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Dr. Mitchell is a Sun Fellow and Vice President of Sun's High Productivity Computing Systems Research project under contract with DARPA. Prior to this, he was Vice President in charge of Sun Microsystems Laboratories. Before that he was Chief Technology Officer, Java Consumer & Embedded products, which followed his time as VP of Technology & Architecture in the JavaSoft Division. Prior to his involvement with Java Technology, Dr. Mitchell was in charge of the Spring distributed, object-oriented operating system research in Sun Laboratories and SunSoft. Before joining Sun in 1988, Dr. Mitchell was head of research and development for Acorn Computers (U.K.), where the ARM RISC chip was designed, and President of the Acorn Research Center in Palo Alto, California. In 1980-81 he was Senior Visiting Fellow at the Cambridge University Computing Laboratory. From 1971-84 he was at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and was a Xerox Fellow. Dr. Mitchell has been working with computers since 1962 at the University of Waterloo where he and three other undergraduates developed the first WATFOR compiler. He has a Ph.D. from Carnegie-Mellon University and has worked on programming language design & implementation (Mesa, Euclid, C++, Java), interactive programming systems, dynamic interpretation & compilation, document preparation systems, user interface design, distributed transactional file systems, and distributed, object-oriented operating systems. He has also worked on the design of hardware for computer graphics, high-level language execution, and audio input output. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
