Testimony

Thank you Chairman Brooks, Ranking Member Lipinski, and the other members of the Subcommittee for this opportunity to discuss the Federal government’s Networking and Information Technology Research and Development program. I am pleased to offer my perspective on your questions based on more than 40 years of experience doing or managing computing research in academia and industry and also advising high-technology venture capital investors. Among other roles, I currently serve as the chair of the National Research Council's Computer Science and Telecommunication Board (CSTB), and recently retired from Oracle as the Director of Oracle Labs. This is an applied research laboratory first started by Sun Microsystems in 1990 and retained by Oracle when they acquired Sun in 2010. I present today's testimony as an informed individual and not as a representative of any particular organization.