On June 25, 1997, the 1997 Fellows convene in Washington, D.C., for a series of morning seminars. At 6 that evening, with host Derek McGinty of National Public Radio as moderator, they will discuss "Global Connections in the 21st Century" and explore social transformations, leadership and individual choice in an information society. This plenary session is in the Baird Auditorium of the National Museum of Natural History, Constitution Avenue at 10th Street NW. (Tickets are available from the Smithsonian Associates.) The next day, the Fellows travel to Charlottesville, VA, where they will conclude their discussions at a private meeting in Monticello, Thomas Jefferson¹s home.

The 1997 Fellows are Eric C. Andersen, Partner, Price Waterhouse; Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the World Wide Web; Danny Hillis, a pioneer of parallel processing; F. William Hoffman, Managing Partner, Price Waterhouse; Anita Jones, Director of Defense Research and Engineering, U.S. Department of Defense; Henning Kagermann, Executive Board Member, SAP AG; Robert Kahn, co-creator of the Internet protocol; Roland Moreno, inventor of the smart card; Jacques Stern, an early pioneer in real-time computing; and Paul Wahl, President and Chief Executive Officer, SAP America, Inc.