Shirley A. Jackson, Ph. D. Anthony R. James Arthur E. Johnson Eddie Bernice Johnson Sandra K. Johnson, Ph.D.
President Executive Vice President Senior Vice President Texas-30th Democrat Senior Technical Staff, CTO
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute President, Shared Corporate Strategic U.S. House of Representatives Global Small and
Services Group Development Medium Business
Southern Company Lockheed Martin Corporation IBM Corporation
mathematics from Paine College and an autonomic computing makes it possible To rectify that need, Johnson ran for and,
M.S. in computer science from Howard to monitor and reallocate resources with- in 1972, won a seat in the Texas House of
University, spent 25 years in a variety of out human intervention. Representatives, and became chair of its
managerial positions with IBM, where he labor committee – the first woman in the
pioneered systems integration business In addition, Harrigan has created a state’s history to head a major legislative
for commercial customers. This became student-managed company called Student committee. Five years later, President
IBM’s business prototype and primary Technical Services, to provide technical Jimmy Carter chose her to be regional
revenue source after it transitioned from support for students, faculty and staff. director of the Department of Health,
a product development company to a STS actually hires and trains student Education and Welfare, a position she
service company. employees – and evaluates and fires them held until 1981.
if necessary.
Harrigan also taught at several schools In 1986 she became the first African
– including Bennett, Federal City and Eddie Bernice Johnson American since reconstruction to be
Post Colleges, and Winston-Salem and Congresswoman/ Ranking Dem. Member, elected to the state senate, where she
Howard Universities – before coming to U.S. House of Representatives pushed for legislation barring hospitals
North Carolina in 2000. from dumping indigent patients. Clos-
Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson ing the gap between white and minor-
In his current role, Harrigan is melding has spent her entire adult life mixing sci- ity students in science and math were
five systems – converged networks, perva- ence and public service. priorities for Johnson, and she pushed for
sive computing, grid computing, storage the creation of the Townview Science and
area networks, and autonomic computing The eight terms Dallas representative, Math Magnet School in Dallas. Townview
– to provide students with an any time, the ranking member on the House is consistently rated one of the best high
anywhere, any device computing envi- Water Resources and Development and schools in the nation, and leads the city in
ronment. Harrigan’s converged networks the research subcommittees, received the numbers of students receiving perfect
combine separate voice, video and data her nursing training at the University scores on the math portions of the SAT
network into one consolidated data of Notre Dame in 1955 and, 20 years exams.
system. The pervasive computing allows later, a Masters in public administration
wireless computing anywhere on campus, from Southern Methodist University. In She came to Congress in 1992, and has
both inside and outside of buildings. medicine, she was chief psychiatric nurse pushed for funding for research, par-
Grid computing consolidates computing and psychotherapist in the VA hospital ticularly money aimed at closing the
power, so that each individual desktop or in Dallas, at a time when quality medical education gap. She successfully bucked
laptop will have the combined power of care for minorities and the poor was not a the Bush Administration’s efforts to cut
all the computers in the grid. Storage is public priority. National Science Foundation funding for
consolidated for fiber-speed access, and math and science education.
Bode Labode Lester L. Lyles, Frank L. Miller Jr. (U.S. Gregory B. Morrison Rodney O’Neal
Senior Vice President USAF (Ret.) Army, Ret.) Vice President and CIO President and CEO
HDR Engineering, Inc. President & CEO VP, Dell Americas Cox Enterprises, Inc. Delphi Corporation
The Lyles Group Manufacturing
Dell Inc.
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