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Sun Executives, Schwartz, McNealy and Bechtolsheim on 25 years of Innovation:
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Sun's CEO, Jonathan Schwartz Addresses Sun's Twenty Five Years

Sun lives by the motto, "a rising tide lifts all boats." For 25 years we've recognized that open, standards-based technologies create market opportunity. Twelve million people a week join the Internet. This still leaves 75% of the planet on the wrong side of the divide. We're changing that.  Read More

Rising Stars of Sun

Although much has changed since Sun was founded 25 years ago, one thing remains the same: the company continues to attract the best and brightest technical minds. While names like McNealy, Bechtolscheim and Gosling are well known, there's a new younger generation of talent within Sun. Below are brief profiles of some of the rising stars in Sun engineering who are helping to shape Sun's technical innovations for the next 25 years.

Dr. Sheueling Chang

Sheueling is the holder of 12 U.S. patents, mostly in the field of cryptographic technology, and is working with Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC), the next-generation Internet security.

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Robert Drost

Robert holds 36 U.S. patents in the field of electronic circuits and was named one of MIT's Top 100 Technology Innovators of the Year in 2004.

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Dr. Hans Eberle

Hans leads Sun Labs Sedna project that will enable data centers to make thousands of computing connections at tens of terabits-per-second - allowing network and storage architectures to merge into a single, simpler, and more cost-effective infrastructure.

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Dr. Vipul Gupta

Vipul specializes in Internet security protocols for mobile devices and wireless networks that can be used for anything from monitoring climate change and stability of agriculture crops to securing borders for Homeland Security.

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Dr. Ron Ho

For years, Sun has been looking at ways to improve server performance while lowering the amount of electricity required to run them. Ron, recently selected to participate in the National Academy of Engineering's 2006 Frontiers of Engineering program, has helped further Sun’s research in high-speed, low-power circuit technologies.

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