Press Release - Personnel Announcement

President George W. Bush today announced his intention to appoint the following individuals to serve as Members of the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee for two-year terms:

Marc Benioff of California, will serve as Co-Chair

Edward D. Lazowska of Washington, will serve as Co-Chair

Ruzena Bajcsy of Pennsylvania

J. Carter Beese, Jr. of Maryland

Pedro Celis of Washington

Bernard Daines of Washington

Patricia Evans of Virginia

Manuel Fernandez of Florida

Luis Fiallo of Virginia

Jose Marie Griffiths of Pennsylvania

William J. Hannigan of Texas

Jonathan C. Javitt of Maryland

Judith L. Klavans of New York

F. Thomson Leighton of Massachusetts

Harold Mortazavian of California

Randy D. Mott of Texas

Peter M. Neupert of Washington

Eli M. Noam of New York

David A. Patterson of California

Alice G. Quintanilla of New Mexico

Daniel A. Reed of Illinois

Eugene H. Spafford of Indiana

David H. Staelin of Massachusetts

Peter S. Tippett of Virginia

Geoffrey Yang of California

The President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) was established by Executive Order and is chartered by Congress under the High-Performance Computing Act of 1991 (P. L. 102-194) and the Next Generation Internet Act of 1998 (P. L. 105-305). PITAC will help guide the Administration's efforts to accelerate the development and adoption of information technologies vital for American prosperity in the 21st century.

The members of PITAC, who are leading IT experts from industry and academia, will provide the President with expert, independent advice on maintaining America's preeminence in advanced information technologies, including such important elements of the national IT infrastructure as high performance computing, large-scale networking, and high assurance software and systems design.