Geoffrey C. Fox is an internationally recognized expert in the use of parallel architectures and the development of concurrent algorithms. He led a major project from ARPA to develop prototype High Performance Fortran (Fortran90D) compiler, including a High Performance Fortran interpreter that was demonstrated at Supercomputing'93. He is now the PI of another major ARPA project, parallel compiler runtime consortium (PCRC), which aims at developing a common runtime for various high performance languages. He is also a leading proponent for the development of computational science as an academic discipline and a scientific method. His research on parallel computing has focused on development and use of this technology to solve large scale computational problems. Since the advent of Java, he has been promoting a notion of High Performance Java, and he was the Chair of Workshop on Java for Scientific Computing held in Syracuse, Dec., 1996, and he will be co-chairing ACM 1997 Workshop on Java for Science and Engineering Computation to be held in Las Vegas, Nevada, June 21, 1997.