John Gage | |
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 John Gage in October 2004 | |
| Born | John Burdette Gage October 9, 1942 Long Beach, California, U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley Harvard Kennedy School Harvard Business School Newport Harbor High School Alliance Française |
| Known for | VP at Sun Co-founder of NetDay, JavaOne |
| Spouse | Linda Schacht Gage |
| Awards | ACM Computing, Computerworld Smithsonian Award, Federal Networking |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science, water |
| Institutions | Sun Microsystems, Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers, Markle Foundation, Human Needs Project |
John Burdette Gage (born October 9, 1942) is a retired computer scientist and technology executive. He was the 21st employee of Sun Microsystems,[1] where he is credited with creating the phrase The Network is the Computer.[1] He served as Sun's vice president and chief researcher and director of the Science Office,[2] until leaving on June 9, 2008, to join Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers as a partner to work on green technologies for global warming; he departed KPCB in 2010 to apply what he had learned "to broader issues in other parts of the world".[3][4][5]
In 2006, he joined the board of the Tegla Loroupe Peace Foundation, to build a school and orphanage in Kapenguria, in remote north-west Kenya.
In 2012, he helped build the Kibera Town Centre, a major water and community education center in the middle of Kibera, Kenya, the largest slum in Africa.[6]
He is known as one of the co-founders of NetDay in 1995, a crowd-sourced effort to bring the Internet to every school in the world. NetDay was the first large-scale crowd-sourced mass movement on the Internet. He joined the Human Needs Project in 2012 to build a networked water source and water treatment plant in the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya.[7]
For twelve years he hosted the annual JavaOne conference, bringing 20,000 Java programmers to San Francisco and establishing the Java language in over 95% of mobile devices, and as the basis of the Android operating system.
- ^ a b Reiss, Spencer (1996-12-01). "Power to the People". Wired.
- ^ "The Technology Chronicles : John Gage Leaves Sun Microsystems To Become A Venture Capitalist". The San Francisco Chronicle. 2008-06-09.
- ^ Buckman, Rebecca (June 10, 2008). "Sun's Gage to Join Kleiner Perkins". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2008-06-12.
- ^ "John Gage Joins Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers as Partner". Archived from the original on August 2, 2008.
- ^ Austin, Scott; Hay, Timothy (March 31, 2010). "John Gage Departing Kleiner Perkins After Less Than Two Years". The Wall Street Journal.
- ^ "Human Needs Project". Human Needs Project. Retrieved 2016-03-04.
- ^ "Technology Visionary John Gage Joins OSET Institute Board to Drive U.S. and Global Election Security Initiatives". www.businesswire.com. 2018-03-15. Retrieved 2022-10-16.