John Burdette Gage (born October 9, 1942) was the 21st employee of Sun Microsystems, where he is credited with creating the phrase: "The network is the computer." He served as Vice President and Chief Researcher and Director of the Science Office for Sun Microsystems, until leaving on June 9, 2008 to join Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers as a partner to work on green technologies for global warming; he departed KPCB in 2010 to apply what he had learned "to broader issues in other parts of the world".
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9 October 1942 (age 82) Long Beach, CA
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Zodiac | Libra |
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