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About Carl Cargill
Biographical Sketch: Carl Cargill is Sun's Chief Standards Officer, reporting to Dr. Greg Papadopoulos, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer. At Sun, Cargill manages Sun's standardization strategies, activities, and portfolio. He has been at this activity (standardization) for nearly twenty years, and has written two books (Information Technology Standardization: Theory, Process, and Organizations and Open Systems Standardization: A Business Approach ), several chapters in other books on the subject, and the "Standards" entry in the Van Nostrand Reinhold Encyclopedia of Computer Science. He was the Editor-in-Chief of "StandardView", ACM's journal of Standardization, and has written scores of articles on the subject of standardization and its business and strategic applications. He has testified several times before Congress, and has been on panels for the Office of Technology Assessment, the Chicago Federal Reserve Board, and the General Accounting Office panels as an exper t on standardization. He has held positions on the W3C Advisory Board and Advisory Committee, the Board of Directors of the Open GIS Consortium, the Enterprise Grid Alliance, The Open Mobile Alliance, Object Management Group, OSGI, and numerous other groups. He was Chairman of the Governing Board of The Open Group, as well as Chair of the Standardization Policy Committee of the Information Technology Industry Council. He has been the Director of Standards at Netscape, and a standards strategist at both Sun and Digital Equipment Corporation. He has also been a product strategist, marketing manager, pricing manager, and program manager for various and sundry other companies in the IT arena. His interests include Medieval History and the history of intellectual capital. Education | ||||||||||||||||||||||
