, he served as Air Force chief of staff and as a member of the' joint 

 Chiefs of Staff Dr Allen also served as director of the National Security' Agency 

 from 1973 to 1977. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. 



DAVID H.AUSTON is the provost of Rice University. Prior to his appointment 

 at Rice, he was professor of electrical engineering and applied physics and dean of 

 the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Columbia University. He also was 

 a member of the technical staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories. He is the recipient of the 

 R.W. Wood Prize from the Optical Society of America, the Quantum Electronics 

 Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and the Morris E. 

 Leeds Award. He is a member of both the National Academies of Sciences and 

 Engineering. 



FOREST BASKETT is the chief technology officer and senior vice president of 

 research and development at Silicon Graphics. Since joining Silicon Graphics in 

 1986, Dr Baskett has led engineering teams in the design of multiprocessing work- 

 stations and graphics structures. Before joining Silicon Graphics, Dr Baskett was 

 the director of Digital Equipment Corporation's Western Research Laboratories, 

 where he was the leader of the Titan Project, designing and building research proto- 

 types of reduced instruction set computing (RISC) systems. Prior to his work with 

 Digital, he spent 1 1 years as a professor of computer science and electrical engineer- 

 ing at Stanford University'. Dr Baskett is a member of the National Academy of 

 Engineering. 



BARRY R. BLOOM is the Weinstock Professor of Microbiology and Immimol- 

 ogy at the .Mbert Einstein College of Medicine and an investigator for the Howard 

 Hughes Medical Institute. He has been a consultant to the White House in interna- 

 tional health policy, chaired committees at the World Health Organization, and 



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