UC Berkeley’s alumni magazine, California, recently issued its Centennial Edition, featuring hundreds of Berkeley luminaries. Sun and Berkeley share some particularly bright stars: turning to p.30 you will see a full page photo of John Gage (Sun’s Chief Researcher and Vice President of the Science Office) with Kim Polese (former Sun Java product manager then co-founder of Marimba). Turning to p.104, there is a photo of Eric Schmidt, who hired me when he was Sun’s Software Manager and left after becoming Sun’s CTO to go to Novell and then Google.
Strangely enough, Sun Founder and notable Berkeley alumnus Bill Joy is only mentioned briefly in this issue. Other Cal profiled graduates who did well in the Silicon Valley include Douglas Engelbart, Gordon Moore, and Andrew Grove.
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