据美国西蒙斯学院宣布,美国总统克林顿任命该学院的图书馆和情报学研究生院美籍华人陈钦智教授为总统的高性能计算和通讯、信息技术和下一代因特网(Internet)咨询委员会成员。该委员会是克林顿总统于1997年2月11日签署命令成立的,被授权向总统的国家科学和技术咨询委员会(NSTC) According to the announcement of the Simmons Institute, U.S. president Clinton has appointed Chen Chin-chi, a Chinese-American graduate of the College’s Graduate School of Library and Information Science, to the president’s advisory committee on high-performance computing and communications, information technology and the next generation Internet. The Commission, signed by President Clinton on February 11, 1997, was ordered to be made available to the President’s National Science and Technology Advisory Council (NSTC)