Jim Mitchell

Jim Mitchell - Vice President, Photonics, Interconnects and Packaging

Dr. Mitchell is Vice President, Photonics, Interconnects and Packaging in Oracle Labs, in which capacity he directs and develops novel technologies for silicon photonics (under contract with DARPA) 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 Microsystems in 1988, Dr. Mitchell was head of research and development for Acorn Computers (U.K.), where the ARM RISC chip was developed. 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 with his wife, Judy, in Santa Barbara, California, and Steamboat Springs, Colorado; they have three children and two grandchildren. He also enjoys flying, bicycling, skiing, hiking, and cooking.

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