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1995 CRA Distinguished Service Award presented to Randy Katz Randy Katz was selected as the winner of the 1995 CRA Distinguished Service Award. He was honored for the outstanding contributions he made to promote the National Information Infrastructure and the High-Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) program during his tenure with the Advanced Research Projects Agency. Katz was program manager and deputy director in ARPA's Computing Systems Technology Office from January 1993 to December 1994. He participated in Vice President Gore's National Performance Review and the Defense Department's Technology Reinvestment Project. As co-chair of the White House Information Technology Task Force, he was responsible for putting the White House on the Internet and establishing the president@whitehouse.gov E-mail address. He played a major role in developing ARPA's HPCC Implementation Plan, co-chaired the HPCC Information Infrastructure Technology and Applications Working Group and edited the IITA report that defined the research activities and opportunities in the HPCC arena. He was a key player in the effort to develop a comprehensive strategic plan for the National Science and Technology Council's Committee on Information and Communications (CIC) and was instrumental in crafting major portions of the plan. Katz is professor of computer science at the University of California at Berkeley, where he also serves as chair of the MICRO (Microelectronics and Computing Research Opportunities) Program Executive Committee for the State of California. Copyright © 2004 Computing Research Association. All Rights Reserved. Questions? E-mail: webmaster@cra.org.