Sun Microsystems

Sun Microsystems Inc., (NASDAQ: JAVA) White House Millennium Council, the National Endowment for the Humanities and President Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, Sun provided the technology for the first-ever live audio and video cybercasts from the White House.

The series of eight events hosted in the East Room of the White House were broadcast live on the internet and global satellite television, and provided an opportunity for the public to email questions to the leading minds of the 20th century. Guests included noted historian Professor Bernard Bailyn of Harvard, world-renowned physicist, Stephen Hawking, three poet laureates - Rita Dove, Robert Hass and Robert Pinsky, noted jazz musician Wynton Marsalis and many others.