Wednesday, October 12, 2005
EETimes.com - Sun evangelist, social activist:
"Sun Microsystems Inc. co-founder John Gage holds the type of title — chief researcher — that allows him to explore advanced computing and networking concepts on a cross-corporate, cross-academic basis one day, while advocating social-policy goals the next. ...
...Gage: We're very interested in some of the industry projects, like WGBH-Boston's metadata project, developing a standard way for describing what's held in a digital-media repository. I'm still waiting to see more efforts to tie this kind of asset management into the communications network — and into what the hardware vendors are doing to define the metadata at the moment of image creation....
...I'm not trying to say Sun is a model of altruism, but when we want to help schools, communities, the disadvantaged, we'll help sponsor something like NetDay [the program Gage founded to bring technology to underprivileged schools]. When one guy at Sun tried to brand a portion of the effort, I almost had him fired. You can't be doing this kind of thing to give your company immediate publicity...."
"Sun Microsystems Inc. co-founder John Gage holds the type of title — chief researcher — that allows him to explore advanced computing and networking concepts on a cross-corporate, cross-academic basis one day, while advocating social-policy goals the next. ...
...Gage: We're very interested in some of the industry projects, like WGBH-Boston's metadata project, developing a standard way for describing what's held in a digital-media repository. I'm still waiting to see more efforts to tie this kind of asset management into the communications network — and into what the hardware vendors are doing to define the metadata at the moment of image creation....
...I'm not trying to say Sun is a model of altruism, but when we want to help schools, communities, the disadvantaged, we'll help sponsor something like NetDay [the program Gage founded to bring technology to underprivileged schools]. When one guy at Sun tried to brand a portion of the effort, I almost had him fired. You can't be doing this kind of thing to give your company immediate publicity...."
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