Technology, Change, and Opportunity in Higher Education

The boundaries of the campus are disappearing. Students are now life long customers. Networked information access is becoming key differentiator between universities.

The forces of change are creating unprecedented challenges in the educational community. We must understand them and proactively address them to further our teaching and research missions.

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 US Congress Office of Technology Assessment, the European Institute of Technology, and the United States National Academy of Sciences. He has recently been appointed to the US National Research Council Mathematical Sciences Education Board.

Gage is a member of ACM, IEEE, SIAM, AMS, AAAS, and SMPTE. He attended the Harvard Business School and the Harvard Graduate School of Public Policy. He did doctoral work in economics and mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley at the same time as Bill Joy. Gage subsequently left Berkeley with Joy to start Sun in 1982.

Gage is on the Board of Directors of Unicode, and industry consortium of IBM, Microsoft, Apple, Novell, Sun, GO Corporation, and others to provide multilingual capability in all world scripts for all documents and applications.