John Gage is the Chief Researcher and Director of the Science Office, for Sun Microsystems, reporting to Bill Joy, the Chief Scientist of Sun Microsystems.

As Sun's Chief Researcher, Gage is responsible for Sun's relationships with world scientific and technical organizations, for international public policy and governmental relations in the areas of scientific and technical policy, and for alliances with the world's leading research institutions and laboratories.

Gage attended the University of California, Berkeley, the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and the Harvard Graduate School of Business. He did doctoral work in mathematics and economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and left Berkeley in 1982 to join Bill Joy at Sun Microsystems.

Gage is a member of the Mathematical Association of America, the Association for Computing Machinery, the IEEE, the Board of Regents of the US National Library of Medicine, the Board of Trustees of Fermi National Laboratory, and the Board of Trustees of ISOC .

In 1995, Gage created NetDay, a volunteer project to bring the resources of world high-technology companies to all schools and libraries to connect them to the Internet. Since 1996 over 500,000 volunteers have wired over 50,000 schools and libraries in the United States. NetDays are planned in over forty countries for 2001. Gage is on the board of NetDay, Schools Online, a non-profit organization dedicated to connecting the world one school at a time. John has also been appointed to President Clinton's Web Based Education Commission.

Gage is the host of a worldwide satellite television program, Sunergy, that explores the frontiers of computing, networking, science and mathematics. Sunergy broadcasts quarterly from different countries, focussing on worldwide developments that most affect the global scientific and technical enterprise. Over thirty broadcasts are available from Sunergy, both in video and in full-text transcript.

Gage has been a member of scientific advisory panels for the US National Research Council, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Multimedia Super Corridor project of Malaysia.

Gage lives in Berkeley with his wife, Linda, and their two children, Peter and Kate.