Dr. Douglas W. Johnson
Manager, Standards Strategy, Corporate Standards Department
Chief Technology Office, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Dr. Johnson joined Sun in March of 1996 after nearly 15 years in the private and public R&D sector where he participated in a variety of activities, primarily involved with data intensive remote sensing technologies. Currently in the Corporate Standards Department, he is working to identify and further the adoption of key standards for advanced technologies and emerging markets. The impact and role of Internet technologies and standards has been a central theme in these efforts, including likely future evolution and exploitation of wireless, network-centric and related architectures.

In addition to extensive experience in designing and developing computing architectures for the analysis of diverse physical data sets, he has published more than 50 articles, reports and presentations on a variety of scientific topics, primarily in the physical sciences. These topics include laser-based chemical remote sensing, galactic structure and satellite-based image sensor design and exploitation, as well as the design and implementation of algorithms for remote sensing data analysis.

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