Biographical Information

Carl Cargill

Carl Cargill is Sun's Director of Standards, where he manages Sun's standardization strategies, activities, and portfolio. He has been at this activity (standardization) for nearly twenty five years, and has written two books (Information Technology Standardization: Theory, Process, and Organizations and Open Systems Standardization: A Business Approach ), multiple chapters in other books on the subject, and the "Standards" entry in the Van Nostrand Reinhold Encyclopedia of Computer Science. He was the Editor-in-Chief of "StandardView", ACM's journal of Standardization, and has written scores of articles on the subject of standardization and its practical applications. He has testified several times before Congress, and has been on Office of Technology Assessment and General Accounting Office panels as an expert on standardization.

He has served on the Boards of W3C, Object Management Group, Open Mobile Alliance, The Open GIS Consortium, The Open Group, Enterprise Grid Alliance, ECMA, and OSGi. He has been the Director of Standards at Netscape, and a standards strategist at both Sun and Digital Equipment Corporation. During the rest of his career, has was a product strategist, marketing manager, pricing manager, program manager , and was, at one time, an Air Force intelligence officer.

His interests include Medieval History and the study of magic (as distinguished from quantum mechanics). He holds a BA from the University of Colorado in Medieval European History (1969) and a Masters in the Science of Administration (Management Engineering) from the George Washington University (1975).