Marc Andreessen wins Computerworld Smithsonian Leadership Award for Global Integration

Business Wire, May 3, 1995

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 3, 1995--Marc Andreessen, 23, vice president of technology and noted co-founder of Netscape Communications Corp., is the winner of the 1995 Computerworld Smithsonian Information Technology Leadership Award for Global Integration.

The award is sponsored by Science Applications International Corp.'s (SAIC) Health Care Technology Group. Andreessen will be included in the Smithsonian's permanent research collection.

Andreessen will be honored in Washington, at the sixth annual Computerworld Smithsonian Awards (CWSA) dinner on Monday, June 5, at the National Building Museum.

The SAIC Information Technology Leadership Award for Global Integration is conferred annually on an individual or team who has demonstrated vision, foresight and innovation and whose visionary thinking and use of technology have increased the quality, access and availability of information globally. This year, SAIC and CWSA are honoring Andreessen for his work in improving the availability and exchange of information on the Internet.

"As SAIC continues to provide information technology solutions for health care information systems, Marc Andreessen has developed a key tool for accessing information within the medical community," said David A. Cox, SAIC's Health Care Technology Group senior vice president. "Now, through the Internet, medical providers can retrieve research reports, share clinical treatment protocols, as well as provide consults. Mr. Andreessen's breakthrough in making information technology easy to use and access will be significant as health care moves into the 21st century."

While still an undergraduate at the University of Illinois in Champaign, Ill., Andreessen created NCSA Mosaic, a point and click method for navigating the Internet, with a team at the university's National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). The first version of Mosaic was released in March 1993. According to Microtimes, there were an estimated three million users of Mosaic by October 1994.

Andreessen left the university and co-founded Netscape Communications in April 1994, with Dr. James Clark, founder of Silicon Graphics. The company was founded to address the increased demand for commercial-calibre open software and services for the Internet and other global networks. Andreessen oversees the technical direction of Netscape Communications. Today, Netscape Navigator accounts for more than 75 percent of browser traffic on the Internet and is used by more than four million people.

SAIC provides high-technology services and products to government and the private sector in the areas of health care, national security, energy, environment, transportation and systems integration. With annual revenues of $1.9 billion, the employee-owned company and its subsidiaries have 19,000 employees in more than 250 locations worldwide. Founded in 1969, SAIC has just completed its 26th consecutive year of record revenues and earnings.

The CWSA Information Technology Leadership Awards, established in 1990, honor individuals whose values and vision have been crucial to industry development. These awards enhance the Computerworld Smithsonian Awards program, founded in 1989, to search out and publicly honor those men and women who use information technology, across a spectrum of industries, to make our planet a more humane, healthy and cooperative place to live. In celebrating their achievements, the awards help to demystify technology and empower people to use technology as a tool for positive change.

CONTACT: SAIC,

Joan Moore, 703/824-5918

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CWSA,

Helen Shik, 617/478-2344

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Netscape Communications

Kristina Lessing, 415/528-2661