John Burdette Gage was born on October 9,1942 and was the 21st employee of Sun Microsystems, where he is credited with creating the phrase The Network is the Computer.
45 Facts About John Gage
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John Gage 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.
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John Gage joined the Human Needs Project in 2012 to build a networked water source and water treatment plant in the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya.
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John Gage attended Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School.
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John Gage worked at Berkeley with Bill Joy, the person largely responsible for the authorship of Berkeley UNIX, known as BSD, from which spring many modern forms of UNIX, including Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD.
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John Gage helped found Sun Microsystems in 1982 with Bill Joy and others.
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John Gage is one of the central figures in Mark Kitchell's film Berkeley in the Sixties, recounting Berkeley's Free Speech Movement.
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In June 2008, John Gage retired from Sun Microsystems and joined Kleiner Perkins as a venture capitalist along with Al Gore.
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John Gage has served on scientific advisory panels for the US National Research Council, the US National Academy of Sciences, the United Nations, the World Bank, and the World Economic Forum.
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John Gage was appointed by President Bill Clinton to the Web Based Education Commission in 2000.
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John Gage has served on the boards of the US National Library of Medicine, of FermiLab, the Berkeley Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, and other scientific and educational groups.
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John Gage is on the boards of the Tegla Loroupe Peace Foundation in Nairobi, the Human Needs Project, and Relief International, an international humanitarian disaster relief organization.
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John Gage was born on October 9,1942, in Long Beach, California.
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John Gage's father was James Robert Gage, born in Woodville, East Texas, and president of the UCLA Class of 1935, captain in the United States Navy, and senior manager for Douglas Aircraft in Long Beach, then for McDonnell Douglas Aerospace in Seal Beach.
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John Gage's mother was Harriet Doris Burdette, born in Hollywood, California, whose grandfather crossed the Panama Isthmus to arrive in California in 1848.
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John Gage has two siblings, James Collier Gage of Honolulu, Hawaii, and Laurie Gage, chief veterinarian for the Marine Mammal Center in Marin County, and US Department of Agriculture big cat and marine mammal expert.
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John Gage was educated at Gardner Street Elementary School and LeConte Junior High School in Hollywood, California.
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John Gage attended Ensign Middle School and Newport Harbor High School, where he was student body president, All-American swimmer, and National Merit Scholar.
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John Gage received the Harvard Book Award, and graduated in 1960.
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John Gage entered the University of California, Berkeley, in the fall of 1960, in Honors Mathematics.
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John Gage created the first Community Projects Office for the Associated Students of the University of California, placing over 2,000 students in volunteer roles in schools and community organizations in Oakland and Berkeley.
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John Gage was a three-time All-American swimmer and Pacific Coast champion in the 100-yard breaststroke.
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John Gage played on the Pacific Coast champion water polo team.
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John Gage was a member of the Order of the Golden Bear and the Big C Society.
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John Gage took leave to work on the George McGovern presidential campaign.
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John Gage worked on the Robert Scheer for Congress campaign in 1966, almost defeating a Democratic congressman who supported the war.
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John Gage co-chaired the Robert F Kennedy for President campaign in 1968 in Alameda County, and was a Robert Kennedy delegate to the 1968 Chicago Convention, representing Berkeley and Oakland.
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John Gage organized a number of major antiwar demonstrations in Boston, in New York, in Washington, DC, and in Philadelphia.
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John Gage was the first field organizer for students for the McGovern Presidential campaign in California, then joined the national campaign as assistant press secretary and trip director, working for Frank Mankiewicz.
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In 2008, John Gage spent several weeks in Ankeny, Iowa, organizing for the 2008 Barack Obama campaign.
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In 1969, John Gage was asked by Bill Hanley, the owner of Hanley Sound, the staging and sound system used at Woodstock, and the system John Gage used in Washington, DC for the Vietnam Moratorium, to come to Palm Beach, Florida, to take over producing the International Palm Beach Music and Art Festival.
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Subsequently, Gage was called to rescue the Louisiana Celebration of Life Festival after two people had drowned; produced the New York Shea Stadium Festival for Peace Concert with Peter Yarrow, Janis Joplin, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis, Dionne Warwick, Paul Simon, Sha-Na-Na, Johnny Winter, and fifteen more, the Philadelphia Peace Concert, and several other events involving over 100,000 people.
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In 1980, John Gage was part of the Homebrew Computer Club, with Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Lee Felsenstein and others.
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In 1982, John Gage joined Bill Joy, Andy Bechtolsheim, Vinod Khosla, Scott McNealy and others to found Sun Microsystems.
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John Gage was responsible for all exterior relations, including marketing, sales, and technical support to customers.
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John Gage testified often to the US Congress, to United Nations ECOSOC meetings, and was part of numerous United Nations special commissions.
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In 1994, with Professor Jianping Wu of Tsinghua University, John Gage helped build the Network Research Center in the Tsinghua Main Administration Center, that became CERNET, linking over 1,000 Chinese universities.
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In 2002, John Gage joined the UN Information Technology Taskforce, to bring networking to all nations.
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In 2000, John Gage spent a year at the Harvard Kennedy School of Public Policy as a Shorenstein Fellow.
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John Gage taught a class of 90 students entitled "Technology, Journalism and Politics", for which he won the "Most Influential Course" award, awarded by Dean Joseph Nye.
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John Gage founded NetDay in 1995 with Michael Kaufman and several others.
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John Gage created zoomable maps of the 140,000 schools in the United States, placing a meter-accurate dot for each school, color-coded for whether or not the school was connected to the Internet.
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In 1998, John Gage was awarded the ACM Presidential Award by Chuck House, the President of the ACM for his work on NetDay.
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John Gage joined Connie Nielsen and David Warner in 2012 to build a large community center in Kibera, Nairobi, Kenya.
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John Gage did more than fifty satellite television programs on technology that were broadcast worldwide from Moscow, Rio, Mexico City, Beijing, Zurich, Mauna Kea, Berlin, Santiago, Kuala Lumpur, Cape Town, San Francisco, Paris, London, and other cities.