Jim Mitchell Sun Fellow, VP, HPCS Research Program
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16 Network Circle umpk16-160 Menlo Park, CA 94025
Dr. Mitchell is a Sun Fellow and Vice President in Sun\'s Chief Technology Organization where he is directing and developing novel technologies for chip-to-chip communication and microelectronics packaging to enable very high performing, compact computer and electronic systems.
Previously, he was Principal Investigator on Sun\'s High Productivity Computing Systems Research project under contract with DARPA to develop the technologies to enable peta-scale supercomputers. 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 developed, 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 FORTRAN compiler. He has a Ph.D. from Carnegie-Mellon University. He has worked on programming language design & implementation (Mesa, Euclid, C++, Java), interactive programming systems, dynamic interpretation & compilation in virtual machines, 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 as well as microelectronics packaging.
Dr. Mitchell lives in Palo Alto, California with his wife, Judy, and has three children and two grandchildren. He also enjoys flying his own plane, skiing, bicycling, hiking, and cooking.
